Uncashed Mutuel Tickets Of 31,025 at N.Y. Tracks, Daily Racing Form, 1958-05-07

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Uncashed Mutuel Tickets Of 331025 at NY Tracks TracksALBANY ALBANY May 6 Bettors at New York race tracks last year broke all records for forgetfulness and carelessness tossing raway winning parimutuel tickets worth 331025 It was an alltime high windfall for the state which cashes the tickets for itself when bettors fail to enter a claim by March 1 1State State tax commissioner George M Brag alini said that in the 18 years parimutuel betting has been conducted in New York j the total of uncashed winning tickets has 1 risen to 3840302 Hhe previous record i high for any season was the 1953 total of 295970 The payoff of 1957 uncashed winners included 157157 from the states three running tracks and 173867 from seven harness tracks


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