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COMPARATIVE MILE SPEED. That horses run faster over certain tracks than over others, is one of tlie things familiarly known to all followers of the sport. This is due mainly to two factors, the first of which is the composition of the soil of which the track is made and the other is the skill of tlie trackmaster In preparing the course under his charge. Based on actual best performances the following exhibit-of the comparative speed of American tracks will be found of interest. Some of them have passed out of existence, others are idle In expectancy of being at some time restored to use, but the records over all such are given, :is well as those or the live tracks of the day. Dec. Est. Track. Comp. Speed. Mile .Mile. Record. Syracuse 094 l::!!i. Belmont Park 9S5 1 :::;:- Juarez p.su l:wvi Santa Anita Park . . 970 lji-v- Lexington ;.-, l;.it Churchill Downs MCC, l-"i7-" Harlem ;.-, 1-37- Saratoga .9i5 1:37 at Seattle .m5 1:37 Latouia ; . j :,;: Sheepshead Bay ..t; 1::17: Washington Park .9!0 1-37 Fort . Erie .900 l:37:v- Douglas Park .m;ii l-37::- Hrighton Beach ;o 1:37: Blue Bonnets i.-,-; 1-17-ii Havre de Grace estimated 955 1 ;:rT Eaurel n.-i.-, 1 .TJt AAindsor -. .-i5 7 Worth !!.!.!".. 1950 l-iss Kenilworth Park i.-l Aqueduct i,-,o jt-ji Morris Park IsMO lihs Oakland !M 1 ;:and$ Ascot Park p;;;!;. itockiiighaui Park mu. i:::sv. Minoru Park 935 " l:3S: Jacksonville p:,-, liiiS-S Hawthorne y;i j "-ur? 1,!"t,L , !J30 l-::ss-H -ity Park i:;o o;liii Jamaica estimated 930 l-iSit Empire City n.:o l::s .Graveseud .. l-",sQ Coeiir dAleiie .::t 1 !S- Woodbine Park 925 Fair Grounds New Orleans .;.-, ijq Tanfoian 25 i:,;h Pimlieo ! Overland Park " "." :y Elm RidJo Park ji ltWA Narrangausett Park 915 1 :! Jamestown ; .915 j-.. -Mineral Springs " .m.-; l-wii Inglesido 9121, l39?i St. Louis Fair Grounds !912V. i-wi Highland Park hlC". r -wu OaklaAvn ;,- jrfe iianditou t Anaconda m , : - Essex Park pno i-40 Cumberland Park pot l-jn Palmetto Park S!5 1 :40" Columbia on-. limi: Lakeside ..:.. i".". r, imoOZ Montgomery Park . 1 :40 Del mar Park .SS7i, ,:40,-, Helming b- - iljX-.r " Kinloch Park r- Connaught Park "s7"i 1 .41 Mexico City .. :.S70 jJ,, Union Park .si.-, .Xt Bowie " S.-0 l -jo " Plliing Rock ;S45 ji. Dorval Park aon i.Ai? .V.im- :8i2v. " -tk lUHPa 705 U4Z.-4, The foregoing table is based on an arbitrary decimal basis of 2;, points to a second, running down from a theoretical mile iu 1:30, valued at 1 00i
