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HAVANA RACING RESUMED Settlement of Strike Permits the Reopening of Oriental Park Transportation Facilities Again AgainNormal Normal and Big Crowd Turns TurnsOut Out to See the Sport HAVANA Culm December 13 With the strike settled and transportation facilities again normal racing was resumed at Oriental Jark today Splendid weather was a factor in bringing out a big attendance which was treated to an afternoon of exhilarating and enjoyable snort snortEl El Coronet an Englishbred gelding by Manijax Merry Match furnished a surprise in the opening race by winning at the good odds of 15 to 1 El Coronel put un a fine performance After dis ¬ placing The Six Hundred from the lead he gamely held on to his slight advantage and successfully resisted the closing challenge of Croix dOr The latter was going fastest of all at the end endItollin Itollin Laird accounted for the second race He was favorite and well backed Lycia offered this most serious opposition imt could not overtake the winner in a hard fought finish finishMal Mal el Trask was first in the third with Cailaway and Rora getting the short end of the purse pursePerigourdine Perigourdine was another favorite to score Hull man bringing her home ahead of Miss Oovc and Leota in the fourth John W Klein was best in the fifth and beat Yenghee and Helen Atkin in good style styleThe The stallion Froglegs which lias not raced since 1913 having been in the stud since then is scheduled to make his reappearance on the turf tomorrow at Oriental Park where he will carry the colors of J H Itespess who purchased him at a weeding out sale during the summer rA number ofKentucky horses are carded to make their initial start of the meeting tomorrow and from now on it is expected that the fields will be much larger as the majority of the horses here are in racing condition conditionDaring Daring the holidays there will ba racing every day including Mondays MondaysThe The remains of the late W F Doc Martin who died here Wednesday morning as a result of an attack of pneumonia contracted while looking after the shipment of G W Lofts horses from Howie Md will be shipped to Lexington Ky tomorrow for internment internmentThe The selling plater Soldier was claimed by Col J De Estnimpes after he beat Bill Simmons in the sixth race on Tuesday last lastFrank Frank Bruen and Al Austin were arrivals from Kentucky this morning morningBellringer Bellringer the favorite in the sixtli race went lame during the running and Piekenswas forced to dismount after he pulled up
