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LEXINGTON TO DISTRIBUTE BIG MONEY. Lexington. Ky.. April S. — When the Kentucky Associations board of directors voted to add .. 00a per day to purse races, to be run at the spring meeting, they brought gladness to the hearts of horsemen. That means that the aggregate distribution in stakes and purses will be approximately Stl.000 daily or an average of 8S00 per race for the seventy-five races William II. Shelley will write into the program he is now preparing for publication. The distribution to owners, racing at Lexington this spring, will be nearly 00 per race in excess of that at any previous meeting in the long and honorable history of the Kentucky Association. The following table tells the story of the previous nine years: Total Average Tear. Days. Paces. Dist. Dist. 1907 7 42 6,700 97 190S 9 M 21.100 391 190S 7 42 10.500 250 1910 7 42 19.370 451 1911 11 Of. 38.770 5S0 1912 11 07 39,920 590 1913 11 ;: 41.970 620 1914 12 73 50.785 705 1915 12 75 49,133 655
