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For these events the premiums for trotters 

 amounted to $330,064.49 and for pacers to $156,- 

 378.10, making a grand total for the year of $486,- 

 442.59. Rainy days kept this amount from running 

 over half a million. During the first five meetings, 

 the weather was favorable for racing but after the 

 horses arrived at Philadelphia someone upset the 

 rain barrel and it never got back into position dur- 

 ing the balance of the season. Two days were 

 checked off the list at Belmont Park as well as at 

 Poughkeepsie and Hartford, Boston lost almost three 

 and Syracuse almost two, nine races being declared 

 off at that point. The Columbus September meeting 

 was also hampered by the weather but managed to 

 give its programme, while a colt race was all that 

 was skipped at Lexington. At Atlanta the curtain 

 fell on the series in the rain with the loss of a day's 

 programme. 



The series of 1919 run the number of meetings 

 given by members of the Grand Circuit in forty- 

 six years up to 402 at which the premiums amounted 

 to $12,805,303.92. 



While the average rate of speed was faster than 

 in the past, there were few sensational perform- 

 ances except among the aged, some might call them 

 old, horses. Single G.'s heat in 1:59% at Toledo 

 was the only one below two minutes, while Lu 

 Princeton led the trotters with a time record of 2:01 

 and a mile in 2:02 in a dash race. These are a trifle 

 shy of the returns in 1918 when Single G. and Miss 

 Harris M. placed the three heat race record for 



