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Monmouth Parks Attendance And Wagering on Uptrend MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 25. — The first 10 days of the current Monmouth Park meeting, continuing 40 additional days through August 10, have produced attendance and mutuel figures which indicate all records at this seashore course will be broken this season. A total of 136,784 fans has been recorded by the admissions department for a daily average of 13,678, as against 12,859 a year ago, this being a 6.4 per cent jump. In wagering, the totalis 1,013,158 for a daily mark of ,101,315 for an increase of 8.8 per cent over last seasons ,012,401. The percentage of winning favorites for the first 10 days of the meeting is a respectable 32.5 with 26 choices scoring in 80 races.
