232 TRAINING IN INDIA 



Meerut Autumn Meeting, 190 

 Tickets, Bs. 5. 



Name of race 



Horse backed , 



K"o. of tickets 



Signature of backer_ 



Having received a card, the intending backer fills it 

 in according to his fancy, and places it, through the slit, 

 into the partition set apart for the race on which he wishes 

 to invest. This partition is closed on the horses arriving 

 at the starting-post, after which no more cards can be put 

 in. When the day's racing is finished, the amount in- 

 vested on the losers in each event is divided among those 

 who backed the winners of those respective races, after 

 deducting a percentage, usually 10 per cent., for the benefit 

 of the Eace Fund. Let us assume that in one of the 

 races the winner was backed by A for Es. 10, by B for 

 Es. 5, and by C for Es. 15, and that the other horses in 

 the same race had been backed for Es. 170. The total 

 here would be Es. 200, from which to calculate a per- 

 centage of Es. 20 at 10 per cent. Deducting this Es. 20 

 from Es. 150 (amount lost), would leave Es. 150 to be 

 divided between A, B, and C, and they would get respec- 

 tively Es. 50, Es. 25, and Es. 75. 



The totalisatoT is an instrument by which the operator 

 can record, for public view, the number of tickets taken 



