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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. B. W.. Terre Haute. Ind. Ther- was pl-nty of place and show b--tting on Kr.iiciier and such bets lost. W. A. H.. Cincinnati. O. Prices were correct as published. In the intitu.-ls the public makes the prives by purchasing tickets and the more tickets bought the smaller is the dividend in return. J. K. D.. I.atonia. Ky. 1 There is no S15.00il race in K ntuckj racing. 21 Ihe Cincinnati Trophy Is not the second race in value in tliis country for two-year-edds. I„-ist y«-ar it was fourth in that respect to the Futurity. Uaaefal Stakes and Homo-bnnl Produce stakes. 31 The greatest and fiie-st track in thin country b Belmont Park. The two Louisville tracks ;,re finely appointed, but so milch smaller that they could In- dropped into Belmont Park enclosure without interfering with the racing there. Belmont Park lias something near 050 acres inclosed. .las. K.. Cincinnati. O. The word "classic" does not apply to any race, run in this country and those writers who so use it are simply ignorant word lliangh is. By pre. ription of long -established custom it attaches properly to only the five great Knglish races f..r three y.-ar olds. The Two Thousand Guineas, One Tboanand Oalaraa. Kpsom Barks, Kpsom Oaks and P— caster St. l.eger. In Fugland. in normal times, there an a number of other famous and long-established races, such as the Ascot Gold Cup, Ellipse Stakes. Jockey Club Stakes and : others but no Well informed writer would even i think of applying the term classic to them
