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DAILY RACING AT HAVANA Sport Is Resumed on Mondays Before Good Sized Crowd. ; Several Surprises Develop During Afternoon Dragon Kock Wins Impressively. HAVANA, Cuba. February 17. For Hit first time since the holidays there was racing on Monday nt Oriental Park, and a fiiir sized crowd was on Ji.-mtl to enjoy it. Racing will lie continued on every day or the week until the end of the meeting. Many strongly suHrted favorites were upset during the afternoon, the greatest suriirise coming wlien Coison and Rlumlcl, the Dardeu-Spence entry, failed to finish in the money in the second race. Flunk I. Weirs Kamest. just, out of the maiden class, led all the way and lasted Ions enough to win bv iialf :i length from Ca hallo. George W. Lort started Wheat Cakes and Cavan Poy for the first time. Hie former started in the Hiiro" race anil showed some speed, hut was short. Tail Shot won this race, lending the favorite. Storm Bound, throughout, but was tiring at the end and had to b:? ridden out. Cavan ISoy, after leading to tiie stretch in the fifth race, was beaten iulte easily by Dragon Rock, a half-brother to the noted S.mford horse George Smith. Steve Wida, the youiig apprentice, rode Dragon Itock and put up a good ride on the winner, Jake Holtmr.ns colors were seen in front when his gelding .Teffery led home Senator James and eig: t others in the fourth race. Jeffery set a fast lac" all the way. and, although lie had to be shaken up near the finish was never in trouble. Old Pajaroita II. scored in the opening dash, but iv a lucky, as Prince Bonero was gaining on him. and would. Jiave,-woa in. another, mtrldo.. "- - - C. T. Worthington claimed Mabel Trask yesterday for 00. A race for army officers will lie an additional feature to the program which has been arranged for tlie Cuban Independence day next Monday. Dragon Itock was reclaimed by U. Howard, his former owner, for 950.
