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many once popular races have long since disappeared, but, 

 even now, where for sixty years the tendency has been to 

 shorten races. Ascot stands out alone in the way of 

 encouraging stamina. In writing of Newmarket I showed 

 what proportion of the two hundred and odd races decided 

 there every year was run on long and what proportion on 

 short courses, and with Ascot I will adopt the same plan. 

 Unfortunately only one meeting is held on the Royal 

 Heath during the racing season, and for some years past 

 the card has contained seven events each day, it having 

 known no change since the Coventry Stakes for two-year- 

 olds was established in 1890. Taking the races in order 

 of distance, the twenty-eight are thus divided : — 



