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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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