[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with
interest the correspondence in the Spectator on the totalisator. But I have seen no reference to the fact that the institution or apparatus, whichever it is, is in operation in England.
At the last four race meetings I have attended, the totalisator has been in operation. The races I refer to were the point-to-point steeplechases of the hunts in one of the Home Counties, where the totalisator is in operation and is advertised as an attraction to the races in the local Press. One of my recollections of an afternoon this spring is hearing a heated argument among my young friends and relations : " Shall we go to the Tote ' or the Bookies ' ? " If any of your readers who are specially interested in furthering the introduction of a rational means of betting will ask for information from the secretaries of the various hunts, I am sure they would obtain useful information.-4 am,
Sir, &c., SEXAGENARIAN.
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