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Last week, with a legislative Donnybrook impending over New York's newly voted pari-mutuel system, Manhattan turf writers had plenty to write about...
...pari-mutuel windows of U. S. race tracks, in 17 of the 18 States where machines handle horse-race betting,* a total of $297,633,113 changed hands. It was $20,000,000 more than last year...
...obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...
...hours later Claude Elkins felt "sort of cold and sticky all over." In his hand was a telegram informing him that he was the only ticket holder of the winning combination, that he had won the whole pool of $10,772.40-largest pari-mutuel payoff in the history of U. S. horse racing...
...bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will net the State $20,000,000 a year, its proponents say, in addition to the $2,500,000 the State now receives from pari-mutuel wagering at its five tracks...