Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-20

hour intervals, and the business done
| at the books continues for nearly all
that time, allowance being made for
the race to be run, the weighing in
and the official calculations to deter
mine the amount to be paid for the
| winning tickets. There are sets of
| tickets prepared for each race,
stamped with the number of the dis
| tributieg book, the number of each
| ticket in progression, as well as bear
| ing the number of the horse and the
value, whether 1of, 20f., 100f., or 500f.
when only three horses are entered
| in Il race only tickets for the winner
are paid. When four and up to and
| Including seven horses are entered, the
parimutuel pays for the winner and
second horse. When eight or more
horses run, the first, second and third,
are officially placed and paid upon.
1t has not seemed worth while here
| to explain the pari-mutuel system
concerning placed horses, but the cal
culations are made much in the same
manner as for the winner.
THE law provides for the deduction
of per cent. from the receipts of the
Partisan societies and Deauville. CThe
provincial societies in France work
under a somewhat different regime
This per cent. is divided in the fol-
lowing manner:
For breeding purposes tto the Min
lister of Agriculture, the stud and en-
enlargement of breeding), per cent. /;
for works of charity, per cent. for
hN0iana | racing
cieties to cover their expenses in the
exploitation of this method of betting,
etc, per cent
Under the law the amounts deduct
ed from the gross receipts have gone
on regularly increasing. During the
period between the years 1891 and 1912
the one per cent. for the breeding pur-
poses, which is under the direction of
| the Minister of Agriculture, has pro-
duced 55,S94, LEAF ($11,17S, $500. Double
| the amount or over Ill 900, 000f
| t$22, 200,000), has been devoted to pub
| lie charity.
Admitting for a moment the Puri
| tan statement that betting is an evil
| a fact which the French nation is per-
haps perfectly willing to grant, France
!
passion for play is human quality
| which even the Christian Church has
not been able to eliminate from man
and so has set to work to control il
| legally and use it for the dignified adj
vantage of the nation
| The statistics which follow were
| furnished by Mr.. Gould:
| Deducted from the operations of tht
pari-mutuel for breeding purposes
| 1891 to 1891 inclusive, amounted tC
55,s99, l54f., or about sl1,179,S31.
The list of stations owned by the
| French Government, according to tn,
report of January /. 1911, totals 345I
head. divided into thoroughbreds, $40
of which PSI are English. 100 Arai
and 215 Anglo Arab: halfbred. 2202
! and trace, 706. These stations ar,
| distributed among the % breeding es.
Establishments all over France, as wei
as to the permanent station at Ajaccio
! Concerning races regulated by the
! Racing Code, 1912. there are 444 hippo
dromes, having SIC racing days ant
offering 2492 prizes, totaling 10,ST9,
PSF, or about $2175.s71.
The number of horses taking part il
fiat racing in France in 1912 includes
2375 English thoroughbreds, of which
725 We're two years old, 1893 tire,
years odd, 352 four years old. ia fivs
years old and 147 six or more years
old, as well as 10l Arab and Anglo.
Arab thoroughbreds. ga halfbreds o
all kinds and 155 hack. hunters an,
| army horses, or total of 1852 head
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