WIN-AND PLACE “TOTE"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 8

WIN-AND PLACE “TOTE"

ELLERSLIE INSTALLATION ALTERATION BY NEXT SUMMER? [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. The electric totalisator at Ellerslie is to be altered to make it operable as a win-and-place machine. This decision was announced after a meeting of the committee of the Auckland Racing Club. With such a change in view, lhe club already has certain necessary machinery, but to make it effective, additional parts will need to be obtained from overseas, and the club’s expert advisers indicate that it will not. be possible to have the alterations completed before next summer, the Christ-mas-New Year meeting. The work will be put in hand forthwith. The first club to utilise the win-and-place method of betting was the Taranaki Jockey Club, at its Christmas meeting in 1932. Many racing bodies followed, and in the following year the Auckland Racing Club held its autumn, winter, July, spring, and sum-

mer meetings under that system. Chiefly, it was thought, because of the small fields and the restricted betting at that period, the system did not become popular with large numbers ol Ellerslie patrons, and after a full year's trial the club reverted to the single-pool method, which it has maintained.