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AGAINST ROUGH RIDING Havana Stewards Will Not Tolerate It at Oriental Park. i ♦ 1 Backers of Favorites Find Cause for Rejoicing in Results of Fridays Racing. % i HAVANA. Culm. F brnary li. — The revocation of jockey Molntyre- license for a 1 liberate ease of foal riding when lie almost threw « lf.i i-intr 1 l over I he fence when MUMt Kurt Churchill, has formed tin- basis of oritiois i tin- part of turf writers who in not familiar with the way in which ■veil vioi.it ions of racing are treated i y the local -li wards. Tkc I .-it in American take* his sport seriously. Winn .1 imi-so fiiisiu-s first be expects to eaak his 1 ts and the onset uimloiis tactics of Domiaiek on Kamest for which that rider earned suspension for Ike remainder of the meeting and tke Melntyre i iae are tke only lastsaccs of deliberate feeld rid-tag since i ho meeting opeaed. Oa no course anywhere is :in t liinvc approaching niagh I Ming more iteverely condemned than bare and horsemen who li ive raced in Cuba favor the plan as it has been worked out. The apprentice jockey is on equal footing witii tke experienced rider. .lockeys are t.-light to kee| their mount- straight and whatever position they mav liave at tile head of the stretch n ust he Maintained to the end. Visitor* like II. K. Knapp and the late Schuyler I.. Iarsons. tioth stewards of The Xecfcej Club. during a visit here three winters age commented on the akseace of roach riding. The late riiil lawyer, wi.o at various times acted as a steward on the Metropolitan tracks, always contended that :i horse which was apparently best and finished in fiont was entitled to ! he money. There has been an influx id tourists daring tke past week. Jimmy Wakely. George Clayton and .1. I. Doaakay, the latter owner of tke nincli improved racer Cromwell. George W. Loft and Sammy Lewis are among the later arrivals. John Sanford is looked for next week ami Crank J. Noian is due here skartly. Mud running horses had a chance of skewing their merit last week for tin- first time in a couple of months. The track was heavy for a couple of ■lays, hut the change in the •■footing" evidently did not feaze the speculative public, for they succeeded in picking the right ones in a majority of the lice-.. ALL BUT ONE FAVORITE WIN. Well-hacked horses won the majority of tke races at Oriental Iark this afternoon. Kxeiting contests vere the order anil the piddle fared well when live favorites and a heavily hacked KCCend choice won. The In st finish of ihe afternoon came with the running of the find race in which Assumption. •: laway and May Maulsbv passed the judges in Ihe older named, heads apart. Assumption wa- ri.l-ilea by B. Pater. This boy has been riding like a demon for the last few days. Assumption was I. is si ;th winning mount in the las; four days. Tin- speculating portion of the public had cause for rejoicing in the so mid race when Bash, a well backed favorite, look the lead in the backstretch ami from there on led the remainder of the field to Ihe wire. Mis- l.a Rne M. set a fast pace to the stretch and then i|iiit. In the third John Jr. showed that he still re-latne some of his atd-tisse speed. Qneted al short odds, he amply justified all expectations. Count Boris, the second choice in the quotations, was pulled up at I iie start anil trailed in Ihe rear iliroughout . Jockey Woinor. who had the mount on Salvatol e in Ho fourth race today, was suspended five days by tke -towards for crossing iii font of Pretty Rahy at the si x I .-t-m li post . claims were deposited for Wyaatwssd, after he -..on Ihe sixth by Morton Loan. I*. J. Williams. C. K. M e. .;. M . Ridge, G. C. Mi/.ell. and II. V. Plant. In the drawing 6. M. Ridge secured the . ,ilt for s7.-,o. John J. MeCafi-rty has announced that he ivill dfspase of tin- iwo three year-ojgs Haran and II mil in at an. lion sale Sunday. Ill .. I forty has ben notified to report to Washington and take up the horse- of Dr. J. S. Tyiee. which have been wintered at the Reaatng coarse, lie will leave foe the north shortly. J. Price iias disposed of Dinae to S. Iolk. Col. Harrison, in ihe stable of lister LaaghUa, i ill wiih pneumonia. J. c. Itoggess secured Small Btone on private i.i in-. IT Plaudit. Ihe five. voir old ehe-tnul gelding by li.iudil Elsie I... owned by A. I..::. una. died al the track this no. ruing. a
