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PLANS FOR TRANSPORTATION TO CUBA Manager Brown to Return from Havana and An ¬ nounce Details of Arrangements Made Cincinnati O October 19 Charles H Lansdale who is looking after the interesls of the Cuba American Jockey Club in the west has received word from Havana that II D Brown president and gen ¬ eral manager of the Oriental Park track where racing is conducted each winter for a period of some one hundred days will return lo the Uniled States from a flying Irip lo Cuba during the coming week and will visit this locality to confer with horsemen who may l e planning to race their slables iu Cuba during the winter racing season scheduled to open on Thanksgiving day November 28 and continue for one hundred or more days daysManager Manager Brown went lo Havana a week or two ago lo look over some important Improvements that have been made during the past summer at the clubs beautiful racing plant in Marianao a suburb of Jlavana Upon his return details of the arrangements for the transportation of American stables to Cuba next month will be announced It is expected that they will closely follow the ar ¬ rangements of last year Manager Brown having made the announcement that horsemen may count upon their being as good as then in spite of war condilions and possibly beller bellerThe The recent announcement of the stake and purse program for the Cuban season has made a most fav ¬ orable impression upon American horsemen and indications are not lacking that the movement of stables to Cuba from this counlry next month will be a recordbreaker Wilh Ihirleen slakes ranging in value from 1200 added to 2000 added and many overnight purses of 000 to 800 daily offered by Ihe Oriental Park management horsemen who have been in the practice of racing in Cuba since Hie establishment of the sporl there under its present auspices in 1915 are planning to return there this coming winter to a man and they will be re ¬ inforced by many a newcomer including some important eastern stables whose presence will tend to improve Ihe qualily of Ihe racing racingMINIMTJM MINIMTJM PURSE TO BE 500 500Last Last winter the minimum pwse value at Oriental Park was 400 During the approaching season there will be no purse of less than 500 Manager Brown having decided upon this substantial increase both on account of the growing importance of Cuban racing and to enable the horsemen who take part in the meeting to meet the increased expenses of trans ¬ portation and other mounting costs of maintaining a racing stable growing out of the world war warMr Mr Lansdale has just returned from a Irip to Detroil where he supervised the shipment to Cuba of fifteen parimntuel machines of the Haclimeisler type recently purchased by the CubaAmerican Jockey Club to be added to the parimulnel equip ¬ ment at Oriental Park This will practically double the parimutuel facilities at Ihe Cuban Irack Lasl year seventeen machines were used and at times proved inadequate to handle the volume of specu ¬ lation The bookmakers will operate at the Cuban Inicks as in the past in competition with the iniituel machines enabling patrons of the track to follow their own inclinations as to which method of backing llieir fancies Ihey may make use of ofA A large consignment of hay and oals to be used as feed for the horses going from this country lo engage in Ihe racing has already been senl lo Cuba together with the mntucl tickets badges and other paraphernalia necessary to Ihe conduct of the long meeting It is expected that the movement of horses from the Kentucky tracks to Havana next month will be especially heavy There will also be extensive shipments from Maryland A wire from Atlanta yesterday brought the information that something like one hundred horses that have been engaged in minor racing throughout the soulh have galhered there and are awaiting facilities for shipment lo Ihe Cuban Irack
