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RICH ARGENTINE RACING PRIZES Nine Events Worth 85250 Contested One Day at Buenos Aires Argentine racing while not as regular or of as long duration as that in the United States or European countries is more concentrated with richer prizes For instance Saturday September 28 last when the Argentine Gold Cup was run for at thti Palermo course of Buenos Aires there were nine races on the card The1 total prize money for the davs races was 85250 ordinary purses being 3500 and 4000 with 350 400 to second horses The Gold Cup Gran Premio de Honor yielded 38000 and the gold cup to the winner with 4000 to second and 2000 to third and the Premie Martinez 9500 to the winner and 1000 and 500 to the second and third horses In the Gold Cup race Botafogo the Argentine champion made the small field of three others look like hacks and won in a canter Botafogo is a remarkable horse four years old by Old Man Korea and so far is unbeaten unbeatenSeptember September S was another great racing day at Palermo Its chief piece was the Jockey Club Stakes Argentine Derby and another good hejrse Caricato by the English sire Crngauour Carieia won it easily from four others The Jockey Club Stakes was worth 28500 to the winner There was 3000 to the second and 2000 to the third horses Caricato was expected to give Botafogo something of a race when they met with twenty one pounds in the threeyearolds favor in thf Premio International the result of which is not yet here
