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"POVERTY STRICKEN" AUSTRIA RACING The Aienna, Austria, Derby meeting, which opened September 8, has a display as to the value of . its stakes in Deutscher Sport. In the aggregate the prize money offered amounts to about 15,000. prewar value of l,50S,uOO kroner. Such racing prizes are astonishing in a country that publicly parades its poverty and financial ruin. The Vienna meeting offers sixty-three races, .with the average value per race of 5,000. These figures are far over even big American racing figures and overtops those of. tiie Derbymeeting at English Epsom and Cup meeting at Ascot. The Epsom average for tiie four days of the Derby meeting was S4,279
