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REORGANIZATION IN CUBA ♦ 1 Changes to Come with Transfer of Minority Stock in Havana Track. 0 I New Stockholders Are Prominent Commercially and Socially — Carmody Find of Meeting. ♦ HAVANA. Cuba. January 11. — An important piece of news was announced during the past week which means practically a reorganization of the Cuba American Jockey and Auto Club. It concerns the transfer of the minority interest in the club, which was held by II. D. P.r wn and some of his friends. t,- a coterie of wealthy business men of Havana. Tata deal has been hanging fire for several months and was consummated only after a number of meetings between ! he interested parties. This block of stock was taken over by Lorenzo Queoudu, the representative of the Consolidated Steel Company of Havana and known among the big business men on the Island as the Carnegie of Cuba: Mr. A C. Harrison. Jr.. one of the largest sugar planters on the Island and a man of great wealth: .1. N. Al-leyn. the largest oommi— ion broken of Havana, and Mr. J. /.. Barter, president of the Barter Company, the large-t dealer- and importer- of farming implements ia this part of the world. All of the-e geiitltmen are prominent socially and are members of the American Club, the Country Club, til- Jockey Club and the Inion Club. They are all racing enthusiasts and their aim in joining the lull is to uplift the -port and make the meetings tier* Tine of great social prominence. At the annual meeting of the organization, which is held -i in" time it; April, it is likely that a couple of these gentlemen will be clotted directors of the dull. In the meantime Messrs. Stoneham and Me-Graw. the majority holders of the stock, are working in uiiiseu with these new stockholders and the plans laid out by Mr. Prown regarding improvements ti, the dub house and grounds will be carried out. No in y will be -pared to make the plant more attractive, if tli.it is possible, and every effort will be made to make the race meetings at Oriental Park attractive enough to warrant the big owners up north shipping their racers down here to participate in the sport It i- expected that there will be enough Cuban-bred two year dds by next year to warrant races bring given exclusively for horses bred on the Island. Tiie gentlemen who have just became m-t rested in the club are among those who have made known their intention of entering the ranks of breeders, a- they are anxion- to have their color-carried by horses ,,f their own breeding. J. fJarnaody, a youngster from Queeuu, Long Island, who was rmploy*d by Tom Walsh last year, locks like the ••find" of the meeting. He is as good an apprentice as has been seen in a long thus and t look- a certainty that he will develop iuio a high class jockey. He uses splendid judgment iu a race and is a natural born rider. With some bones he goes right to the front ami rates them in Die lead, while on others he comes from away back, and when ir comes to a finish he is capable of holding his own with the older and more experienced riders. CHIAVETTA WELL THOUGHT OF. W. . Weant also has a promising boy in Chia-Mtta. This lad is a native of New Orleans, where his father has a fruit stand iu one of the markets. lie has been with horses only a year and had his lir-t mount down here. Weant thinks pretty well ol this lad. and lie is not alone in hi- opinion that Cbiavetta will be one of the leading apprentice- I hi- year. Weant has arranged to dispone of a majority of the horses ho brought down hate, and BUM -ome of those he left over in Kentucky. He will retain about a half dozen, which will he shipped to • New Vi rk. where Weant will do his racing next summer. The horses iu the Kay Bpean -table, after showing poor form the first few week- of the meeting, are rounding to and recently they have won quite a few race-. From now on fkaence will no doubt hold hi- own and it would not be surprising .before another month rolls around to find him at the top of the li-t. At present Williams Profilers are the leading owners iu amount of money won by their horses. Last year this stable was iu none too good form. Pete Willianis brought down a different sort of band this year. There were no real good horses among them like Sun God and Faux-Col. but rather a useful band of platers, most of them sprinters. Orestes, the -tar of the A. B. Diaz stable. has been a disappointment. McDaniel lias used a lot of patience with this fellow, but despite hi-efforts Orestes refuses to do hi- best down here. This bone doc- not seem to have his mind mi racing. In-tead. while at the poet, and. for that matter, during the running of a race, he refuses to pa-s one of the opposite -ex. and -everal tunes when it look.d as if he could not lose he had performed dis.ippoini ingly . At the conclusion of the meeting Orestes will be bred to several mares, and it i- just possible that he will be left hero for the summer. C. K. Moore, who is racing here for the first time this winter, is much taken up with Cuba, and says that this is the ideal place Im winter racing. He brought down unite a few horse-, with the intention of disposing of them, and already he has reduced li- -ring exactly half. Grand] i- the la-t hois,, he sold, the Armenia Stable purchasing him at a reported price of SS.OOO. More ha- had often to train from a couple of big owners, one of which was to go to Prance, and it i- po— ible that next summer will lad him associated with a big eastern owner.
