Sport: Pots of Gold

Florida's 96-day racing season starts with 17 days at Tropical Park, ten miles southwest of Miami, continues with a 46-day meeting at swank Hialeah Park, six miles northwest of Miami, winds up with a 33-day return engagement at Tropical. Last week 10,000 Miami visitors flocked to Tropical Park to see the 1940 U. S. horse-racing season break from the barrier. Meanwhile U. S. railbirds from coast to coast pored over the 1939 betting results, posted by United Press:

> At the pari-mutuel windows of U. S. race tracks, in 17 of the 18 States where machines handle horse-race betting,* a total of $297,633,113 changed hands. It was $20,000,000 more than last year.

> For the second year in a row, California finished in front. Its pot of $75,808,676 set a new record for the handle of a single State.