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YOUNG STARS WIN RICHEST PRIZES. Two and Three-Year-Olds Have the Eest Opportunities Yearly. The majority of the greater prizes of the turf fall to two-year-olds and three-year-olds. The opportunities of older horses are limited in comparison. It is true that a superlatively great four-year-old, or older, might sweep the majority of big handicaps, weight-for-age stakes, and such exceptional events as the .Century and Annual Champion, and thereby amass a sum in excess of any won by a younger competitor, but such a horse has not arrived. The racing of the hist five years affords the following illustration, the examples showing the greatest money earners of each year: 1902 Four-year-olds and over. Gold Heels..? 2ul20 Thrce-vear-olds. Major Daingerllehl. . 57.0S5 Two-year-olds. Savabie 40.100 1903 Four-year-olds and over. Waterboy.. 50.775 Three-year-olds, Africander 70.SH Two-year-olds, Hamburg Belle 17,125 1901 Four-year-olds and over. Colonial Girl 49.035 Three-year-olds, Delhi 75,225 Two-year-olds. Artful -57,805 1005 Four-year-olds and over. Beldame.... 2G.S50 Three-year-olds, Sysonby 114. 3S0 Two-year-olds. Burgomaster 39.500 1900 Four-year-olds and over, So Between 3S.200 Three-year-olds. Accountant S3. 570 Two-year-olds, Electioneer 53.701 The record of this year is not complete, but it is positively assured that Its chief honor will fall to a two-venr-old. Colin is so far In advance of all other horses of the year that he is bound to be the chief money winner of 1907. To date the records of the three most successful horses of the different ages, are: Four-vear-olds and over. Nealon $ 35,250 Three-vear-ohls, Peter Pan 85. SO Two-year-olds, Colin 100. .9 1 It will be observed that in only one of these years 1903, did a horse of four years or older succeed in even splitting the two younger ages in earnings. Then Waterboy won ,GS5 more than the two-vear-old. Hamburg Belle, but was himself 0,035 behind the three-year-old, Africander. The obvious conclusion is that the stake offerings of the racing organizations of the country are not well proportioned in their division among the different aires.
