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NEW PATRONAGE STANDARDS Established at Havana Despite DespiteUnfavorable Unfavorable Conditions Racing Takes Strong Hold on SportLoving Cubans Mon ¬ day Program Featureless Havana Cuba January 7 Notwithstanding that climatic anil track conditions have boon less favor aljo than in former years the current meeting of tlio CubaAmerican Jockey Club at Oriental 1ark emit hints to sot a new standard for patronage and it bvcomes more and more evident with each pass jng day that racing is now so well established as Jim of the foremost sports of the Cubans that it would entirely practicable to conduct a meeting if considerable duration here without any outside issistanci in the way of patronage except that incidental to the presence of the necessary horse mon The foremost residents of Cuba have taken up racing as a pastime with the enthusiasm that jponplu of their race display over anything in which they become genuinely interested and this is a happy augury for the future of the sport in Cuba The president of the republic members of his cab ¬ inet most of the foreign diplomats accredited to Cuba and the leaders of Cuban finance and society have ill placed the stamp of their approval on the sport by their presence not only on special occa ¬ sions but in most instances frequently thus at ¬ testing their real interest in the racing racingGeneral General Manager Brown and the executives in charge of the various departments of the sjiort sire doing their part to make the racing as attrac ¬ tive as possible It may be asserted without fear of contradiction that nowhere are greater efforts made to keep the sport clean The management jsoes to unusual lengths day after day to safe gmmV tVie facing hi every possible way and the results are plainly apparent in the way of fonnful results The local public as a natural result of the constant efforts of the management to pro ¬ tect their interests have the utmost confidence in the honesty of the sport and nothing is left undone to retain that confidence confidenceWhile While below zero temperatures were being re ¬ corded in the United States during the closing days of the old year the thermometer hereabouts dropped to a minimum of some sixty degrees This is as cold ts it ever gets in Cuba and is regarded by the natives as extraordinary They prefer to remain indoors under such conditions ordinarily but still they huve been coining out to enjoy the racing in gen ¬ erous numbers which goes to show how thoroughly they must be interested interestedUNUSUAL UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MUD RUNNERS RUNNERSThe The mud runners have been afforded unusual op ¬ portunities to show their merits here so far this season but the chances are that this is a condition that will speedily pass as far more than the nor miil amount of rain has already fallen since the opening of the season The time is at hand when the cream of the Cuban winter may be expected with warm genial days bright sunshine anil an litter absence of rain rainManuel Manuel Luciano Diaz one of the wealthiest mem ¬ bers of the CubaAmerican Jockey Club died a fiv days ago immediately after his horse Golden Chance had won the first race that has gone to the credit of a Cuban owner since the opening of Hie season Senor Diaz income ran into several million dollars annually its principal source being the richest copper mine on tin island It is prob ¬ able that had he lived Senor Diaz would have been encouraged by his success in racing to expand his interest in the sinirt sinirtJockey Jockey Eddie Taplin who is riding here has con ¬ tracted to ride during the coining summer for J K I Koss whose formidable stable is being man ¬ aged by II G Bedwell Bedwell and TapHn have always made up a successful combination combinationW W V Moss has succeeded Harry Ilerdel as trainer for 1 W Pangle llenlel will handle some horses for himself himselfAl Al Austin who has been remarkably successful here with a small stable is planning to dispose of all the horses he brought her before he returns to the Inited States in Mareji to take up several young KentuckyAlbert horses he has turned jnit in Kentucky Albert Gascoigne is among the latest arrivals lie came from New Orleans It is his first visit hero ami he was influenced to make the trip because of the formfnlness of the racing at Oriental Park Gascoigne is a wellknown American Itandlcapper ItandlcapperThe The Camagwy Handicap todays feature on the program at Oriental Park went to Sun God which came from behind in the stretch and beat his oppo ¬ nents in easy fashion Orinulu was second and lloprobate third thirdThe The races were run over a sloppy track and small fields went to the post in a majority of the races The best finish of the afternoon came with the running of the second race In which Fickle Fancy beat Wealthy Ann by a scant head The lat ¬ ter was made the medium of a plunge and while she was beaten she came with a great burst of speed and might have beaten the winner in a few more strides stridesThe The stewards after investigating the spill in the second race of yesterday found that jockey Col ¬ lins was responsible for the accident aud suspended him for fifteen days daysK K C Griffith owner of Charrneuse Seylla and other horses racing here arrived from Jacksonville Fla FlaJames James Hefferiug owner of the threeyearold Marauder which won the Cuban American Handi ¬ cap stake yesterday cabled that he would arrive some day next week weekFred Fred Ilkhard and Thomas Hare two wellknown Canadian sportsmen are also due in a few days
