The sight of the black-on-gold totalizator creeping ever higher is treated with the sort of delight more commonly associated with charity telethons.
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The company traces its history to Autotote, a manufacturer of totalizator systems for parimutuel wagering at racetracks. The history of Autotote dates to 1917, when George Julius founded Automatic Totalisators Limited in Australia to build the totalizator system he had invented. In 1989, United Tote, another leading totalizator company, purchased Autotote Systems, Inc. from Thomas H. Lee Partners.
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The Totalizator, whose operation on South Australian racecourses became legal in 1880, was abolished by the Totalizator Repeal Act of 1883, and the SAJC suffered a financial collapse. The racecourse was mortgaged and the 1885 Adelaide Cup was held at Flemington, Victoria, and was not held for three more years.
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In 1880 use of the totalizator on South Australian racecourses was legalized (or more correctly exempted from certain provisions of the Gaming Act), and Barnard and R. C. Baker introduced a simple totalizator, which was conducted on a large sheet of cardboard in the secretary's office. A commercial totalizator, from Hill & Schinnerling of Melbourne, was trialled in 1879, but appears to have gone no further. After a problem which arose in 1881 when a winning horse, Dan O'Dea's D.O.D., paid out £836/16s to its only backer, a Woolford totalizator (for Adelaide inventor Robert Woolford) was installed. It worked admirably until 1921, when it was replaced, and whose only drawback was that it did not show the grand total invested for each race.
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United Tote is an American company that provides totalizator equipment and services for parimutuel wagering at racetracks. It is owned by Churchill Downs, Inc.
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Bookmaking was declared illegal in New Zealand in 1920. From then until the introduction of the Totalizator Agency Board (TAB) in 1961, betting on racing was only available on-course.
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The Morphettville Racecourse had been resumed by the mortgagee in 1883 after its operator, the South Australian Jockey Club failed financially following the prohibition of the totalizator. Five years later restrictions on the totalizator were eased and Browne (with some input from T. F. Wigley) purchased the property and leased it, with option to purchase, to the reconstituted Club. Browne was then involved with the Victorian Racing Club, and to a lesser extent the Victorian Amateur Turf Club. In 1888 he purchased four yearlings: Carrington (which he brought from South Australia), Tinlander, Loch and Hartlands, which he raced with only moderate success, and appears to have quit the game in 1891.
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It worked admirably until 1921, when it was replaced, and whose only drawback was that it did not show the grand total invested for each race. Another make of totalizator, from Hill & Schinnerling of Melbourne, had been trialled in 1879. The Club continued to lease the course, and to conduct meetings, but did not prosper as expected, largely due to competition from the Adelaide Racing Club. In 1884 the totalizator, which had been given exemption from aspects of the Gaming Act, became illegal again, and operation of the Club was no longer viable, and in desperation the Adelaide Cup meeting was in 1885 run at Flemington.
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The opening gates start the race clock. Unlike horse racing, this action does not signal the totalizator system to end betting; that is done instead by a steward just before the lure is sent on its way. Starting boxes normally hold eight dogs, with some holding nine.
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Tote Board at Hollywood Park, California A tote board (or totalisator/totalizator) is a large numeric or alphanumeric display used to convey information, typically at a race track (to display the odds or payoffs for each horse) or at a telethon (to display the total amount donated to the charitable organization sponsoring the event). The term "tote board" comes from the colloquialism for "totalizator" (or "totalisator"), the name for the automated system which runs parimutuel betting, calculating payoff odds, displaying them, and producing tickets based on incoming bets. Parimutuel systems had used totalisator boards since the 1860s and they were often housed in substantial buildings. However the manual systems often resulted in substantial delays in calculations of clients' payouts.
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This would have meant everyone unloading at Gawler, then walking or somehow finding transport the 5km or so to the course, so Ferry organised the hire of special trains, making a useful profit for the organisers. The Railways declined further requests for this service also. In mid-1883 the Totalizator Repeal Act outlawed use of the machine entirely, which had an immediate dampening effect on racing in Gawler as well as the Adelaide tracks. :In mid-1886 a series of public meetings was held in Adelaide calling for reinstatement of the "tote", and several Bills were submitted by Rowland Rees, the second of which was passed by the Assembly as the Lottery and Gaming Act (Totalizator) in 1887 but rejected by the Council.
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Logo. The Norsk Rikstoto (lit. 'Norwegian National Tote') is a foundation that supervises parimutuel betting on animal racing in Norway. It was established on 24 September 1982 by the Norwegian Trotting Association and the Norwegian Jockey Club to run a totalizator game named V6. Norsk Tipping administered most such games until 1993, when Norsk Rikstoto took over.
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According to this account Wigley and Sylvester John Browne purchased the property and later handed it over at the purchase price to the revived S.A.J.C., formed by Sir Richard Baker and Mr. A. O. Whitington. The facts are a little more involved: the Club and the Racecourse failed in 1883 shortly after the Totalizator (whose profits the Club had come to rely on) was outlawed by Parliament. The Queensland Mortgage Company, who had lent the Club £6000 for improvements, then exerted their rights and resumed the property, which as an unimproved site had been made over to the Club by Thomas Elder on very generous terms. In 1888 Parliament reversed its ban on the Totalizator, and it was only then that Wigley, Browne and (briefly) R. B. Pell stumped up with the £8,000 purchase price.
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Over the course of 1897 discussions were held as to the best grandstand location for superior Show ring views. A totalizator was also planned to be incorporated into the structure to service the trotting events. Tenders for the grandstand were called in February 1901. The grandstand, in length and deep was to be erected on a mound long and deep.
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A lawyer by the profession, graduated from the University of Wrocław. He was employed in PP and Ministry of Communications. Later he worked as a manager for international relations and marketing specialist in a transport company, then he became branch director of the Totalizator Sportowy. At the end of the 80s he belonged to the opposition Movement for Independent Youth.
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This was a location of the Auckland Racing Club. The first recorded meeting was in 1864 when his horse owning neighbours in Howick were invited to compete. In 1889 a totalizator meeting was organized with the help of the Pakuranga Hunt to help celebrate the end of a severe recession. At that time the track was called the East Tamaki Racing Course.
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He won, but it was a Pyrrhic victory, costing both parties thousands of pounds. Thompson's true target may have been the totalizator, not the right of the lessees to charge entrance fees. The council, whose lease contract was found to be wrong in law, promptly rewrote it with allowable charges specified. In mid-1883 the "tote" lost its exempt status, and attendance at race meetings fell away.
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Retrieved 3 May 2016. Carey was a member of the Totalizator Agency Board, the Gold Coast Turf Club, and the Gold Coast Branch of the Red Cross. Also a committee member of the Gold Coast Rugby League, Carey was President of the Gold Coast Senior Citizens Social Club, the Queensland Retail Traders' Association, and the Federal President of the Master Grocers and Storekeepers' Association.
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Renovation of south stand and floodlights masts dismantling took place in 1995 year. Construction of the new main stand started in 1996. It was financed by the joint office of the City of Kraków and Totalizator Sportowy. Opening of the new grandstand (sectors A and B, as well as VIP sector) took place in March 1998 during the league match between Wisła and GKS Katowice.
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Pirron Yallock was served by the Pirron Yallock railway station on the Warrnambool railway line, until the station was closed in 1981. Pirron Yaloak Post Office opened on 12 July 1872, was renamed Pirron Yallock on 21 June 1965, and closed on 31 October 1973. The Pirron Yallock racecourse was the first place in Victoria to legally operate a totalizator, at the race meeting on 2 May 1931.
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He was largely responsible for the Constitution Amendment Act, which reduced the number of parliamentarians. After losing his seat in the House of Assembly, possibly due to his longstanding fight against the totalizator (he succeeded in having it outlawed for three years), Gilbert twice contested the Central seat in the Legislative Council, but was unsuccessful. When Gilbert left parliament in 1906 he was the "Father of the House".
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Arlington was the first track to install a public-address system and employed the pioneering race caller Clem McCarthy to describe the action. It added the first electric totalizator which allowed a credible tote board and decreased time between races, in 1933. In 1936 it added a photo finish camera. It introduced the first electric starting gate in 1940 and the largest closed circuit TV system in all of sports in 1967.
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Barnard successfully raced several horses, notably Totalizator, which won the Adelaide Cup in 1881, ridden by D. Bowes and trained by John Hill (who had also prepared the second and third place winners). Barnard considered that The Broker was the best horse he ever owned, and he won several good races with him. He was for a time owner of The Assyrian, but sold him, only to see him subsequently win the 1882 Melbourne Cup.
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The next day, the Rafa Race Meeting took place, complete with trophies ordered from Cairo, and a printed programme. These races, complete with an enclosed paddock, totalizator, jumps, and a marked course, were contested by Yeomanry, Australian and New Zealand horses and riders.Hill 1978 pp. 100–1 On 22 March, all roads and tracks were reconnoitred as far as Deir el Belah and allotted to the different formations, and preliminary moves towards Gaza were begun.
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The "tote" was a success but the S.A.J.C. did not prosper as expected, largely due to competition from the Adelaide Racing Club. Then in 1883 Parliament passed the Totalizator Repeal Act, which had the immediate effect of making South Australian racecourses much less profitable. The Club continued to lease the course, and to conduct meetings, but with reduced prizes, patronage and profits. This coincided with the severe South Australian drought of 1884–1886 and a consequent financial downturn.
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One of the few contemporary newspaper articles not hostile to Ferry and Blackler. In late 1882 Blackler, Ferry and William Gordon purchased "Evanston", the training ground of James Jenkins on the outskirts of Gawler, at a cost of £5,000, with the intention of making it into the Gawler Racecourse, and lost no time in agitating for a Racing Club to be formed along the lines of the A.R.C. They soon had a grandstand built. This venture could be seen as a way of circumventing the limit of three meetings per year at which the totalizator could be used at the Old Course, but stymied by the Totalizator Repeal Act of 1883. In 1885 a consortium of businessmen led by W. Rounsevell, keen to improve the profitability of the Morphettville course, which included adding extra facilities like a steeplechase course and a plumpton (coursing track), and closing down the "Old Course", offered to purchase the lease from Ferry and Blackler. They could not however countenance Ferry's asking price of ₤5000.
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A totalizator was installed and bookmakers were charged 10 guineas to operate on the grounds. A Melbourne bookmaker, Joe "Leviathan" Thompson, refused to pay this charge, and sued the lessees for being refused admission. Thompson won the case, tried by Mr. Justice Boucaut. The Council had the right, by Act of Parliament, to specify in the lease under what conditions persons could be admitted, but had failed to do so, and this was the point that brought Blackler and Ferry undone.
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In July 1889 Wigley and Browne placed the racecourse on the market in order to close the partnership; it was purchased by Browne for £9,400. The lease period was extended by five years in 1893 but by March 1895, thanks to the totalizator, the Club was able to own the racecourse in fee simple. Wigley served as starter for the S.A.J.C. many times, though distrusted by some for his dual role as starter and owner. From 1914 to 1925 he served as stipendiary steward.
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McKrell read a question and people in the studio audience then voted for the celebrity they believed could answer the question correctly. After the voting took place, a totalizator set odds on each celebrity. The celebrity who had the greatest vote of confidence from the audience was dubbed the "favorite" and had the lowest odds, frequently 1:1 (even money) or 2:1. A celebrity who had few or no audience votes was dubbed the "long shot" and had the highest odds, up to 99:1.
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Thompson's true target may have been the totalizator, not the right of the lessees to charge entrance fees. The council, whose lease contract was found to be wrong in law, rewrote it with allowable charges specified. Between 1880 and December 1881 three of the lessees dropped out for various reasons, leaving only Blackler and Ferry, who were joined by Blackler's son, W. A. Blackler. Several members, alarmed at the club's ballooning financial liability, resigned from the committee, leaving it short of the quorum necessary to appoint replacements, and the Club had to be re-formed.
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Other entertainments included races between hunting dogs and a kangaroo, which had been specially trained for the purpose. On one occasion the 'roo was saved from a probable mauling by Seth on his fractious jumper Sweep, in a remarkable feat of horsemanship. On 11 October 1888, aware that the totalizator would soon become legal, a meeting of interested sportsmen held at the Globe Hotel resolved to re-form the Club once more. A steering committee consisting of Ebenezer Ward, M.P., J. MacDonald, and Samuel James Whitmore was formed.
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He was elected to the seat of Port Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly and sat from 19 March 1887 to 14 April 1893. In his campaign speech Hopkins showed himself in favor of the Totalizator (and blamed the then depression on its discontinuance; that and granting financial aid to local Councils and Corporations, and the Licensing Bench not allowing licences). The powers of the Licensing Bench should be transferred to Councils. He would lease, not sell, Crown lands; he would have protective duties, as high as 25 per cent.
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In late 1879 the totalizator was made legal (or more precisely exempt from provisions of the Gaming Act of 1875) on South Australian racecourses, and Ferry purchased at the cost of £300 a "box tote", which he leased to the Club, at some profit to himself if the machine's legal status did not change. Bookmakers were charged 10 guineas to operate on the grounds. A Melbourne "bookie", Joe "Leviathan" Thompson, refused to pay this charge, and sued the lessees for being refused admission. He won, but it was a Pyrrhic victory, costing both parties thousands of pounds.
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His paternal grandfather, Charles A. Munn, made a name for himself as an owner of the American Totalizator Company, while his paternal grandmother was Mary Astor Paul, one of many heirs to the Drexel banking fortune of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. Munn's father, Charles A. Munn, Jr., died in 1957 of ALS at the age of 42, while his only sister was killed in an accident in 1952, before he was born. Munn's 1982 marriage to Martha Brecht ended in separation in 1990 and divorce in 1992. Munn's is currently separated from his second wife, conservation biologist Mariana Valqui.
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The Company then sought from Sir Thomas Elder, and received, conversion of the peppercorn rental to freehold purchase of the Morphettville land so they had the ability to borrow against the value of the land. The first race meeting at Morphettville was held on 23 September 1875. Barnard and Sir R. C. Baker introduced a totalizator, which was conducted on a large sheet of cardboard in the secretary's office, the amounts invested being posted opposite the names of the horses. In 1881 the horse D.O.D. (previously Alarm), belonging to and named for Dan O'Dea, won the Goodwood Handicap, and paid the sensational dividend of £836/16s.
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Racing by the S.A.J.C. was revived at Morphettville in 1889 after the right to use the totalizator had been granted by Parliament. Browne leased the course to the S.A.J.C. until 1895 when the freehold was acquired by Sir R. C. Baker, W. B. Rounsevell, William Pile, H. Chambers, P. F. Bonnin, Fred Ayers (son of Henry Ayers), and J. A. Ellery,James Albert Ellery (1844–1905) was father of T. G. Ellery (1872–1923) town clerk of Adelaide. He was a member of both the SAJC and ARC, later publican of Mac's Hotel, Mount Gambier who constituted the S.A.J.C. committee, so at last the course was the property of the S.A.J.C.
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Pirron Yallock had an adjacent racecourse and the station was quite busy at race times with trains conveying racegoers to these events with "special" race trains operating from Ballarat and Melbourne - Pirron Yallock had the first Victorian "Totalizator" outside Melbourne. There were locomotive servicing facilities - a locomotive watering tower for steam locomotives remains on site. A station masters residence was located in the precinct and as gangers and trackworkers were employed and also permanently located at Pirron Yallock, there were also a number of railway houses. Passengers desiring to join a train after the officer in charge had ceased duties were required to exhibit the red flag during daylight or light a red lamp in darkness to stop the train and obtain tickets from the guard.
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Occasionally other handicap races with large fields (numbers of runners) receive the same treatment from various bookmakers, especially if they are sponsoring the race. The rough equivalent of the each-way in North America is the across the board (win/place/show) or win/place bet, where equal bets on a horse are made to win, place, and show (or just win and place). Each portion is treated by the totalizator as a separate bet, so an across-the-board bet is merely a convenience for bettors and parimutuel clerks. For instance, if a $2 across-the-board bet (total outlay of $6) were staked on a horse which finished second, paying $4.20 to place and $3.00 to show, the bettor would receive $7.20 on what is essentially a $6 wager.
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When the starter is satisfied that all horses are in place and ready to start the race, he presses a button, cutting the electric current, simultaneously opening the front stall doors, ringing a loud bell, and sending a signal to the totalizator system that the race is begun and no more bets should be accepted. Puett's gate was first used at Exhibition Park in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1939, though the management of Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California claims that their track was the first to use Puett's gate.BayMeadows.com: Bay Meadows history , accessed 2008-06-06] By the end of 1940, virtually all major race tracks in the United States used Puett gates. Clay Puett began another company, True Center Gate, in 1958 based in Phoenix, Arizona.
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One of the few contemporary newspaper articles not hostile to Ferry and Blackler. In mid-1883 the totalizator became illegal again, resulting in reduced attendance at the Adelaide's racetracks; then South Australia entered a period of economic downturn, brought about by the drought of 1884–1886, and the racing industry suffered further; the A.R.C. disproportionately so, and Blackler felt the time was ripe to cut their losses, and outlined a plan whereby the Council would resume the course and recompense the partners, as they were keen to extend Halifax Street through the Parklands, cutting the "Old Course" in two. Ferry refused to co-operate, and there began the split between the two partners, which became quite bitter, at times to the point of farce. :At the Globe Hotel one day, Blackler reacted to something Ferry said by threatening to punch his face.
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In 1888 Parliament reversed its ban on the Totalizator. The property was then purchased for £8,000 by T. F. Wigley, R. B. Pell,Reginald Bradford "Reg" Pell (c. 1860 – 1 July 1916), second son of Professor Pell of Sydney University, was handicapper in Broken Hill then for W.A.T.C. in Perth. and Sylvester Browne. Browne subsequently purchased Pell's interest and in July 1889 Wigley and Browne placed the racecourse on the market in order to close the partnership; it was purchased by Browne. A. O. Whitington, who had previously had a supervisory role at race meetings, and whose employers John and William Pile were prominent racegoers, was approached by T. F. Wigley to help revive the Club, and Whitington convened a meeting in the arbitration room of the Stock Exchange in Pirie street on 19 September 1888, presided by Sir Richard Baker.
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Aerial view of the track in 2002 prior to demolition Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse was the longest continually operating thoroughbred racetrack in California—having been founded on November 13, 1934—until its closure on August 17, 2008. The innovative William P. Kyne introduced pari-mutuel wagering, the popular Daily Double, the first all- enclosed starting gate, the totalizator board and the photo-finish camera at Bay Meadows. Prior to the track's closure, the Bay Meadows Handicap had been the longest continually run stakes event in California, having been started in 1934. Seabiscuit won this race twice: 1937 and 1938. The track was allowed to remain open during World War II because of its agreement to give 92% of its profits towards the war effort. The track generated more than $4 million for War Relief projects during the war years.
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The American Totalisator Company, formally known today as AmTote International (often referred to as AmTote), specializes in totalisator equipment used to control parimutuel betting at horse racing, greyhound racing, and jai-alai facilities. The company was founded by Harry L. Straus, whose interest in a fairer system of calculating and displaying odds and payouts on parimutuel betting came after an incident in 1927 at a Maryland racetrack, when a horse listed at 12:1 odds won, but paid off at 4:1. Straus' new company installed its first equipment at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, which displayed odds and payouts on illuminated boards, now known as "tote boards". In 1933, American Totalisator installed its first electro-mechanical tote system at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Strauss patents 2,179,698 issued 11/14/39 and 2,182,875, issued 12/12/39 were a platform to build AmTote's growth as the once dominant provider of totalizator solutions in North America.
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