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AMERICAN SPORTING MANUAL. The American Sporting Manual of 1903 contains all racing records at large, revissd and complete up to the end of 1902 ; five handicapping systems with directions for their practical application, a table showing how to compute bookmaking percentages, track records of all the recognized tracks of the country, the western and eastern scale of weights, tables showing the comparative speed of tracks, the racing statistics of 1902. giving amounts won by owners and horses and jockey record, a complete list of pugilistic contests of 1902 of any consequence, trotting and pacing records at all distances and a list of the now 2:15 trotters of 1932. Also a complete record of performances at all styles of billiards.
