Word: pari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wonderland is the Saratoga of U.S. dog tracks. Compared to London's famed White City track, where crowds of 90,000 are not uncommon, it is only a pup. But of America's 40-odd legalized courses, Wonderland is by far the biggest and most profitable. Its pari-mutuel handle for one night often exceeds the totals of Florida's nine tracks. Last summer, in 100 race nights, nearly $20,000,000 was bet at Wonderland...
...Suburban Day at Belmont, New York racing fans wagered $2,699,153, a world's record. On Belmont Day, they bet only $1,731,155. One reason: Count Fleet went to the post at odds of about 1-to-200. To pay off the legal pari-mutuel minimum of 1-to-20 ($2.10 for $2), the track had to shell...
Camacho gave Pagliai not only a license for pari-mutuel gambling but also a ten-year renewable concession on 180 acres of Government property 15 minutes from the heart of Mexico City. In return, Pagliai's Jockey Club de la Ciudad de Mexico, operators of the track, promised the Mexican Army ten thoroughbreds every year there is racing at the Hipódromo de las Américas...
There were 17,000 punters at Winnipeg's Polo Park one afternoon last week. But when the bugle called six of Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...
...Picked up some small change by taxes on pari-mutuel betting, jukeboxes...