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Originally Posted by justindew

I'm not sure this is relevant, but I was a mutuel clerk in college, and we were SUPPOSED to ask everyone who ever cashed a ticket "Do you have any identical tickets to cash?" But we never did, and the track knew we never did, and they didn't really care.

It's exactly relevant. The letter of the law says that it is, in fact, the aggregate that matters, and technically if one has multiple tickets they need to be cashed and bunched together. However, tracks have looked the other way. For some reason, that hasn't been explained yet, NYRA is now batching these bets.

I don't care about the new signers it will generate, but when I end up with withholding because of the batching, which will certainly happen, I am going to be pissed. However, it's only an immediate inconvenience.

The reality is that this further underscores the necessity to raise the withholding threshhold......something the NTRA should have made a priority, and achieved, years ago.