236 RACING, PAST AND PRESENT. 



each, bringing the sum total to about ;^i 2,000 for the whole 

 racing season — about half the value of one stake run for 

 nowadays. The whole amount run for in one recent year 

 (1878) reached the enormous sum of £2i9^>'^49 4^- 0*=/. exclu- 

 sive of matches, as given below in a tabulated form taken 

 from the " Racing Circular." ^ In this respect racing seems 

 to have made greater strides than in almost anything else ; for 

 on comparing this sum with the i^ 12,000 that was run for in 

 1750, we shall find it to be more than thirty times as much 

 as was run for in that year. 



It is perhaps needless to say that the rapid and gigantic 

 strides which the national sport has made in recent years, 

 would teach us falsely should they lead us to suppose that 



^ Table showing the amount of money added to races of different distances 

 in Great Britain and Ireland, in 1878, and the amount won in stal^es, including 

 added money : — 



Added Money. 

 ^ s. d. I s. d. 



Half a mile and under ^9)799 o o 



Ditto, selling races 12,540 o o 



• 32,339 o o 



Five furlongs, and under six 42,613 o o 



Ditto, selling races 25,877 o o 



68,490 o o 



Six furlongs, and under a mile 26,766 o o 



Ditto, selling races 8,483 o o 



35,249 o o 



A mile, and under a mile and a half . 47,735 10 o 



Ditto, selling races 5,355 o o 



53,090 10 o 



A mile and a half, and under two ... 20,125 o o 



Ditto, selling races 1 50 o o 



20,275 o o 



Two miles and upwards 15, 95° o o 



Ditto, selling races 100 o o 



16,050 o o 



Total ^^225,493 10 o 



Of this sum ;^63,246 \\as given to two-year-old races, ;^I4,37I of which was 

 for selling races, and ^11 5, 879 \os. was given to handicaps. 



Ireland contributed ^^9,01 5 of the total amount, and Scotland ;^7, 192. 



'Ihe total value of stakes won, calculated according to Rule XI. (iii.) cxchisive 

 of niatche.-;, was ^"39 1,049 ¥• 



