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RACING FIGURES OF 1897 According to advance sheets from Goodwins Godwin 8896 races were run in this country and Canada in 1897 of which 8179 were in the United States and 717 in Canada The money earned by horsos horses in the United States was the grand total of 2946042 in stakes and purses distributed as follows as to tracks No of Amount Tracks Days Distributed DistributedSt Distributed St Louis Ill 234841 234841Pacific Pacific Coast Jockoy Jockey Club 87 228315 228315California California Jockey Club 86 219800 219800Harlem Harlem 89 218650 218650Coney Coney Island 24 205780 205780Brooklyn Brooklyn 24 203000 203000MorrisPark MorrisPark Morris 23 155400 155400Crescent Crescent City Jockey Club 98 152100 152100Latonia Latonia Antonia 55 127250 127250Brighton Brighton Beach 25 124700 124700Newport Newport Ky 73 112700 112700Cincinnati Cincinnati 44 94600 94600Saratoga Saratoga 22 74800 74800Butte Butte Jockey Club 33 54800 54800Aqueduct Aqueduct 25 52400 52400Nashville Nashville 41 51350 51350Detroit Detroit Jockey Club 23 50000 50000Memphis Memphis 19 49500 49500Louisville Louisville 12 48750 48750Ingalls Ingalls Finals Park 30 35100 35100Highland Highland Park 24 38950 Washington 38950Washington Jockey Club 20 35350 35350Anaconda Anaconda Mont 25 35250 35250Lakeside Lakeside 13 30400 30400Lexington Lexington 28 29200 29200Forsyth Forsyth Forsythia 15 24100 24100Sheffield Sheffield 15 23600 23600Baltimore Baltimore 12 19100 19100Sacramento Sacramento 6 10400 10400Little Little Rock Jockey Club 7 9100 9100Louisiana Louisiana Jockey Club 6 8900 8900Miscellaneous Miscellaneous 187836 187836Total Total 2946042 2946042The The races run were divided as follows in tha than matter of distances No of No of Distances Races Distances Races 2 furlongs 33 1 mile and 70 yards 93 93600yards 600yards 1 1 mile and 100 yards 1 1Sfurlongs Sfurlongs Furlongs 69 ll16miles 361 3 12 furlongs 24 1 18 miles 210 2104furlongs 4furlongs 402 1 316 miles 21 4 12 furlongs 331 114 miles 95 5 furlongs 1032 1 13 miles 8 5 12 furlongs 568 112 miles 22 Futurity 22Futurity course 16 1 58 miles 2 6 furlongs 1760 134 miles 5 5612furlongs 612furlongs 222 2 miles 10 10About About 7 furlongs 720 2 14 miles 2 2712furlongs 712furlongs 66 2 12 12miles miles 1 1Imile Imile Simile 1294 4 miles 3 1 mile and 20 yards 57 Heat races 560 1 mile and 50 yards 12 12Total Total flat races 8017 Over 8017Over hurdles 106 Steeplechases 106Steeplechases 56 56Grand Grand total 8179 8179As As a racing center New York naturally con ¬ tributed tribute the greatest sum the aggregate at Sheepshead Shepherd Bay Gravesend Graves Morris Park Brighton Beach and Aqueduct being 741280 San Francisco coming second with 448115 Cincinnati third with 334550 and Chicago fourth with 331850 To the St Louis Fair Grounds track belongs the distinction of lead ¬ ing King all single tracks with 234841 234841The The added money in purses and stakes shows an increase of over 100000 in 1896 St Louis raced the most days and distributed the largest amount of money but the highest average went to the Coney Island Jockoy Jockey Club at Sheeps Seeps ¬ head Bay with the Brooklyn Jockey Club a close second
