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PLANS FOR HAVANA RACING Cuban Meeting to Begin Thanks ¬ giving and Close Next Spring Attractive List of Stake Events Announced Liberal Increase in Overnight Purses Baltimore Md October S Important announce ¬ ments outlining plans for the Cuban racing season of the coming winter were made today by H 1 lirown general manager of the CubaAmerican Jockey Club under whose auspices racing is con ¬ ducted Mich winter on an elaborate scale at Ori ¬ ental Park one of Havanas show places Mr Itrowii nteiitljr arrived hen to begin preliminary irf aratioiis for the shipment of American stables to Havana after having spent several weeks motor ins through Quebec Maine and the eastern states and he is satisfied from what conferences he has already had with horsemea racing in Maryland and New York that the movement of horses to Cuba for the roming seasons racing in that winter para ¬ dise will 1 e the most pretentious since the intro ¬ duction of racing into Cuba on its present scale in 115 115According According to Manager Browns announcement the Havana meeting will open on Thanksgiving day Thursday November 28 and continue for one hun ¬ dred or more racing days This will cover the rjitirc cold weather period of the northern winter and will bring the meeting to a close late in March unless it is thought advisable to extend the racing beyond the one hundred days that is estab ¬ lished as the minimum minimumAn An announcement of the utmost importance to the horsemen who contemplate engaging in the racing at the Cuban metropolis is that purse and stake vnUiesrSvtnilmnnaterially increased as compared with last year This iactiiia Mr Brown explains was tll increasing importance i highly satisfactory basis basisand and in recognition of the fact that shipping ex ¬ penses and oilier costs of maintaining a racing stable have generally increased as a result of ab ¬ normal conditions conditionsLast Last year the minimum purse value at Oriental Park was 400 During the coming season the minimum purse will be 500 and purses of this type will be for the cheaper sort of horses The values of the overnight handicaps and special al ¬ lowance races will be increased to 600 700 and 800 Thirteen stakes all of the added money type will be opened for entries to close on No ¬ vember 4 with values ranging from 1200 added to 2000 added The first stake race will not be run until Christinas day in order to permit the ii liiaatization ami fitting of all the stake candi ¬ dates that may be included in the shipments of ftables to the island Six or more races will be run daily dailyDetails Details of the plans for the transportation of the horses to Cuba are now l eing worked out and will be announced shortly The facilities Mr Brown jlincunees will be as good if not better than in the past All the preliminary arrangements here iiiil at Washington for the opening of the meeting jiiid the participation of American stables in it are shaping up in a thoroughly satisfactory manner mannerBACES BACES FOB TWOYEABOLDS TWOYEABOLDSThe The Jockey Club having raised the ban against early twoyearold racing Manager Brown announced that as many races of this tyi e will be offered is conditions will warrant the number depending upon how many of the baby racers are shipped to Cuba In addition to the twelve stake of last vear which ara renewed with increased values a stake for twoyearolds will be provided The com ¬ plete list of the stakes follows followsFor For twoyearolds and over at time of entry entryPresident President Menocal Handicap 2000 added one mile and onequarter onequarterIndependence Independence Handicap 2000 added one mile and oneeighth oneeighthChristmas Christmas Handicap 1500 added one mile and fifty yards yardsNew New Years Handicap 1200 added one mile and Ihreosixteenths IhreosixteenthsCarnival Carnival Handicap 1200 added one mile mileOriental Oriental Park Handicap 1500 added one mile ami onesixteenth onesixteenthCubanAmerican CubanAmerican Handicap 1200 added three quarters of a mile mileMorro Morro Castle Handicap 1200 added three quarters quartersHavana Havana Stakes claiming 1200 added one mile and onesixteenth onesixteenthMarianao Marianao Stakes claiming 1200 added three quarters quartersAntilles Antilles Stakes claiming 1JOO added three quarters quartersCaribbean Caribbean Stakes claiming 1500 added one mile and onesixteenth onesixteenthFor For twoyearolds of 1919 1919Juvenile Juvenile Stakes 1200 onehalf mile mileIt It is announced that all selling races will be run under claiming conditions and that the handicapping and splitting of entries will be done by a board of three under the name plan that was followed successfully last year the board consisting of the presiding steward the presiding judge and racing secretary Incidentally it may be mentioned that ihe imK rtant positions of presiding steward starter iud racing secretary for the approaching meeting will l e filled by their incninlxmts of last year C J Kitz Gfralil James F Milton and Martin Nathansou Whose ability in their respective departments had much to dei with the brilliant outcome of last years meeting General Manager Brown plans to depart for Havana within a few days to inspect the progress of improvements which are being carried out at Ori ¬ ental Park which Charles K Flynn the resident secretary lias just written him are nearly com ¬ pleted He will l c absent on his Cuban trip some two weeks and upon his return he will make a trip to Kentucky to confer with horsemen from that sec liou who are planning to race in Cuba
