totalizator

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The British machine, called a "totalizator," has already been nationally nicknamed "The Tote."

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The fancier tracks have clubs where a $10 membership buys such amenities as table service, private totalizator windows, attendants to place bets and pick up winnings.

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They offered pre-race odds of 66 to 1, and the Epsom Downs totalizator sent Psidium off at 90 to 1.

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Today, with respectable Boston names on its board of directors and a totalizator to compute and publicly quote the odds, there is no tampering with greyhounds, no back-room rigging of the payoff.

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The Shap�s and one or two of the leading monks attended race-meetings and gymkanas, put their money on the totalizator, and seemed to enjoy their day out.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund