Question: How many meters is the race in which the novel "Gaming for Gold" features?

Context articles: Gaming for Gold
Gold Mountain Casino
Intertidal zone
Abdellatif Baka
Shawn Crawford
Coppa d' Oro delle Dolomiti
WSYY-FM
David Holding
Melbourne Cup
Sphagnum

Gaming for Gold is a novel by Australian writer Arthur Wright which was published in England.
 It is about a New Zealand racehorse that participates in the Melbourne Cup.
Gold Mountain Casino is a Native American casino in Ardmore, Oklahoma, owned and operated by the Chickasaw Nation.
 Originally opened in 2002 as Ardmore Gaming, the facility has grown steadily and today features more than 300 gaming machines.
 The casino is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
 The 8620 sqft casino is located on the corner of P Street N.E. and Sam Noble Parkway, and can be accessed via Interstate 35, exit 33.
 It is a short distance from the Ardmore Convention Center and the Hardy Murphy Coliseum.
 Gold Mountain is about 34 miles north of WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma, and 77 miles south of Riverwind Casino in Norman, Oklahoma, which are also Chickasaw-owned gaming facilities.
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and sometimes referred to as the littoral zone, is the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide (in other words, the area between tide marks).
 This area can include many different types of habitats, with many types of animals, such as starfish, sea urchins, and numerous species of coral.
 The well-known area also includes steep rocky cliffs, sandy beaches, or wetlands (e.g., vast mudflats).
 The area can be a narrow strip, as in Pacific islands that have only a narrow tidal range, or can include many meters of shoreline where shallow beach slopes interact with high tidal excursion.
 Peritidal zone is similar but a somewhat wider zone, extending from above the highest tide level to below that of the lowest tide level.
Abdellatif Baka (born 7 May 1994) is a visually impaired Algerian middle-distance runner.
 Competing in the T13 classification, Baka represented his country at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London where he won the gold medal in the 800 metres race, and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning the 1500 metres.
 He won the 1500m in Rio with a record 3'48.29, a faster time than that of the 2016 Summer Olympics 1500m winner, Matthew Centrowitz Jr. The latter's time in the Rio Olympics men's 1500 meters final race was beaten not only by all three medalists in the Rio Paralympics men's 1500 meters race but also by Fouad Baka, who is the brother of Abdellatif Baka and came 4th in that final race.
 He is also a multiple World Championships winner, taking four medals over two tournaments.
Shawn Crawford (born January 14, 1978) is a retired American sprint athlete.
 He competed in the 100 meters and 200 meters events.
 He won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 meters.
 He originally finished 4th in the race but after the 2nd and 3rd-place winners were disqualified, he moved up to a silver.
 On April 18, 2013, Crawford was suspended for two years for missing out-of-competition drug tests.
 His coach, Bob Kersee claimed that Crawford retired after the 2012 United States Olympic Trials and USA Track & Field said he filed retirement papers in 2013.
The Coppa d' Oro delle Dolomiti (translation: "Gold Cup of the Dolomites") was a car race on public roads open to traffic, which was run in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy for ten years from 1947 to 1956.
 It took place along an anti-clockwise circuit that was 304 km (188 miles) long and usually took about 3 to 4 hours to complete the one lap that made up the race distance, with the start and finish in the town of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
 The circuit went through many Italian towns, and it had nearly 2,000 meters (2 km, 1.25 miles, or 6,600 feet) of elevation change- more than 6 1/2 times that of the Nürburgring and the Isle of Man TT track.
 It was established by the Automobile Club of Belluno, which is still the runner of the now historic event, since 1972.
 The race is included in the international calendar FIA as "Big Event CSAI" classic regularity.
WSYY-FM (94.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting for approximately 18¼ hours per day, 7 days a week (from 4:55AM through 11:10PM ET) under the slogan, ""Radio With An Attitude"".
 Playing a mix of oldies/classic hits, adult contemporary, rock music, and some country crossovers, the station broadcasts an Adult Hits/Full-Service format for approximately 16 hours per day, from 6:00AM through 10:00PM ET (reserving the first and, also, the final hour of their broadcast day to "When Radio Was").
 "The Mountain 94.9" carries local high school sports in season.
 "The Mountain 94.9" had also carried the complete schedule of Red Sox Baseball (from 1997 through 2015, prior to becoming a Former Affiliate in 2016, which was when Millinocket's affiliation with the Red Sox Baseball would ultimately be transferred over to co-owned WSYY-AM, thus concluding the frequent interruptions to the music on "The Mountain 94.9" during Baseball season).
 The station currently features programming from CBS Radio and carries CBS Radio News at the top of every hour (and has been an affiliate of that network for many decades).
 Licensed to Millinocket, Maine, United States, the station's broadcast signal serves the Central Penobscot County, Eastern Piscataquis County, and Southern Aroostook County Maine areas, and the station is licensed to serve the town of Millinocket, Maine, the very town where its studios/offices and tower site are located.
 The station is currently owned by Katahdin Communications, Inc.
 WSYY-FM originally went on the air in 1978 on 97.7 FM as WKTR, upgrading to its current facilities in 1984 on 94.9.
 Prior to their "The Mountain 94.9" branding, WSYY-FM used to be referred to as "North Country 95", airing a full-time Country Music format.
 The current format, branding, and slogan was probably adopted around March 1, 2004, when Katahdin Communications, Inc. assumed control of WSYY-FM & WSYY-AM from Katahdin Timberlands, LLC (as a result of the radio station facing increasing land disputes), initially as a short term lease agreement but the transfer of ownership ultimately became permanent.
 Those same land disputes would eventually lead to a loss of WSYY-FM's 23,500 watt transmitter location (featuring an antenna HAAT of 211 meters); as a result, WSYY-FM may have been operating under a Special Temporary Authority License (a 12,000 watt facility with an antenna HAAT of 68 meters via Hammond Ridge on Lake Road, about two miles from Millinocket Municipal Airport), ever since as long ago as late 2007, pending a planned permanent move to a 22,000 watt facility with an antenna HAAT of 198.4 meters (from just off Nicatou Road in Medway, well east of WSYY-FM's old or current transmitter tower location).
 On November 23th, 2016, the CP for this proposed move was modified to a 45,000 watt facility with an antenna HAAT of 146.7 meters, the first time this proposed move has ever received official approval from the FCC.
 WSYY-FM is one of the two Maine affiliates—apart from WLOB—of When Radio Was (7 days a week from 5:00AM through 6:00AM ET and also from 10:00PM through 11:00PM ET), is one of the two Maine affiliates (WWMJ) of The Acoustic Storm (Saturdays from 9:00AM through 12:00PM ET), is Maine's only affiliate of the Crook & Chase syndicated Country Music countdown programming (Sunday afternoons from 2:00PM through 6:00PM ET), and is an affiliate of the Blues Deluxe radio show.
 WSYY-FM/WSYY-AM are unusual in that while these stations are authorized to broadcast 24 hours a day, the stations both have sign-offs every day (WSYY-AM signing off at sun-down, broadcasting only on Weekends (but not between Monday-through-Friday) and WSYY-FM broadcasting for approximately 18¼ hours per day, 7 days a week, WSYY-FM's broadcast day concluding with the 11:00PM ET Top-of-the-Hour CBS Radio newscast and then a Nightly Sign-Off Announcement and then an instrumentation of the American national anthem, followed by Dead Air amidst a Transmitter Power-Down, not Signing Back Onto The Air until 4:55AM ET).
 In Old Town and also Bangor (and continuing southward and/or southwestward), the station has strong FM co-channel interference with Portland-market WHOM (which transmits from atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the tallest peak in the Northeast and had for a long time claimed on its website that it has the largest coverage area of any FM station in the United States, its signal spanning five states: NH, ME, VT, MA, NY and also parts of Southern Quebec Province, Canada), this matter being especially problematic before dawn or after dusk.
 In favorable atmospheric conditions, a very weak signal of WHOM can be DX-ed in Millinocket during overnight hours (when WSYY-FM is off-the-air).
David Holding (born 1968) is a British wheelchair athlete.
 Holding was born with spina bifida, a birth defect that affects the spinal cord, and has been in a wheelchair since childhood.
 An accountant by training, he competes as an amateur athlete in wheelchair races of all distances.
 He has won a number of races, but is most well known for being a four-time winner of the London Marathon and the former world record holder and a Paralympic Games gold medal winner in the 100 meter wheelchair race.
 He competed in four Summer Paralympic Games, from 1992 to 2004, in events ranging from the 100 meters to the marathon.
 In addition to his 1996 gold in the 100 meters, he also won two bronze medals: in the 200 meters in 1996 and in the 100 meters in 2000.
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race.
 It is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria as part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
 It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races.
 The event starts at 3pm on the first Tuesday in November and is known locally as "the race that stops a nation".
Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as peat moss.
 Accumulations of "Sphagnum" can store water, since both living and dead plants can hold large quantities of water inside their cells; plants may hold 16–26 times as much water as their dry weight, depending on the species.
 The empty cells help retain water in drier conditions.
 Hence, as sphagnum moss grows, it can slowly spread into drier conditions, forming larger mires, both raised bogs and blanket bogs.
 These peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and carnivorous plants.
 "Sphagnum" and the peat formed from it do not decay readily because of the phenolic compounds embedded in the moss's cell walls.
 In addition, bogs, like all wetlands, develop anaerobic soil conditions, which produces slower anaerobic decay rather than aerobic microbial action.
 Peat moss can also acidify its surroundings by taking up cations, such as calcium and magnesium, and releasing hydrogen ions.
 Under the right conditions, peat can accumulate to a depth of many meters.
 Different species of "Sphagnum" have different tolerance limits for flooding and pH, so any one peatland may have a number of different "Sphagnum" species.