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MUD RUNNERS FAVORED AT HAVANA Public Has Good Day Picking1 Four of the Sis Winners Frank Weir an Arrival HAVANA Cuba Decenilwr 17 Mud runners were again favored by the deep and heavy going whib prevailed at Oriental Park today The public however had a good line on the horses that race best over that kind of track favorites scoring in the second third fourth and fifth races The racesThe Marinosa Handicap a dash of threequarters of a mile tor a nurse of SOO resulted in an easy victory for Skiles Knob which made all the pace and had not Dreyer eased him uy in the last six ¬ teenth lie would have won far off offFrank Frank Weir furnished the winner of the opening dash when his Master liobert filly Marnion led all the way to beat Precious Jewel by a half length It was a sharply contested struggle from start to finish and Marmon displayed rare courage in hold ¬ ing safe the Pangle representative when the latter challenged Lady Langden the favorite quit badly in the last eighth after running prominently from the start startHelen Helen Atkin favorite in the last race was crowded back on the turn out of the backstretch los ¬ ing whatever chance she may have had The win ¬ ner proved to be Arbitrator which raced into a big lead on the far turn and increased it to win by eight lengths Among the arrivals from the States were trainer Frank Weir who has a good stable of horses racing at Oriental Park clso jockeys J Maher and R Davies DaviesFickle Fickle Fancy came right back today after win ¬ ning on Sunday and had tilings her own way in the second scoring in a canter canterMiss Miss Gove with Lunsford in the saddle led all the way in the third never seriously menaced Hops at 20 to 1 in the betting finished second The secondThe Dake and Billy Joe outclassed the others opposed to them in the fourth race the former winning easily after being shaken up sharply when
