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FOOD FOR FOLLOWERS OF FAVORITES. Favorites gave a more satisfactory account of themselves at Kenilworth this summer than they dld a year ago, yet the percentage of winning first choices was about three points below normal, and there were altogether too many odds-on propositions to please the general public. Of the 1S1 races decided, 70 were won by first choices 11 per cent. Second choices won 37 and third choices and outsiders accounted for the remaining 75 races. There were 4S odds-on choices, of which 33 won. The shortest price of the meeting was 1 to 15, Preen, July 3, when he romped away from Irene A. The longest price was 50 to 1, Louis Boederer, Thursday last. There was no day on which all the favorites were defeated, and likewise no day on which all of them won, five out of six, July 15, being the best day. This showing was so superior to that at the recent Latonia meeting that it must have been refreshing to the followers of form who turned their attention to the Buffalo track during the last week. At Latonia favorites won only 4S of the 1S7 races won 20 per cent. There were only 27 odds-on choices at that meeting, but thirteen of them were defeated. There were six days on which 110 favorite won. The "cinch players" had the lime of their lives to keep their heads above water, and it will be many a moon before they forget the oxeriences or tliose thirty days from June 10 to July 13. The showing at Windsor, though the ring was syndicated, was bettor than at Latonia. During the twenty-live days from Juno 15 to July 13, 159 races wore run, and 00 first choices 30 per cent won. There was no day on which no favorite won. The number of odds-on favorites was 22, and just half of them were defeated. In this case, however, the odds-on choices were rather more the favorites of the layers than of the public. Following is the record for all meetings closed this year: so : 2 c H and 9!. 31 ll 95- Tracks. . eg 03 as o 2 Kn J?" 5- en . co 0 Oakland SOI 321 177 390 .30 Ascot Park 100 10S OS 170 .42 Fair Grounds 23S 102 iil S5 .43 City Park 335 117 72 110 .41 Oaklawn 2SS 114 03 111 .40 New Louisiana 12 20 S 14 .IS Benning los 47 10 42 .44 Aqueduct 00 25 11 24 .42 Pimlico 87 33 21 33 .38 Jamaica JS 33 12 23 .40 Lexington 42 11 11 20 .20 Churchill Downs ...1S3 GO 35 SS .33 Belmont Park 54 21 12 21 .30 Toronto S5 37 IS 30 .44 Gravesentl 38 12 4 22 .32 Belmont Park ...... 55 21 11 23 .38 Hamilton is 34 7 27 .50 Montreal 09 27 IS 24 .30 Gravesentl 70 30 10 30 .31 Latonia 1S7 4S 53 SO .20 Buffalo 1S4 70 37 75 .41 Windsor 150 GO 37 02 .30 Sheepshead Bay ...107 37 22 4S .35 t
