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JOCKEY DREYER RIDES THREE WINNERS Finishes Third with Two of His Other Mounts, which Pay Remunerative Odds to Show. HAVANA, Cuba, January IS. Followers of jockey Dreyer, who has been riding in particularly good form this winter, reaped a harvest this afternoon when lie landed his first three mounts winners, and in" the following two races finished third on horses which paid remunerative odds to show. His winning mounts were Cardome, Linkstrap and Lack-rose. The track was in cood condition and should be fast for Sundays good program, which includes the Oriental Park Handicap of SI, 500 added as the principal feature, with the HipiKidrome Handicap as an additional attraction. In the stake event a high-class field of the best horses at the track is scheduled to start and a stirring contest is looked for. A speedy band of sprinters will furnish the contention in the Hippodrome Handicap, in which Senor Diaz Tracery colt Orestes, which was a whale of a racer at Oriental Park last winter, will make his first appearance of the meeting. The best finish of todays program came with the running of the last race, when Flare, after a long stretch run, managed to last long enough to win by a neck from the fast closing High Tide. Silver Sandals was third, another head away. The last two suffered from interference, which may have prevented them from leating the winner. Kay Spence disposed of the filly Terible Miss at private sale to R. Moran. II. J. Kennedy claimed the plater Rill Simmons on Friday for 00. C. W. Mickelwaite arrived from Florida, and judge Shelleys family also arrived from Kentucky. F. C. Raxter, owner of Mabel Trask, which has won several races here this winter, has been called home to Kentucky and left yesterday. There is considerable rivalry among trainers here to see who will have the honor of saddling the first two-year-old winner of the meeting. The baby races will be inaugurated next week.
