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j 1 i SPENCEi HAVANA FEATURE TO SPENCE His ThreeYearOld Rafferty Wins the San Juan Handicap Beats Skiles Knob and Sir Wel Wellons I lons in Preliminary to the theChristmas Christmas Handicap I HAVAXA Cuba December 21 Kay Spences threeyearold Raffcrty accounted for the San Juan Handicap the feature of todays sport at Oriental Park and a preliminary to the Christmas Handicap to be run next Wednesday There were five start ¬ ers in todays race Skiles Knob and Sir Wellons sharing favoritism They were away to a good start with Skiles Knob showing the way closely followed by Sir Wellons and Rafferty while the BuxtonMarrone entry Daddys Choice and Sasin made utt the rear This order was maintained to the stretch with Rafferty racing on the extreme outside Turning for home Lnnsford brought the Spence representative to the inside and when Skiles Knob began to tire from his early efforts in pace making Rafferty disposed of him after a sharp brush in the last sixteenth and then drew away in the final strides stridesImproved Improved weather conditions were reflected in the increased attendance the largest crowd of the week being present Activity in the betting ring was brisk and the volume of speculation large largeFrank Frank Weir scored a double when his Helen Atkin wou the sixth race Xib having carried his colors to success in the fourth Both winners were ridden by DreyerA jockey Dreyer A steady improvement was noted in the track today and the going should be fairly good tomor rov but it willbc several divi before li track is fast again againJake Jake Holtman the former starter who is now racing a stable of horses here furnished the win ¬ ner of the opening race in the filly Crystal Day She was the public choice and put up a good per ¬ formance After racing on the extreme outside to the stretch turn she dashed across to the inside and taking the lead easily held Great Gull safe through the stretch stretchDoctor Doctor Davis quoted at 10 to 1 in the betting provided a surprise in the second by scoring in easy fashion over Marmon and Croix dOr The latter was first choice began flatfooted and was crowded hack then after closinir a gap that landed him in first place tired and lost place honors in the final strides stridesAnother Another upset came in the following nice when Hops was beaten by Waterford which after many attempts finally won a race He took the lead on the stretch turn and drawing away easily main ¬ tained his advantage to the end while Hops was doing his best to withstand the speedy end rusli of Glorine GlorineAgain Again in the fourth race the backers of favorites were given another jolt when Xib took the measure of Lackrose the latter tiring badly at the end and barely PierrotAmong saving second place from Pierrot Among the newcomers today was Frank Stein hart who just arrived from the States
