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DETAILS OF HAVANA MEETING. Stake Announcement Due "Within Day or Two Special Arrangements for Shipment of Horses. Laurel, Md., Oct. 2S. A committee representing the horsemen now racing here waited on manager II. D. Brown yesterday to formally thank him for providing- them with racing opportunities and especially for the amount of money given away by mm during the present meeting. They also, asked him to hurry matters along as much as possible for the winter meeting in Cuba. II. D. Brown aud his assistant racing secretary, Joseph McLennan, are now at work compiling the conditions of the stakes for the Havana meeting, and will announce them tvithiu a few days, more than likely before the meeting at Laurel comes to an end. The will close on November 15 aud will be as valuable as those run at Jacksonville last winter. Two stakes will be decided eacli week during the one hundred or more days of racing. The outstanding features will include a big handicap on Christmas Day, as well as a Derby and a Special. The latter two will be the most valuable stakes of the meeting aud will Iks ruu in the spring. Representatives of the Havana track will be at" Latonia and Norfolk to look after stake entries and applications for stabling from horsemen at those points who are desirous of shipping to Cuba. Manager Brown has already completed arrangements to have special boats leave Norrolk at the conclusion of the meeting there to transport the horses and horsemen to the new plant at special rates. The horsemen shipping from Latonia or any of the points in Kentucky can ship via New Orleans, which is the shortest and best route. New York is another shipping point from which special arrangements will be made by manager Brown. A. J. Wilson, track superintendent at Laurel aud Jacksonville, will leave here tomorrow for Cuba with an adequate force of workmen to start on the remodelling or the track. So as to avoid delay, Mr. Brown lias decided to race the coming winter over the track which is already there. It is iu good condition and the work that is to be done in improving and widening it will make it serve the purpose admirably. There are over three hundred stalls ready for occupancy, and six hundred more will be erected in order to provide stabling for nine hundred horses. The fitting of the stables will be the first work taken tip, -so that they may be ready for the horses as they arrive.. The Stands and offices will be the last of the buildings to bd erected. Mr. Brown believes in giving the horses good quarters ns an essential thing. He will leave for Havana at the conclusion of the Laurel meeting Tuesday. Joseph McLennan will look after the iutercst,of the Association at Jamestown, . while another representa-tivu will be sent to Latonia. Many applications have already been received for stabling accommodations. T. C. McDowell has announced Ills Intention of running The Manager for the Havana. Derby, and Gallaher Bros, -will point Duval for the samo race.
