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I NEXT FEATURE ATTRACTION * Antilles Stakes to Be Run at Oriental Park Sunday. _ — _♦ High Gear Smashes Three -Quarters Mile Track Record — Carmody Wins Three. a HAVANA. Cuba. January S.— The next stake event to be run at Oriental Park will be the Antilles Stakes of 812888 added for three-year olds and upward, at three-quarters of a mile, which is scheduled for decision next Sunday. January 11. There were seventy-six m -initiations for ths race and the field will most likely be made up from the following: Blazeaway. The Blue Duke. Cromwell. Right Angle. Miss Sweep. Skiles Knob. Manokin. Smart Money. Clearing Ip. Rig Smoke. Jack Leary. Gordon Russell. Hubbub, Different Kyes. Hamilton A.. Hoonir. Marse John. Mile. Dazie. Top o th Morning. Pars and Stars, Money. Arthur Middletou and Polar Cub. The Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club is preparing to entertain another immense crowd Sunday as the tourist colony here at Havana has l eeu considerably augmented during the past few days and one of the first places the American tourist visits is Oriental Park. Racing secretary Martin Nathan-son has ;;rranged an attractive program to be run in injunction with the Antilles Stakes. Todays racing served to call particular attention to the wonderful condition the Oriental Park track is in at present. It was never better or faster than right now. as evidenced by the three quarters of II mile in 1:11 by High Gear in winning the third race. I hi- -on of Ivan the Terrible is now -ix years old, and while a speedy horse in his younger days never ran that fast before. He clipped three fifths of a se.i ml off the former track record, which has stood since 1816. Further evidence of the fast track i forthcoming in the time hung up by BBCh ordinary platers as Manganese and Prince Direct in winning the first and second races respectively, each runnins ll n i -quarters of a mile in 1:12%. Jockey J. Carmody was much in the limelight today, with three victories to his credit. His riding of Manganese was an excellent bit of horsemanship and materially helped the old gelding to win. Hi* other successes were on Northern Relic in the fourth and Riverside in the sixth. Kay Spence saddled two of the afternoon winners. both his ow horses, la High Cear and Solid Rock. Kay Spence lost High Gear in the third ran when J. M . Cooper claimed him for 50. Jockeys Mountain and Jarrell were suspended for three and five days respectively for pulling up their mounts after the start in the last race. R. Setty has purchased from K. Cousins the three-year-olds Virgie Lee and Holly Hock. Paddock judge W. W. Lyles is confined to his hotel with a slfarht illness. R. K. Graham has bought from W. C. Weant the horse Our Lester. The Lnglish Admiral. Viscount Jellicne. has accepted the invitation of the Cuba-American Jockey Club to be entertaned one afternoon at the Oriental Park races during his visit to Havana. Jack Doyle, the well-known handicapper. accompanied by his wife, is a late arrival from New York. William Car It tea has sent the horses Schemer. Cash. Lowell and Dtn- Kloethe to W. L. Hatch -ett at Oriental Park. These horses have just been taken up and will not be ready to race for about a month.
