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CHANGED ENGLISH RACING CUSTOMS. All-the-year-round racing Is not singular more now to England than to the United States. Time was, and within the memory of comparatively young men, when racing did not go on in England during November, December, January and February, but the coming of the gate-money meetings, of Kempton and Sandown Park changed all that, and now there Is racing every day in the year, Sundays excepted, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and frequently several meetings going on simultaneously, the strictly winter months being mainly given over to hurdle racing and steeplechasing.
