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HAVANA TRACK CONDITIONS CHANGE. Heavy Rains of Thursday Night Give Mud Runners First Opportunity at Oriental Park This Season. Havana. Cuba. February 2. — Horses displaying a partiality for soft going had their first opportunity this winter at Oriental Park today, but. despite the heavy rains that fell during the night, the track conditions were fairly good. There was a soft cushion an I the going was a bit slow. The program was made up of a series of selling races in which well-matched contenders went to the post. Keen contests were in order, some of the finishes being particularly close. Hapenny beat the odds-on favorite. Moncreif. a head in the third race, while Malabar just managed to get up in time to beat Quia by a nose in the fourth Mb The latter was ridden by It. Wingfield, an apprentice lad, who put up a particularly strong finish. In the fifth nee Ed Garrison just lasted long enough to withstand the challenge of Fnity, which be beat a short head. Sixty six new stalls are being built to accommodate horses that are being shipped here for the horse show, which opens at Oriental Park February 24. A. F. Dayton lias purchased at the private sale of J. W. Hedrick the colt Polonium. Quill was claimed by T. H. Wilson today for .
