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, , I i 1 t , , I I CUBAN METROPOLIS TO HAVE HORSE RACING. Meeting to Take Place at Havana Next Month Under Cuban Management. The following communication to Daily Racing Form, dated Havana. January S3* will be of inter est to the racing folks of this country: •We feel sure that you w:Il he interested lo learu that horse racing in the West Indies will lie taken up on March 12. of this year. •"The attached in- moraiuliini is taken from tin otlieial program of the Kstaeiuu luvernal. which is the Spanish for winter season. A regularly oian izod commission has been appointed lo take up lhe mailer of giving entertainment to the visitors in Cuba each year. Heretofore it has not been pos sible to keep the people entertained for a long enough [leriod ami that deficiency is to be supplied by this commission. They ere late in starting this year, but that will be made up next year with- out any question. •"The Cuban BaetaK Association is l eing fathered hf the Festival Committee of the Estaeion luvernal. which insures the proper treatment of all people who compel e or who come to see the races. The track is located at Buena Vista, about five miles from Havana on the Havana Electric Railroad and tie- | uiteir Railways of Havana, which provide plenty of traiis[K rtatioii facilities for the crowds. Yours very truly. Edgar W. Dcnuison. Secretary." Tin- "attached memorandum" referred to reads as follows: "Thursday. March 12th. Carreras de Caballos. "In the afternoon. Official inauguration of horserace season. Under the auspices of the Festival Committee, the awards of 0,000 In priz.es by that commit tee, given to the Cuban Racing Association, being divided into hu" first prize of .O00. two prizes of ,500 each aud live ,000 prizes. Information as to the raciug card for the succeeding days, entry blanks, and geuei-Hl inquiries may be addressed to Arturo Hernandez, secretary. Cuban Racing Association, 57 Cuba street. Havana. Cuba." Ever since tuba became ;. free nation there has been intermittent talk of raciug at Havana, hut nothing has come of it. That winter raciug at Havana might prove successful and profitable, if under feei management, seems highly probablo. Possibly the beginning of well established annual racing is iu sight in tin- preseut project of the Cuban Racing Assoeiat ion.
