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STABLES BEGIN TO LEAVE HAVANA Only About 200 Horses Will Be Left in Few Days to Continue Oriental Park Meeting1 Havana Cuba March 2O An extension of the meeting at Oriental Iark until April 4 was recently announced by the Cuba American Jockey Club Hiero may be a further extension of a day or two and possibly the meeting may run until the middle of May In the latter event there will be but three raning days a week after April 4 the idea being to provide some racing for the horsemen who may elect to remain here nntil the opening of the spring meetings in Camilla Already horsemen are making preparations for the coming seasons campaign in the Inited Slates The stables of T P Hayes and Tom McDowell were tile first to depart Mr MoPowcll himself departed for Lexington on Mon ¬ day and his horses left on Tuesday in charge of p P Hayes Messrs McDowell and Hayes both won peural races here and each showed up what promise ° shifty twoyearolds in Kinney and Poppee The former worked extremely well at Oriental Park and won his only start liere in im ¬ pressive style This youngster is by Dick Welles Lady Strathmore a mare that Mr Hayes raced with great success and holder of the mile and an eighth record at the old St Louis Fair Grounds track Kinney is a rapid breaker and runs like ti seasoned racer He easily disposed of his oppo ¬ sition in his only start and Mr Hayes has hopes of tho colt showing up well In some of the fixtures in Kentucky Mr McDowell does not profess to have much faith in Poppee but it would not be surpris ¬ ing to tiid this youngster holding its own in the earlier races for twoyearolds in Kentucky Mr McDowell claimed that Popjwo showed less than any of the yearlings he tried out last fall and was the least promising If this is a fact then the tail Kentuckian will cut some figure this year with his twoyearolds As a matter of fact lie claims that he has the best stable this season he ever had Mr McDowell paid some fancy prices for yearlings last summer He purchased several of the Haggln bred youngsters and it is possible that the Haggin state may be interested in their running qualities Jockey Ted Koerner will probably do Mr McDow ¬ ells riding tills year He was anxious to give the 1id every opportunity while here and was satisfied Hint he hud regained his form Speaking of Koer iier Mr McDowell said that he had great respect for Koerners ability as a rider and that whenever he hail the mount on any of his horses he always felt confident that he would get a good ride rideOn On Monday a big shipment is due to leave for Howie This consignment will be made up of eight cars and will include the stubles of 11 G Bedwell J O Talbott Larry Carey William Walker Phil Hyams 1 S Ownbey William Biruie James Arthur II O Comstock A G Blakeley Walter Congdon and W C Westmoreland Over 200 horses will remain over until the conclusion of the meetirsr The fact that the lohnsonWillard light will be held at the race track on April 4 means that many will be inlineneed to remain over who otherwise would return to the United States sooner Jack Curley who Is promoting the fight reports that several big parties will come down by special boats from the States Tho biggest delega ¬ tion will come south from Xew York on the Minne haha There will he 400 in this party Special ex ¬ cursions will be run to Havana from all points in Florida Alabama and South Carolina and Douiinick Tortorich will head the New Orleans delegation on a specially chartered boat These boats will re ¬ main in Havana harlwr for four days The fight is sheduled to be held at 11 oclock in the morning and the races will follow at the conclusion of the contest The Menocal Handicap will lie the big attraction in a racing way that day This stake is named in honor of the president of the republic who lias donated a handsome silver trophy which will be presented to the owner of the winning horse horseJ J W Hedrick has been active In Celling races here since C P Winfrey bid up Czar Michael having run up several horses since then and claimed a couple He has mated some of the mures he claimed to his Itock Sand stallion lielamoiir At the conclusion of the racing here he has decided to retire Klizabeth Harwcod and Susan B to the stud Both these mares have been mated with Uelamonr UelamonrBefore Before leaving for Kentucky Frank B Rospess purchased from J O Talbott the Nasturtium Any Day mare Floral Day The Hamburg mare Moi saiit in the same stable will also be disposed of for breeding purposes and will probably go to Ken KenH H V Comstock who lias a big band of twoyear olds here has decided to retire as a breeder Mr Comstock has a number of highlybred mares on his ranch in California and the stallion Salvation These together with the yearlings will IKS sold during the summer Mr Comstocks idea being to dispose of them at private sale saleMike Mike Mitchell the ball player who has been em ¬ ployed here all winter in the mutuel department announced a ftw days ago that he had retired from the diamond Mitchell was a great favorite with Cincinnati fans and lust season plnyed great ball for tho Washington team Mitchell has been a high salaried player for a number of years and is thrifty in future lie probably will be a regular attendant at the Kentucky tracks tracksFrank Frank Heeney was an arrival from New ork several days ago and joined the ranks of the layers Heeney is a big operator in the east and will prob ¬ ably remain here until the opening of the Bowie BowieU U IS Stelle is reported to be the biggest winner among the visitors who have operated here this winter lie has been highly successful and is among those who will remain at Oriental Park until the clo e Stelle has added a couple of useful horses tn his string in the threeyearold Vnlas and the old campaigner Donald Macdonald lie now has six in Ills string J Dreyer will do his riding this season seasonWalter Walter Congdon who bought several horses here has disposed of a majority of them Yesterday he sold Lohengrin to G U Bryson and lefore he leaves for Bowie he will probably sell Honey Bee BeeThe The following is a result of a recent sale held in the Oriental Park paddock Volthorpe to L A Orey 125 Milky Way to J Lynch 75 Stnddert to M Mon 50 The Gardener to M Mon 25 Del Pino to J W Hedrick 10 Careo to J Davelon 110 Madeline II to D Q Hernandez 5 Peggy Knnis to P Rucz S5 Charley Brown to H Xeustsidter 255 255H H Xeustadter has a promising apprentice In H Flint Flint is a son of the assistant paddock judgo on the New York tracks and a nephew of the old time rider Bunt Flint FlintTodays Todays racing was without sppcinl Incident Most of the winners scored by big margins Miss Prim Ity and Transport rewarded the followers of lirst choices T Cheek had a successful day winning purses with Miss Primity and Some Kid the latter a recent acquisition
