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Show PRIZES OF THE BRITISH TURf Statistics of British horse raring lately published show that more than1 (2,600,000 was won in prizes In Great Britain last year. These figures not' only constitute a record but indicate the steady growth of public Interest 1 in racing, for ' mammoth' prizets have! almost ceased to exist, yet total wln-nlncs wln-nlncs grow. Twenty years ago some of the stakes were worth more than 10,000 pounds but now It 1b proctically Impossible Im-possible for a horse to reach the high earnings achieved by Isinglass and Donovan, for the Eclipse stakes is the onlj mammoth prize remaining, and such races as' the Derby and St. Leger are of little greater value than they were two generations ago. In the past thirty years more than 15,000,000 pounds has been won In Great Britain In racing prizes, which shows the greater amount of public support that is now assisting the owners and managers, derived from gate money. It has been onlv within recent years that the great bulk of the spectators have not been admitted admit-ted tree: formerly they contributed little or nothing to either the rewards or the expenses of the meeting. |