2,000,000 in Purses Over fifty-two million dollars was paid in purses to horsemen racing thoroughbreds in the United States in 1949. The highest purse distribution recorded for one year in the TJ. S. was in 1948 when 4,-436,063 was paid to horsemen throughout the country.
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