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ORIENTAL PARK RACING FLOURISHING. New Rule Adopted Making All Selling Races Hereafter Claiming Races — Bedwells Plans. l.y T. K. Lynch. Havana. Cuba. February 13. The patronage- here has improved wonderfully over previous meetings and money is certainly plentiful in the ring at Iri nt.il Park at present. The management during the- past few clays received several letters from pern :.s in .Now Orh-aiis asking, in the event of rawing here, if they could cut in. The bapreaaioa si-ems to have gaaa alio. id that the ring here was limited to a e-crtain numbe-i- and the- Cuba - American Jockey Club wishes to make- a positive- announcement that the ling is open to all reputable-bookmakers who wish to cut in. The addition of several SScare layers here would liven up the sport e-onsielerably. At present there are eightee n books on. and. with the tourist se-ason BOW at its height. fresh money is in circulation very day. The- class of tourists, who come to Cuba, have money and spend it freely. Naturally the race- course gets its share of their patronage. II. C lie-dwell, after an absence of ten lays, returned to Havana Saturday, lb- waa ratted aortb to arrange his spring plans and pi. tee the fifteen horse-, he- wintered at his farm at Laurel, Maryland, in training. Among those that he left at home were Sir E igar. Tyrant. Mannkiu. Katherine Oray. Pesky. Hiieliaiian Brady, th" jumpers E.irly l.igiit. IliiMiin ami tin- eld campaigner Pardner, also some imported three-year-olds which he purchased of August Belmont last fall. Pardner has been fired and blistered and his legs are said to look .-, good : m the day he was foah-el. In the event of this good horse going sound, it will take a pretty shifty plater to beat him. At the- conclusion of the Nl w Orleans meeting Joe Tigue will probably go to Maryland to look after these horses. At present they are- in charge of -Long Taw." who was one of A. P.. Dades assistant starters a few seasons back. At the- reaaeal of Btoaager H. D. Brown, the Bar mil n here- oted on a couple- of rules in regard to selling races and the one which made every selling race- a claiming race passed by an over win -lining majority. Claiming Race Rule Passed. The rule which passed was: "In claming races all horses are- subject to claim only by owners of boraea running in the race or their authorized agents, but for their own account only, except an owner, who has lost a horse in a claiming race, may claim one horse for each one claimed from him. A hone claimed shall not In- delivered by the original owner until authorization shall be given by the secretary. All horses, iacloding the winiu-r. may be claimed for the selling price, plus the value of the stake or purse. Every claim must be Hied in writing with the clerk af the scales within fifteen minutes after the result of the race has beea announced, and if more- than one person should claim the same horse, they shall cast lots lor priority in the- pre Oct ate of the st-waids. No person can claim his own horse, nor more than one Bene. If the stewards shall be of the opinion that any person is not claiming for his own account, they shall rcepiire him to make an affidavit that he is dafag so and if upon proof he has made- false affidavit he- will be ruled off Bad prosecuted for perjury. Except by permission of the stewards, no bene claimed out of a selling race shall be sobl or traiisfirreel to anyone within thirty days of the day it was claimed, except in another selling or claiming race, nor shall such horse remain in the same stable or under the- care or management of its former owne;- or trainer." This rule- got fifty-six votes and it will go into effect immedi idly. Christopher J. Fit:: teraht, the presiding steward, has been absent from his post during tiie pas; week. When the- dlffereaccs between the United Stat--- .;ai Cermany came up it put a damper on the- eontem-platoel horse- show, which was to have- beea held here the- latter part of Pehtuarj. Most of the exhibitors are lu-avily interested in stocks and large enterprises and under the conditions they could not spare the time or take the risk of shipping valuable horses out of the- country. Mr. Fitz Geralds mission to New York was to confer with tin- gentlemen who had made entries and it was in deference- to their ree,insts that the gor-e rnmiiit postponed the show until Best January. Mr. Fitz Cc raid retaracd on Tu -selay and immediately resumed his post in the stewards stand.
