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I TREND OF RACING |a JANUARY 1 TO MAY 17, INCLUSIVE Statistics here are based on daily reports by the racing associations to the press r- Daily Average Attendance * /-Dally Average Mutuel Handle— a Meeting. 1951 Days. 1951. Days. Change. 1951 1951. Change tBelmont Park 24,160 17 23,759 34 + 2% ,158,685 ,882,014 +15% = Bowie At Laurel 11,816 15 8,027 12 +47% 992,029 591,788 +67% L Charles Town 4,737 19 4,781 16 — 1% 317,546 240,817 +32% Churchill Downs 15,056 19 15,947 19 — 6% 816,039 695,337 +17% Fair Grounds 6,810 81 5,329 76 +27% 294,786 218,609 +35% £ Fort Miami 4,370 25 . 135,512 - tGarden State Park 19,829 15 17,112 25 +16% 1,601872 1,356,335 +18"% 2 Golden Gate Fields 11,802 45 9,081 41 +30% 864,442 630,740 +37% Gulfstream Park 13,774 41 11,543 42 +19% 1,055,911 818,831 +29% t Hialeah Park *19,292 40 17,327 40 +11% 1,515,926 1,301,397 +16% C tHollywood Park 24,114 5 25,799 50 — 7% 1,509,659 1,630,792 — 7% * Jamaica 29,223 24 26,900 36 + 9% 2,457,773 1120,051 +16% S Keeneland 7,900 11 7,257 11 +13% 365,804 295,721 +24% * Laurel Park 13,643 18 11,726 24 +16% 1,060,675 814,304 "+30% Z Lincoln Downs 11633 30 11,294 30 +12% 798,234 697,283 +13% ;= tLincoln Fields At Hawthorne.... 11188 6 10,558 29 +15% 786,661 694,596 +13% E Oaklawn Park 7,739 30 7.057 . 30 +10% 434,667 366,719 +18% f. Phoenix Fair Grounds 3,014 29 2,565 23 +18% 100,171 77,543 +29% - Phoenix Sportsmans Park 3,712 25 3,021 24 +23% 118,589 76,295 +55% Pimlico 12,748 15 10,938 19 +16% 953,202 748,024 +27% Santa Anita 26,549 50 23,813 50 +12% 1,837,385 1,518,925 +21% 5 Sportsmans Park 12,912 12 9,933 19 +30% 768,009 596,254 +29% w tSuffolk Downs 13,747 24 11258 60 +12% 852,578 801484* + 6% u Sunshine Park 3,511 49 2,209 43 +59% 159,794 125,125 +27% * Tropical Park .9.705 41 , 8.446 41 +15% 725,720 566,600 +28% - tCurrent meeting. NOTE— Average daily attendance and mutuel handle for 1951 is for the entire meeting. The first meeting at Bowie in 1951 was held at Bowie racetrack, while the first meeting for 1952 was transferred to Laurel Race Course. Sportsmans Park meeting suspended after racing of Saturday, May 3.
