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The American Derby is run at Washington Park, Illinois.
The Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace, the Detroit Derby
at Detroit, the Classic Stakes at Arlington, the Great Amer
ican Stakes at Aqueduct, N.Y.; the Latonia Derby at Latonia,
Ky., the St. Louis Derby at St. Louis, the Prakness and the
Walden Stakes at Pimlico, Maryland; the Saratoga Cup, the
Saratoga Special, the Alabama, the Hopeful and the Travers
Stakes at Saratoga; the Santa Anita Handicap at Los Angeles,
the richest race in America (worth over $108,000 in 1935),
have heavy future books and are outstanding social events.
Other Countries where thoroughbred horses are run before
huge crowds of the elite are Belgium, with the Internationale at
Ostend, and Italy with the Derby and the Regina Elena Cup
at Rome and lately the million lire Steeplechase at Merano
(Tyrol). Germany has important meetings at Berlin and
Baden-Baden and both Vienna and Budapest turn out very
big crowds for thoroughbred racing, whilst all Australasia
Is brought to fever pitch over the Melbourne Cup.
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