Tote board
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A tote board is a numeric or alphanumeric display used to convey information, typically at a race track or at a telethon.
Tote Board at Hollywood Park, California
Behind the betting windows at Ascot racetrack, Australia February 1939
Parimutuel betting
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Parimutuel betting, or pool betting, is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool, taxes and the house-take are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by
Tote board
…the event). The term "tote board" comes from the colloquialism for "totalizator" (or "totalisator"), the name for the automated system which runs parimutuel betting, calculating payoff odds, displaying them, and producing tickets based on incoming bets. Parimutuel systems had used totalisator boards since the 1860s…
Betting on the Favorite, an 1870 engraving