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1898. The membership of Terre Haute dates from 1900, 

 while Syracuse and Cincinnati were added in 1901. In 

 1902 the New York Trotting Association purchased Glens 

 Falls' place, and gave its first Grand Circuit meeting at 

 Brighton Beach. The accompanying table gives the 

 members of the Grand Circuit each season since 1873 to 

 the close of 1902, the amount of premiums paid by each 

 of them each year, the total amount given by them at 

 meetings in membership, and the total amount paid by 

 the members of the Circuit each year. In the thirty years 

 there have been two hundred and nineteen Grand Cir- 

 cuit meetings at which $5,625,819 were paid in premiums. 

 This is a large sum of money, but as an evidence that it 

 is only a big drop in the bucket is shown by the fact that 

 the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, 

 which was established in 1873, the year the Quadrilateral 

 started, has paid horse owners $1,164,620, over one-fifth 

 of the amount distributed by the entire Grand Circuit. 

 This is but one of the hundreds of trotting associations 

 scattered all over North America, all of which are con- 

 tributing in some instances thousands, and in others 

 hundreds, for harness racing. The returns show that the 

 associations in membership with the National and Ameri- 

 can Trotting Associations in 1901 paid $1,935,122. 

 When the premiums paid by associations which 

 were not in membership are added to that amount, 

 the total exceeds $2,000,000. The premiums at 

 Cleveland's Grand Circuit meetings amount to 

 $767,300, at Buffalo to $760,140, or if the meetings 

 which it gave on the regular dates, but not in the Circuit, 

 are added, $860,340, at Hartford to $718,939, at Rochester 

 to $450,925, and at Springfield to $357,525. Detroit has 

 paid out $464,600 at eleven Grand Circuit meetings, and 



