view raw text
0 0 GENERAL NOTES OF THE TURF The percentages taken by the totalizator in Australia are 3 per cent for the race courses, 5,-j per cent for government tax and 5 per cent for working expenses, making ISM per cent in all. General manager Matt J. Winn confidently expects the nominations for the Kentucky Derby, which, together with other Kentucky stakes, closed for entries yesterday, to exceed one hundred. Iuder the recent "betting by check" decision by the British legal lords recoveries by welshers of a certain grade are being daily ordered by the English courts against forms of starting price bookmakers.
