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GREAT AUSTRALIAN VALUES Randwick Course of Jockey Club Gives Immense Amount in Stakes and Purses. SYDNEY. N. S. W.. June 1. The Australian Jockey Club of Sydney. N. S. W., races seven days each spring and winter. Its winter is our spring and its 1921 spring meeting is yet to come. Its distributions yearly at its winter meeting for the lust twenty years have quadrupled and at the estimate for the coming spring 50,000 that meeting lias increased the amounts of its stakes and purses almost four times. Here are the yearly amounts raced for at the Australian Jockey Club spring meetings for the last twenty years: Year. Amr. Year. A int. 1901 $ 03,885 1912 5S.O05 1902 73,04", in;i 170,11.". 1903 71,935 1914 191,390 1901 73.070 1913 1S3.7H5 1903 7;;,!i.-:l 1910 103.113 190i 9i;,o;,5. 1017 Iti3,975 1907 100.430 191S ir.li.l13 190S 100,420 1919 .. 179.183 1909 121,970 1920 213,285 1910 130,175 1921 250.000 1911 140.1S5 Total 21 spring seasons .S97,G20 Estimated. The winter meeting totals of the club for twenty-one years have been as follows: Year. Amt. Year. Anit. 1901 $ 39,370 1912 40,740 1902 03,423 1913 132 010 1903 0S.7C0 1914 194,390 1904 72,035 1915 184,173 1903 : 79,130 1910 1S1.3SU 1900 9G.0IM 1917 100,270 1907 SS. 130 1918 159,370 1905 91,951 1919 183.350 1909 101,420 1920 180,225 1910 10S.2CO lULl 225.890 1911 130,255 Total 21 winter seasons ,07C,0S1 Total for 21 years both meetings ... .,373,701 The prizes for the two and three-year-old stakes of the club to be run this spring your winter, December next, have all been raised in value and are: Breeders Plate, ,500; Gimcrack Stakes. ,500: Produce Stakes, 0,000: Champagne Stakes, 5,000; December Stakes, 0,000; Knox Stakes, two of ,500 each; Derby, 3,000; St. Leger, . 2,500. I The spring handicap prizes include the 0,000 Metropolitan aud 0,000 Epsom Handicaps.
