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FOOD FOR FOLLOWERS OF FAVORITES. Not including the meetings now on at Brighton Bench, Fort Erie and Seattle, 4,900 races have been run at the recognized tracks in the United States and Canada tlds year. First choices have won 1.51S, second choices SI. J and outsiders 2,509. Tims only 31 per cent, of the first choices, about thirteen points below the normal percentage, have won. The average price for these winning first choices, closing odds only figured, was twenty-seven to twenty and for the winning second choices thirty-one to ten. The average prices by tracks is given below: 1st Choices 2d Choices Races Ave. Races Ave. Tracks. Won. Price. Won Price. Ascot 19S 0-5 9S 3-1 Aqueduct 25 11-10 11 1S-5 Belmont 12 3-2 23 3-1 Beilniug 47 11-10 1! 12-5 Buffalo SO 13-10 37 13-5 City Park 147 3-2 72 17-5 Fair Grounds 122 7-5 59 17-5 Gravesend 42 7-5 20 10-5 Hamilton 34 0-5 7 13-5 Jamaica 33 3-2 12 17-5 Lafonia IS 3-2 53 3-l Louisville 00 ,. 3-2 35 10-5 Lexington 11 7-5 11 14-5 .Montreal 27 0-5 IS 11-5 Oakland 321 . 3-2 177 10-5 Oaklawn 114 13-10 03 3-1 Pimlk-o .Bi-lO 21 4-1 Sheepshead "7 7-5 22 3-1 Toronto 37 l-l IS 10-5 Windsor 00 7-5 37 2J-1 Total races 1,518 S13 Grand Average 27-20 31-10
