PARI MUTUELS 231 



a paucity of horses in two races, speculation on either, 

 separately, is checked. The chances of all the horses are 

 then combined together, and the buyer of the chance 

 which contained the names of the winners of both events 

 takes the lottery. Let us suppose that two races— the 

 Planter's Cup and Selling Stakes— had each three entries 

 as follows : — 



The combined chances would then be — 



1. Kingcraft and Lurline. 



2. Kingcraft and Butterfly. 

 3 Kingcraft and Brandy. 



4. Exeter and Lurline. 



5. Exeter and Butterfly. 



6. Exeter and Brandy. 



7. Chorister and LurUne. 



8. Chorister and Butterfly. 



9. Chorister and Brandy. 



These nine chances will be drawn for, and auctioned 

 off, in the same manner as if they represented nine different 

 horses entered for one particular race. 



Pari Mutuels and Totalisators. — The primitive 

 way for arranging pari mntuels is as follows : Near the 

 race stand is fixed a long box divided into partitions, each 

 of which has a slit like those in letter-boxes. On each 

 partition is written the name of a race, in the order they 

 are to be run. The person managing the Pari Mutuel is 

 provided with cards printed in the following form : — 



