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GREAT DAY FOR THE PUBLIC WeilBacked Horses Score Clean Sweep at Oriental Park First Time Starter Sarasota Wins WinsOpening Opening Race After Being BeingLeft Left at the Post HAVANA Cuba December IS Well backed horses swept tie card at Oriental 1ark tliis after ¬ noon The public played havoc with the layers bankrolls It was a happy joyous crowd that cheered the winners as they galloped home in front of their iipiMinents Heavy coin still prevailed but with the promise of settled weather the going should daysC be in g nd condition again in a few days C T Vorthiiigton introduced to the patrons of Oriental Park a speedy filly in Sarasota a daughter i f Itapid Water Mettie Itoreaud which won the opening race in sensational style She propped at the start and was left at the post but her rider sent her after her opponents and although racing wide most of the way she overhauled them In the stretch and gamelv outstayed Surplice and Quick ¬ step in a fast finish The filly had worked well and was the public choice consequently her victory was popularBrown decidedly popular Brown Baby scor d in runaway style in the src ond race She iuickly assumed a big lead and ex ¬ perienced no trouble maintaining it throughout while Quin which was counted on to furnish the laost serious contention failed badly after running forwardly to the stretch stretchBunicc Bunicc was another of the public choices that had easy sailing today the old marc winning tne third nice after leading by a wide margin through ¬ out Unar had a rough time of it in this nice repeatedly stumbling and meeting considerable inter ¬ ference ferencePrank Prank Weir added another victory to his credit when Ambassador III took the measure of Avion in the fourth after a well contested struggle Joe Stahr seemed hoi elessly anchored in the diffi ¬ cult going and ran below his true form The formThe easiest victory of the day and for that matter of the meeting was that of Mabel Trasks in the fifth The daughter of Jack Atkin won by twenty lengths with her rider pulling her up at the finish finishThe The closing race at one mile and a sixteenth was nothing more than a canter for St Jude the Kentuckyowned threeyearold the property of James I Boss superintendent of the Lexington track cncjuutoring no opposition worthy of the name nameAn An unusual incident in connection with todays sport was that all but the winner of the last race were of the gentler sex St Jude being the only successful one of the masculine gender and he is a gelding by the way 7 Maher and T Dreyer shared the riding honors of the day each piloting two winners winnersTrainer Trainer W McDaniel lias received a cablegram from jockey W Knapp stating that lie will arrive in Havana on Friday
