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BIG PLAY AT TROPICAL MIAMI, Fla., April 10. The Gables Racing Association wound up its regular thirty-day spring meeting Saturday with a record play of ,579,792, as compared with the 1938 spring meeting handle of ,765,063. The play for the first and second Tropical meetings this season was 2,799,200, as compared with 2,175,769 handled for the full fifty days last winter. Total play at Tropical Park and Hialeah Park this winter was 5,-026,663, as compared with the 4,252,022 of the 1937-38 campaign. The extra benefit day Monday for the Florida exhibit at the Worlds Fair will conclude the racing season. Play Saturday was 59,749.
