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POACHER WINS AT HAVANA ♦ — . Former Hildreth Racer Shows Return to His Old Form. i « i Defeats Currency in Spirited Finish in Main Attraction of Tuesdays Program. ♦ HAVANA. Cuba. February 3. S. Polk. wlMM horses have been running in partieiilai ly good form nf late, furnished tbe wlaaer of todays feature, a claiming hsndlrap. when J. Price** Poacher caase m behind anil boat Ike favorite. CMUIMf. in tin final strides. urn ucy was ridden liy Carmody and s r a fast pace throughout, hat when the real lest rami- la- Ureal and was beati n by a nock. Poacher was tin- extreme outsider ia the bettiac. the majority of tho sp; culatively inclined public feeling thai tin- fonnor HIMreth raeer was not keyed up for a bruising race. Bark was not the • ase. as the result shows. Once again the track was fast, and a largo iinitil Wa* in attendance. The public found it a teach propeaitJaa selecting the probable winners. aad the backer* of favorites laid little cause for rejoicing at the end of the afternoons sport, not a first choice winning. The Peter Pan voungsters Painter and Disturbance, making their initial appearance on the turf. were accorded eoaal support in the two-year-old dish that began the days proceedings. Both ran gtaaa and need more racing iducation before they will show their best form. Geaeral Agnuaeate won from start to finish. hading by a safe and w rati margin . i artnndy only roih one winner today. Punctual in the -cconl. the N. K. Heal filly defeating the odds-oa favorite Northern Belle in tbe last naarter. . rkville. with Cnrmndy in the -addl". was looked npon as a -are thine in the third race, but the old fellow, after loading to the final eighth, fell a victim to the superior closing speed of Ar-1 luir Middlotoi.. Stclcliff and .lohn W. Klein were ■elected to save the form backers from a complete rout, but both lied, the former being aaeilj beatea bj Hall aad Half and Date of Shelby in the fifth race, while lohn W Klein was led home by Corydn:i and P.ill llunley in the final dash of the afternoon. At the sale on Sunday of horses lielonging to Kay Speace Solid Rack was the only karat which change 1 ha ads, O. F. Van Winkle securing him for 9819. .1. "f iiiensotter added the four -;. i ar-old K till - wcrth getdiac Honest George to hi- staid, haTiag -cured him at private terms from G. Btal— ky. Ilivel-sion has Ih-cii placed on the s, | Hag |i-t. Del Fountain claimed Lariat from B. A. Wnit- ney for slot out of the seventh race list Sunday. II. B. Davis narehaaed May Craig from 0. K. Van Winkle at a private consideration.
