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HAVANA STAKES FILL WELL i 1 Horsemen Make Liberal Entries to Coming Feature Attractions. Money Scores His Fourth Straight Victory of Meeting Double for W. Dondas. HAVANA. Cuba, December 19. Thirty-three nominations were made for tin- Cuban Derbv and thirty-eight for the Grand National Handicap, tin; two 1,000 added stakes tliat will be run at Oriental Park during the present mooting. The stake looks showing the nominations to the various stakes were distributed anion.? the horsemen yesterday and disclosed tin information that all the stakes filled extremely well. The Antilles Stakes received sev.-enty-six entries and the Marianno Handicap attracted seventy-five, while the nominations to the other events ranged from thirty upward. The dates for the running of the stake features will he shortly announced: The consistent sprinter Money scored his fourth straight victory of the meeting when he accounted for the all-aged nice, at three-quarters of a mile, that served as the main attraction of todays sjwrt at Oriental. Iark. The Williams Tiros. racer, ridden by Kederis, showed a high order of speed, raced Ruby into defeat and held Lackawanna safe in a sharp last eighth drive. Currency, the outsider in the race, ran well up in the early stages, but had a rough time of it, else he might have made it interesting for the winner. YV. Dondas furnished the winners of two of the afternoons races, lSuster Clark in the third and Byrne in the sixth. Die latter was forced to the limit, to ."withstand the rush of Silver Sandals, which; :after,ilropji;ng back after-TOurming- the""far turn, came again and was going fastest of all at the end. For an off day. such as Friday is generally, there was a surprisingly large crowd present. The speculatively inclined public found little cause to rejoice over the days results, as aside from Moneys victory all the other favorites were beaten. Count Boris, from the stable of Kay Spsnee, and with T. Murray in the saddle, was the preference of the public in the opening dash. After flattering his admirers by opening up what appeared to lis a safe lend rounding the far turn he suddenly dashed their hopes to the ground by tiring in the last eighth and fell a victim to the iowerfnl closing challenge of White Crown. The latter was skillfully ridden a ml Crumps strong finish contributed to the downfall of the favorite. Whatever hopes the backers of Helen Atkin entertained in the second were short lived, as Col. Harrison quickly dashed to the front and made every post a winning one, bidding the favorite safe at all stages. BULGERS RACE A DISAPPOINTMENT. Again were the followers of form doomed to disappointment when Bulger finished third to Huster Clark and Frcenmiith; in the third. Buster Clark made a show of his opposition in this race, lending by a wide margin throughout, with his rider easing him up at. the end. Another decided upset came in the fifth race. Woodthrush. the heavily backed favorite, failing dismally. The winner turned up in John W. Klein, which, after racing fcrwardly all the way, disposed of Gordon Kuss?ll. the pacemaker, when entering the stretch and drew away at the end. Tim entire stable of L. A. Fay, consisting of Tidal. Aerial, The Snob and Adulation will be Fold in the paddock next Saturday. At the same time the Annonla Stable will dispose, of .Grey Rump and Red. while Magic Memory and Poniard will also be sold. The eight good horses F. J. Nolan sent here will run in the interest of .1. .1. Maher, a close friend of Mr. Nolan. The latter is expected in Havana shortly with a party of friends. Naomi Walton broke her bridle as the field reached the post in the first race, forcing C. Martin, her rider, to dismount. The incident delayed the start somewhat. Ollie Martin and King K. both fell lame in the second race and will not be able, to race again for some time. Mnnager II. I. Brown of Oriental Park has been indicted on a charge of "frustrated homicide." The offense is not bailable and Brown has been remanded to prison pending the outcome of the wounds of Alberta Iiedra. who was shot at the Oriental Park race truck a few days ago. Iiedra. whose condition continues to show improvement, charges Brown with having shot him. Brown claims that the shouting was accidental. John W. Pnngle sold to B. E. Graham the two-year-old colt Little Me. a son of Lord Rock Sand -The 1et. Jockey Chlavetta lost his eight-pound apprentice allowance when he won witli Revelry James yesterday, that lKing his fifth winning mount. Hereafter he is entitled only to the five-pound apprentice allowance.
