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ROYAL ASCOT. When it is asserted that the Ascot meeting is the most richly endowed in the matter of added money-of any meeting in the world the statement is unassailable. As a matter of interest to American sportsmen, appended is a digest of the net amount competed for in each race during the four days at the memorable reunion held recently, says an eastern exchange: TUESDAY. Added Full Winner money. value, receives. m 1 Q. , Gold Vase.... 500 820 700 Coventry Stakes 1,000 2,060 1,741 fet Stakes...... ... 2,000 2,475 1 755 iorty-fifth Biennial 500 1,360 1 214 Prince of Wales Stakes. 1,000 2,555 2 00S Forty-eighth Triennial.. 500 880 756 6,000 10,690 8,8"41 WEDNESDAT. Visitors Handicap... 350 595 515 Forty-fourth Biennial... 500 1,250 1 115 Royal Hunt Cup 2,000 2,790 2,370 Fern Hill Stakes. 300 780 710 Coronation Stakes 300 3,700 3,200 Fiftieth Triennial 500 825 717 Ascot Derby 500 1,675 1,325 4,450 11,615 9,952 THUBSDAY. Rous Memorial Stakes.. 1,000 1,475 1,365 11 Aged Stakes 300 575 470 Gold Cup 4,000 4,680 3,660 New Stakes...... 1,000 2,150 1,967 fortieth New Biennial.. 500 1,050 985 St. James Palace Stakes 300 3,000 2,500 Thirty-ninth New Biennial 500 955 890 7,600 13,885 11,837 FRIDAY. Ascot High Weight Stake 300 695 645 Alexandria Plate 1,500 2,100 1,600 Wprkingham Stakes 500 1,170 1,070 Windsor Castle Stakes.. 300 1,040 940 Hardwicke Stakes ...... 2,000 2,770 2,500 Kings Stand Stakes 800 1,150 1,000 49th Triennial Stakes.... 500 885 625 5,900 9,810 8,380 Total for four days.... 23,950 46,000 39,010 In other words, in four days the Ascot meeting saw the enormous sum of 46,000 divided among the successful owners, of which 23,950 was added money, an average of 5,987 per day. Reduced to American money, this means about 0,000 per day in added money, or an average of ,300 per race. They are able to do this at Ascot because of the very much larger revenue that is earned on the English racecourses from the standpoint of attendance than we have on the average. The admission fees and other charges on all English racecourses as much as 0 per day, except where the people have free access, and in which there are no accommodations in the fields are so much larger than in America that there really ought to be no surprise expressed at the Ascot statement.
