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BRITISH RACING RETURNS OF LAST YEAR The annual volume of the Racing Calendar published by Messrs Weatherby contains the usual interesting tables relative to the past flat racing season wuich from a financial point of view com ¬ pares very favorably with the returns of previous years In 1901 one day of the Warwick Noveriiber meeting was abandoned in consequence of frost anil one day of the Manchester November suffered through the prevalence of fog while in the previous year three races on Thursday and all races on Friday at the Newmarket Craven meeting were abandoned in consequence of snow snowThe The total number of horses of different aces that ran in 190 is given as 3850 as against 3735 in the jirecedins year and of these 1420 were twoyear olds 1002 threeyearolds C31 fouryearolds and 797 liveyearolds and upward while the number of races of different distances in which they comi ete l was 2 S4 as against 2070 in 1908 1908Tin Tin total value of the stakes secured by winners during UK in England was 2480005 in Ireland lbO705 and Scotland 02440 this showing an in ¬ crease over the previous year in England and Scot ¬ land but a slight decrease in Ireland tl then being England 2458920 Ireland ii Hw and Scotland 50015 Iii England and Scotland dnriiiK the past season the amount won in handicaps wis 1002440 in selling races other than handicaps r0 and in weightforage races 1134145
