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BETTING POOL [1 record]

Record 1 1993-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lotteries
CONT

The Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency sub-activity protects the wagering public from fraudulent practices by licensing pari-mutuel betting at race tracks, ensuring the integrity of the pari-mutuel betting system through on-site supervision, establishing the scale of percentages racing associations may deduct and retain from betting pools, providing race surveillance, photo-finish and equine drug-testing services and by conducting analyses in support of these functions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Loteries
OBS

Expression utilisée à Blue Bonnet pour désigner le total des mises sur un cheval donné; les gains des parieurs sont répartis selon des normes très précises.

Spanish

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