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I TREND Of RACING JANUARY I TO MAY 29, INCLUSIVE Statistics here are based on daily reports by the racing associations to the press. , Daily Average Attendance -Daily Average Mutuel Handle- Meeting. 1954. Arizona Downs 2,-189 . Ascot Park 4,250 Bay Meadows 12,780 t Belmont Park 22,673 "Beulah Park 5,871 tBowie ....... 11,339 Charles Town 6,058 Churchill Downs 16,447 tDetroit .Race Course "... 11,775 Dufferin Park 7,332 Fair Grounds 1953-54 8,516 tFairmount Park 7,079 Fort Miami 2,448- Garden State Park 22,659 Gulfstream Park 14,362 Hialeah Park 20,665 tHollywood Park 30,119 Jamaica 29,768 Keeneland 8,932 Laurel Race Course 14,800 Lincoln Downs 13,417 tLincoln Fields 9,333 Oaklawn Park 8,329 tOmaha 8,629 Phoenix-Fairgrounds 1953-54.... 4,227 Phoenix-Sportsmans Park 3,596 Pimlico ." 12,271 . t Portland Meadows - 4,759. Santa Anita Park 1953-54 ....... 27,166 Sportsmans Park 11,342. Suffolk Downs .....14,315 Sunshine Park . 3,282 Tropical Park 1953-54 9.223 Wheeling Downs 3,767 tWoodbine .. : . 10,796 Days. 1953. 27 3,000 ,39 4,241 45 8,667 30 24,485 19 5,228 17 11,882 25 5,682 19 . 16.632 8 1li514 18 6,816 83 7,471 18 6,399 25 3,221 25 21,751 43 14,326 40 19,677 11 29,151 21 28,495 11 8,341 19 11,882 30 13,798 9 13,444 31 7,799 8 8,660 30 3,266 25 3,352 .18 13,025. 16 3,992 50 30,776 21 11,426 37 13,984 52- 3,082 43 10,284 25 3,846 7 8,181 Days. Change. 23 -27 44 40 47 37 7 19 4-12 31 5 24 7 13 1 57 -f 2 19 8 82 14 33 11 25 24 25 4 42 .. 40 5 50 3 30 4 11 7 31 25 29 3 30 -26 31 7 35 29 26 23 7 21 6 50 19 50 -12 24 - 1 60 2 51 6 42 -10 26 2 35 32 1954. 1953. 5 101,172 $ 127,563 238,022 240,818 803,110 649,002 2,005,133 2,082,680 262,710 240,852 938,109 984,059 382,449 367,792 912,052 901,879 641,195 755,175 319,264 292,801 424,403 372,716 253,384 283,972 140,228 161,883 2,023,413 1,959,434 1,124,930 1,140,623 1,676,927 1,552,115 1,935,359 2,120,065 2,442,446 2,444,556 425;904 403,596 1,197,160 984,059 323,176 915,405 691,524 980,607 464,726 435,451 380,866 390,605 129,134 112,136 128,202 117,881 n . . 928,767 . , 1,010,209 115,368 119,493 1,937,991 2,167,011 782,971 832,228 891,941 908,488 171.633 168,507 736,372 803,933 194,506 200,807 386i974 336,509 Change. -21 1 24 4 9 5 4 1 -15 9 14 11 -13 3 1 8 9 e 22 -1 -29 7 -2 15 S 8 3 -11 6 2 2 8 3 15 Figures complete through Memorial Day. 1954 attendance estimated. iCurrent meeting. NOTE Figures for meetings now in progress are compared with totals for COMPLETE meetings in 1953. NOTE Fair Grounds meet for 1954 included one day charity meet for benefit of Red Cross. 1953 figures are for Bowie-Laurel Race Course combined spring meeting.
