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...jockeys too small to serve in the Army. The five-day week will encourage workers with bulging pay envelopes to get acquainted with the "sport of kings." Last week at New York's Jamaica race track, in suburban Long Island, fans set a world's record for pari-mutuel bets. In the first seven days of its spring meeting, $5,786,152 was wagered-an average...
...after an intermission of nearly 50 years, New Jersey racing approaches the starting gate once more. A year ago, the citizens voted to legalize pari-mutuel betting, and last week the State Racing Commission, after five months' deliberation, sanctioned Jersey's first horse park since betting was outlawed in 1893. True to tradition, the operators of Jersey's first 20th-century race track will be the Monmouth Park Racing Association-a group headed by Horse Fancier Amory Lawrence Haskell, M.F.H., on whose Red Bank estate the tony Monmouth County Steeplechase is held each fall...
...Thus flagrantly violating pari-mutuel etiquette, which in the interest of speed and accuracy at the tellers' windows demands that betters call their bets by the horse's number, not name. Nevertheless...
...spectators, who jampacked Jamaica's old stands, had poured $821,946 into the machines. It was the largest crowd Jamaica had ever seen and it was a larger handle than even Senator Dunnigan had hoped for. Thus, with a bang, pari-mutuel betting invaded New York race tracks, for years the last stronghold of the bookmaker. Jubilant over an $800,000 handle on a raw-cold Monday, New York Statesmen had visions of a $100,000,000 turnover before the racing season ends, Nov. 2. Envious of the State's share of the gravy (5% of the turnover...
...York's Jamaica race track one day last week State Senator John J. Dunnigan swaggered up to a freshly painted pari-mutuel window, loudly & proudly proclaimed: "Much time has passed since I began my fight for pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks, so I am purchasing the first $2 ticket on Time Passes...