The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
ENGLAND's RACING BUSINESS.
Something Like s3,OOO,OOO Annually
Won by Successful Owners.
From the Baltimore American.


From the Baltimore American.
No one who has not carefully considered
and examined the subject can even family
realize how enormous an Industry racing
has become in England, and to what a
vast array It directly and indirectly fur
nlshes means Of livelihood. The precisa
amount won In stakes under jockey CLUB
rules last season is returned at s.. IA 1880.
but these figures do not include the prizes
secured in steeplechase and hurdle races.
nor the awards IN fiat races to horses thas
ran second. In the principal events these
last are often considerable. The second
in the Gold Cup at Ascot receives 81, 800.
and the third $780, in the Princess oG
Wales stakes there is consolation In the
beaten owners OF the placed horses to thu
handsome amount Of 5000 and $500, and
the same rs the case in the jockey club
stakes. For something like nine months
IN the year racing under the rules OF tha
national hunt committee like nine months
Stakes range from the Grand National, ON
which $4,000 Is distributed to the first threa
horses, to very small sums; but In the ag-
gregate the total is large and &c Is doubts
less within the mark TO say that little shorh
of S3,0O0O0O "A year Is divided between sues
cessful owners. Last year 3lS9 horses
ran on the fat
The number Of hurdle racers and steeples
chasers is not oDtanable. Nor is II easy
approximately 20 estimate IT, on free
quent occasions sixty or seventy horses
run during the day; altogether probably
some 1900 animals go TO the post every
year IN England, not including those THAI
take part IN local hunt and point-to-poinu
races. The care OF these animals In train-
Ing occupies regiments Of men and bOya
llatt4 AZ fam
and there are, besides, saddlers makers %
clothing and stable requisites and minus
merable others concerned with the produc-
ton and carriage OF hay and corn.
In addition 20 al these, there are tho
servants employed In breeding establish-
ments AZ various studs last year foals
by close on 800 different sires are recorded
IN the stud Book. Thrty-four sons and
daughters we're ho~n 10 Royal Hampton.
% to Despair, - to Orme, - TO Common, 30
10 Adieu, 20 TO ST. Simon; IN an, some 1900
foals came into being; and to tend thesa
another army OF men and boys are neces-
sary.
The transport OF race horses about ths
country adds enormously TO the revenue
Of the railways. and not little 90 that oe
the steamship companies, by whose means
a proportion Of these animals are dis
patched 70 all parts OF the world; for theirs
Is no country that does not strengthen its
OuRhbred horse. To what extent the
dividends Of the railway companies beg.
q ~ the thousands Of men who are g..
veyed almost daily IN all directions for tbs
sake Of attending races, or on business
connected with the sport II would be i'm
possible TO calculate. Many OF these, no
doubt are not agreeable fellow-passen-
gers, but 80 huge conc0urse must ncces-
sary be mixed. The well-bcing OF the very
many towns Is vastly enhanced every year
BY the money spent az hotels, lodgings
and shops by visitors TO races, and thu
benefit extends largely to ny proprietors
aud others.
The attempt that Is now being made "a
suppress racing-for. In spite OF deniala.
that Is fully recognized as the object Of
those who are attacking the sport because
Of the incentive Il gives TO bettinDund ~ ,
ruin many Thousands, ana serlnu man
the livelihood OF "a sim mar Of his
body. The attack has not antaloons
chance Of success, bat " noey work
combatted u may hamper andsis. re-
affect the sport and the supfcnmehow
English thoroughbred.