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Show Saratoga Is Track-Mad. Tho degree of rapidity with which horso racing has leaped into popular, favor this season, and particularly among tho fashlonablo habitues of the Saratoga trnck, is unexampled. This form of amusement has cvor been a predominating one In tho an nals of American sport and a lavorlto ambling means for tho Interchanging Interchang-ing of money, but this year the betting bet-ting mania hns laid hold ot the pcoplo pco-plo as never beforo and the amount cf money that changes pockets alter each rate 1b extraordinary. "I estimate that two millions ot dollars a day is bet on the races at this track," said a prominent Saratoga Sara-toga bookmaker a few days since. "Tho amount of betting now," he continued, con-tinued, "is five times as great as any other year that 1 havo known here. Tho money does not como from any great plunger or group of plungers, but from tho great assemblages at rlca men who nro willing to bet from $100 to $1,000 on their choices In a race." |