236 RACING, PAST AND PRESENT. 
each, bringing the sum total to about £12,000 for the whole 
racing season—not double the value of one stake run for 
1owadays. The whole amount run for in one recent year 
(1878) reached the enormous sum of £391,049 4s. Od. exclu- 
sive of matches, as given below in a tabulated form taken 
from the “ Raging Calendar.”! In this respect racing seems 
to have made greater strides than in almost anything else; for 
on comparing this sum with the £12,000 that was run for in 
1750, we shall find it to be more than thirty times as much 
as the total of 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 
1 Table showing the amount of money added to races of different distances 
in Great Britain and Ireland, in 1878, and the amount won in stakes, including 
added money :— 
Added Money. 
L s. d. Lb Ss. a. 
Half a mile and under.................. 19,799 0 O 
Ditto, selling races: 2e.sisecnsisenmans 12,540 0 O 
SS = 371939 40 00 
Five furlongs, and under six ......... 42,613 0 O 
Ditto, selling races ............5. 0. 25,8770 0 
—— 68,490 0 0 
Six furlongs, and under a mile ...... 26,766 0 oO 
Ditto, selling races ...........ecee eee 8,483 0 0 
: = 85,249 0 9 
A mile, and under a mile anda half. 47,735 190 oO 
Ditto, selling races .............:.0000 5,355 0 O 
—_—-— 53,090 10 9 
A mile and a half, and under two... 20,125 0 O 
Ditto, sellingraces. .ccsccecsseeewesives 150 0 O 
—_——_—— 20,275 0 vu 
Two miles and upwards ............... 15,950 O Vv 
Ditto, selling races... so. 100 0 O 
————_——_ 16,050 0 Oo 
Bo tal: wssisiesssemeasskortabiabingydercasctecinsus £225,493 10 0 
OF this sum £63,246 was given to two-year-old races, £14,371 of which was 
for selling races, and £115,879 Ios. was given to handicaps. 
Ireland contributed £9,015 of the total amount, and Scotland £7,192. 
The total value of stakes won, calculated according to Rule XI. (iii.) exclusive 
of matches, was £391,049 45. 
