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A SUPERB PUBLICATION. THE AMERICAN RACING MANUAL for 1917 is now in course of preparation and will be ready for distribution about January 15. It contains all the features that have appeared in past editions. This publication, which is annually in great demand among those interested in the turf, is an excellent and low-priced book, holding information obtainable in no other publication. It is simply a mine of records. One of the features of this book is a tabulated compilation of the great races of England, France and Australia, which covers the winners and other details from their institution. This is a feature that is more comprehensive than ever before attempted by any turf publication in the world. Other features are: Record for 1916 of Every Horse That Raced in North America During the Year. Exposition of Method for Calculating Pari-Mutuel Prices, with Examples. Record Prices in the Pari-Mutuels. English Racing Records to Date. Three Handicap Systems, with Examples. Records for All Distances of the Tracks of the United States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. American Yearling Sales of 1916. American Racing Records at All Distances. Canadian Racing Records. English Racing Records. Australasian Racing Records. The Great Money Winners of the American and English Turf. Tabulation of Winning Two-Year-Olds of 1916, Arranged Under Their Respective Sires. Officials and Location of Racing Organizations of the United States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. List of Horses That Have Sold for Great Prices. The Leading Winning Two-Year-Olds Since 1870. Remarkable Feats of Jockeyship. Leading American Sires Since 1S70. Twenty Leading Sires of 1916. Table of Comparative Speed of the Tracks at Various Distances. The Scales of Weights of the Jockey Club, Kentucky State Racing Commission, Pacific Jockey Club, Canadian Racing Associations, Jockey Club Juarez, Cuba-American Jockey Club and of England. Tables of Speed of All Tracks. English Betting Rules. The First, Second and Third Horses, Jockeys, Weights, Values and Times of American Stakes. Winners of All Stakes of 1916. Racing Statistics of 1916. Horses Disqualified in 1916. Dead Heats in 1916. Horses Which Died in 1916. Horses Bid Up in 1916. Records of Foremost Races of England, France and Australia. Records of Miles Run in 1 :38 or Better. Etc., etc. Prices By Mail: Eighty-five cents in Paper Binding and .10 in Leather Covers. Prices At Office: Paper Bound, Seventy-five cents; Leather Bound, .00. With this eminently handy book in his pocket any admirer of racing can readily answer almost any query that may conic up concerning facts of racing in the past. Its equal has never been printed and, considering the topics it covers, it is an extremely low-priced book. Orders for it should be sent to Daily Racing Form Publishing Company; 441 Plymouth Court, Chicago, II.; 74 Exchange Street, Buffalo, N. Y., or 722, 501 Fifth Avenue, New York, and will be promptly filled.
