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ESTIMATE OF ENGLISH RACINGS COST A writer in a recent number of a weekly periodical Stimulis that England annually spends 4U0000H on the sport of seeing thoroughbreds compete in con ¬ tests ot speed Commenting on the matter the writer says saysRather Rather large figures Yet they do not cover the price of top hats and spats as showing how gen ¬ eral racing is as a national sport on the tight little island islandThe The figures given by the writer were compiled by an English authority in such matters at the ex ¬ pense of some labor and are as accurate perhaps as possible The estimates from the American viewpoint indeed are liberal but nevertheless en ¬ tertaining To quote again from the periodical periodicalThe The sport of the English turf Is enormously ex ¬ pensive carried on as it is by the richest and most intluential portion of the population This Is the society sport Indeed the sport of royalty and nobil ¬ ity par excellence The sport of kings is practiced in no other land in more kingly fashion We ad ¬ vance these figures as covering its cost costStake Stake money 3100000 3100000Jockeys Jockeys fees etc 0125000 0125000Officials Officials 300days racing under rules of ofJockey Jockey Club and National Hunt 750000 750000Jockevs Jockevs silks and satins 75000 75000Saddles Saddles racing plates etc 250000 250000Training Training and feeding 5000 horses In train ¬ ing f lCOOOOO lCOOOOOUpkeep Upkeep of training establishments boys Permanent ollicials in the employ of Jockey Club anil National Hunt also alsoracing racing companies 250000 250000Sales Sales of bloodstock public and private 1500000 1500000Gate Gate moliev 1750000 1750000Railway Railway traveling men and horses 1500000 Annual expenditure 18400000 18400000To To tliis should be added the amounts permanent ¬ ly invested in the sport which would include the value of 5 KO horses in training say 12500000 and that of the training dovhs and courses 7500 000 We might make perhaps a grand total of S20Oi 0000 and say fairly enough that to play the rjcing game one year in England requires alMiut 4 MMM R I IRut Rut if the racing figures are stupendous tin stnie English authority furnishes even more start ¬ ling statistics when the subject of the greater na ¬ tional sport of foxhunting is taken up The Eng ¬ lish authoritys table for foxhunting brings out a total of s77J 000 and this as lie says without ciuiiting the expenses incidental to following the loutids
