Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — RACES ONLY FOR THE SPORT [ARTICLE]

RACES ONLY FOR THE SPORT

New Zealand Abolishes Proprietary Tracks and Adopts Pari-Mutuels— Results at Canterbury. New Zealand has abolished proprietary race tracks, besides banishing the bookmakers. All racing dubs there exist exclusively for the furtherance of the sport, the proprietary element, with its stockholders eager for fat dividends, having been eliminated for the good of the turf. All profits now go to increase the purses and stakes and to Improve the tracks. Under these conditions the Canterbury Jockey club this year 'distributed SIBI,BOO in prizes at a ten-day meeting. The average was $3,270 to a race. Through the medium of the pari-mutuel, or totalizer, $1,874,610 was wagered on the tracks at this meeting. “ i i v in—