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DIMITRI WINS IN FAST TIME AT HAVANA Runs Mile and Twenty Yards in One Second Slower Time Than American Record for Distance HAVANA Cuba March 17 Dimitri the Peter Quince gelding which lias been running in sprint races all winter today showed that ho could go a long route as well when he made a runaway affair of the fifth race He ran the mile and twenty yards in 140 within one second of the American record for the distance distanceThe The program at Oriental Park this afternoon was framed to suit the poorer class of horses The best field which went to the post was in tho third a dasli of threequarters of n mile The start was one of starter Miltons best efforts The field raced in a compact bunch for a quarter of a mile when Phcdodcii drew away The latter showed in front until the last fifty yards where Diadi came through on the inside closing with a rush and winning going away Wise awayWise Joan scored her maiden victory at this meeting when she won the first by half a dozen lengths from Hoie In the second Phoneta came from behind in the stretch run easily disposed of the tiring Syrian which had set a fast pace from itfie start and won drawing clear Luzzi was hard ridden to stall off Lola in the fourth and won by a scant length Lady Jane Grey defeated Beauty Shop by a length in the sixth The winner mada all the pace James Heffering the Canadian sportsman who has been racing his stable at Oriental Park in charge of M Lowenstein leaves for his home jii Toronto tomorrow after spending several weeks in Cuba Arthur Garcia wellknown in athletic circles in Havana has been granted a jockeys license and will be seen in the colors of Senor A II Diaz some day this week Phedoden changed hands after being defeated J T Strite making the claim for 700 from UV J Brown BrownJockey Jockey Imes was suspended by the stewards foe tcu toys for rough riding
