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GREAT CROWD WITNESSES HAVANA RACING. Havana, Cuba, December 17. Superb racing was witnessed by the largest crowd of the season at Oriental Park today, many of the contests being productive of head finishes, no fewer than five horses being aligned in the fifth race, which was won by Father Kelly. It was nnybodys race up to the last stride. Refugee would have won his race but for being waited with, Al Pierce getting up to win in the last stride. In trying to place him, Ball swung the colt in at the eighth post and struck his sore ankle, causing him to swerve and costing him a length of ground and the race,
