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I , I THRAVES RACING PLANS i e i Kentucky Owned Stable to Be Made a First-Class One. " ♦ : i Trainer Spence to Begin Early — News and Gossip from Oriental Park. ■ i ■ HAVANA. Cuba. January St— If the plans of w. v. Thrives, wealthy Kentucky oil operator and leifmuu. and Khy Bpeacc, his trainer, are carried ■in successfully, the ThraVes raeiag rrlahllshanal ot the rowing season will lie one of the mo-t proton -tuns to be campaign..! on the Kentacky track-. The present stable i- a asvfal one. Mr. li rave- i- anxious to grow as an owner, and he intends to make further purchases of good .lass horses. Bpenee has been given a free hand, and he iatenda to gather horses that will make the I brave- colors aotabtr on the Kentucky track-. in order to devote all of hi- time in the stable R peace has arranged to sell the eighteen horse- he has racing here in his own interests and return lo Louisville to rake charge of the Thrave, bptMa there. The Thravcs horse- that Bpenee has been • : nipaigiiing in Havana this winter, including Marse Htnry. Mi:.. Daaie, Hocair and War spirit, will In sent luck to rejoin the -table in Kentucky about February IS. Bpenee now has three H»ckeys under • oiitraci T. Murray I.. Woods and W. M ingan. These go to Kentucky with him. Recently Bpenee offered 5.000 for the contract on jockey .1. Car n.od.v. tiie riding find of ihe season here. It wa-not accepted. Al Louisville Spence will take up Minto II. . Ole-aster, Bafferty, Hodge and Tbramaa, the latter never having raced, which have been turned out at the Thrav.s farm near Lexiagtoa. Seven promising two-year-olds belonging to Mr. TI. raves have been at Churchill Downs all winter i i charge of W. Covington. All of them did well and are well advanced in iraining. The -tar of the band is the colt by .Ttimus Tsarina, for which Mr. 11 raves paid £24,000 at the Saratoga -ale- last .u-gu-t. iii. re i- a eatt by Great Britain Lady liooaet, which was bred by W. V. Walsh, who sold him n col. w. p.. Applegate ami Bpenee, win, sold the colt to Mr. Thrave-. Another pcospctt is a coir by I eli — I.gistella. which cost Mr. Thraves S.l.KHI at Saratoga. A colt by Crit— Maud P. I... bought from Cal Mil im. by whom be was broken and tried out and most highly rooimimonde.l. is also regarded highly, and there is alsa a oilt by Short Oram Kmpty, bre 1 hy Kmil Hera. Ihe remaining yonag-ten are a filly by Ivan the Terrible- Superl. and a coll by Great Britain Idle pay. CTJ3AN KENTUCKY DERBY ENTRIES. There are •piile a number of throe-year-. ihls here that will be mimed to ti„. Kentucky Derby. Tee .Jamaica Stables Port Churchill will ix- among tie- nominees from the Cuban track. Fori Churchill l« one ,,f the s, dies! celts evi r BCCB at tin- Havana hack, but there is doubt about him being able to go ihe Perky distance. .1. W. Pangle. win. usually confines his -icing activities to the Maryland and oilier eastern track-. will have a representative in this years Kentucky Derby. His candidate for the ran- is Beeeland, a rangy gelding by t*ylgad— Cariaya, which in- is pointing for the SlO.lllMI Cuban Derby, to If run March SB, and which will later on be lent after the Kentucky race. This English gelding was formerly owned by P. T. Wilson, who sold him to Pangle at Betaeat Park last September. Tile -luces- attained by the apprentice rider. .1. arinidy. has brought many offers for his contract, but they all have been rejected by G. P. Parke, who brought the lad here and who holds hi- contract. The most recent offer ,,f 5,060 was refu-e.1 by Ptirke. Several promising rider- have been shown here who bid fair to develop into good apprentices. Car-iiody. K. Fator. Chiavetla and An haiuhault mme inli. favor early in the meeting, but mare recently W Brown, Tryon, W. Uaagaa and B. Panic- have a;lractcd attention. All four of these boys have shown ability. Barnes, considering hi- limited o| p.u tunie-. seems the best. lie lode two good races oa Hdea AtUin and old Kylrrs, his finish on the latter, when he beat Carmody out by a nam after a long, desperate drive, b.ing meritorious. TRYON LOOKS PROMISING. Tryon is a lad that 11. .1. Kennedy secured from Preston Pure!, last fall. He won recently Willi Daisy I. and Alvord. He i- an alert lad al lb,- barrier and leaves the post usually with tin-leaders. Horsemen who have used thi- boy claim that he ha- goixl hand- and call get a horse on his stride quickly. Brown is a coo! youngster with good sense in races. He -hows well in long-distance riding and is a strong finisher. P.rown has bad some hard I i i -. - to ride here. Zodiac i- one of them. He i- a horse of moods, and if he is bumped or inter -f. red wiih w ill aot do hi- beat. M.ingan is one of the la. is that Kay Sp.nce brought to Cuba. He i- no youngster, being SOUM- ti ng over tweaty years ol age. lie rides well far a beginner, his riding i f Baaeata a few- days back, when he came from behind with the latter and heal Rienaaa out by a naee in tin- final strides, was a good piece of riding. D. Pa.vinoti. I. who was man ied a few weeks hack to Mis- Timmons, dnaghter of the owner of the famous llollinger g..|.| mine in Canada, is here accompanied by his bride. M:. Pavilion. 1. who is the proprietor of one of the big hotels ill Montreal, maintains a breediaki farm a few miles back of the Plue Ponnels course, where the Klying Ko stallioa Vlslamoal stands ai Ihe bead of his stud. On of the produce of the farm. Sal Volatile, has won a couple of races here this winter Mr. Kay t,K ml is also a breeder of fancy cattle, and is f. moils in ana. la as il w nor of ihe finest Hol- - tela bull in the Dominion . A. party of New Vi rkers spent a couple of days hi re last week. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. mi piien Gallagher and .lohn Gallagher of White- Mi ne. Long Island. Mr. tlallagher, who is known as the "Sand King" about New York, came south in his j a teh.
