RACING IN AMERICA
THE FAMOUS SANTA ANITA HANDICAP Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ARCADI (California), March 5. (Received March 6, at 8 a.m.) Before a record crowd of 65,000, including scores of cinema notables, Kyek the Second won the 131,000d01s Santa Anita Handicap by a length and a-half, setting a new track record of 3min 21 2-osee. The value of the stake to the winner was 91 .OOOdols.' to the second 20,000d015, and to the third 10,000dols.
The wagering broke all tract records, the sum of 1,701,000d01s passing through the parimutuels throughout the day, with 37G,000d01s on the feature race alone.
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Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 16
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100RACING IN AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 16
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