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j : RICH LIST OF STAKES OFFERED BY H. D. BROWN IN CONNECTION WITH HIS WINTER MEETING AT HAVANA A . - a. Baltimore, Md., October 13. H. D. Brown, after having spent several weeks in this country in the interest of the meeting which lie is to manage at Havana, Cuba, during the coming winter, has gone back to Cuba to rush to completion the new racing plant which he is building on modern lines at Marianao. the leading American suburb of Havana. Before leaving he tfcfinitely announced that the meeting at Oriental Park, which is the name he has selected for the new track, will begin January 7 and continue until .March 15, embracing sixty-eight racing days. The schedule calls for racing on Sundays, as well as other lays, in accordance with the custom in Latin countries. The stake list which Mr. Brown has prepared for the inaugural meeting at the new track, is the most valuable ever offered for a winter meeting in Xorth America and is counted niton to assure a racing season of great brilliancy and attract stables of importance whose owners had not heretofore planned a winter campaign Stakes carrying such values as 5,000, .0,000 and 5,000, as the Havana head-liners will, are none too plentiful on the American turf nowadays, it is pointed out, and in planning them. Mr. Brown had iu mind the establishment of racing at Havana on a scale that would draw patronage from all over the world. In recent years, Havana has rome to the front as a winter resort par excellence, especially for Americans of the wealthy class, and it is this class that will bo particularly catered to at the new track. The full list of twenty stakes to be run during the meeting as announced by Mr. Brown before his departure for Cuba is as follows: Cuba Inaugural Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 2,500. One mile. To be run January 7. Delmonte Selling Stakes, for two-year-olds at time of entry. Guaranteed .value ,500. Five and one-half furlongs. To be run January 10. Prado Selling Stakes, for thrce-year-ods and upward. Guaranteed value 1.500. Six and a half furlongs. To be run January 14. Capitol Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 2,000. One mile and one-sixteenth. To be run January 17. . Santiago Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value l0G.. . .One. inile, To-be run January 21. Club Members Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 5,000. One mile. To be run January 24. Vedado Selling Stakes, for three-year- olds and upward. Guaranteed value 1,500. Six furlongs. To be run January 28. Menocal Handicap, for three-year-olds and upwards. Guaranteed value ,500. One mile and a quarter.-To be rim January 31. L.i Tropical Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value ,500. Seven furlongs. To be run February 4. La Havana Handicap, for three-year-olds and upwards. Guaranteed value ,0CO. One mile and an eighth. To be run February 7. Panama Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 1,500. One mile. To lie run February 11. Columbia Handicap, for three-year-olds and upwards. Guaranteed value 0,000. One mile and one-sixteenth. To be run February 14. Pillar Del Rio Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds. Guaranteed value 1,500. Six furlongs. To be rnn February IS. Washington Handicap, for three-year-olds and upwards. Guaranteed value ,000. One mile. To be run February 21. Independence Selling Stakes, for two-year-olds yearlings at the time of entry. Guaranteed value 1,500. One-half mile. To be run February 24. - Morro Castle Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 2,000. One and one-sixteenth miles. To be run February 2S. Matanzas Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value-1,500. Six furlongs. To lie. run March 4. Juvenile Stakes, for two-year-olds vearlings at the time of entry. Guaranteed value 2,000. Five furlongs. To be run March 7. Marianao Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 1,500. Seven furlongs. To be run March 11. International Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward. Guaranteed value 15,000. One mile and one-eighth. To be run March 14. These stakes are to close November 1G. Upon his return to this country early next month Mr. Brown will announce further details of the meeting. It is understood that his tentative list of officials includes Cv H. Pettingill, T. O. McDowell and W. P. Rnrch as stewards, James Milton as starter, and J. B. Campbell as racing secretary.
