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END AT HAVANA IN SIGHT — -♦ — Two Big Stake Races of the Meet- i ing Near Decision. ! ♦ I Crayssion and Blue Wrack in Special Preparation for Both ; — Horses for Canada. — « HAVANA. Cuba. Mutch Si.— The long winter meeting if t lie Cuba American Jockey ami Auln Club has entered mi its last Up; ii luis three aetna !■ surer to run and will be brought to ;i close on Sunday. March lS. nil which day Hie Ittlfliril I mining of the Cuban ! rby will be staged. On S.indny next tlie Ornnd National Handicap will be ill i Had. These are the two in-inciiial errata of the winter meeting at Oriental Iark. The distance of both races [« at a mile and an eighth and each has S10.HM added, which makes them the richest stakes to be run at any winter meeting. All of tin- besi bataea here are eligible to both of these races and at the present writing it seems that Henor A. II. Diaz will play an important part in both races. Trainer W. Mi Daniel is giving the three -year olds Crayssian and Blue Wrack a special preparation for these races, and if all goes well both of them will sport colors in both the Derby ami Croud National. The Arucnia Stable purchased Black Prince a few days hack DO as to give them a second String to their bow in the Derby. Mess Kit. the Tracery colt, is also in the Derby. This colt has been tin proving right atari* ami it appears as though he riiiiftsi . . i. lata mori t .. ii a anrfni aart. W. A. i alter, who irain- for Messrs. Tolon ft Fernandez, lias arranged to bring both Mesa Kit and lflack Prince io Kentucky, where they will be raced at t the eaily meetings. Al the endu-ion of the l.aloiiia i ting in .luly the pair will be -hipped I back to uha. bin Carter, accompanied hy one of [ his employer-, will go to Saratoga and pick up a i pie of hor-o- lor ne] winter. River-ido. Rlaze- va.. Walnut Mall. Ciuinly and Lackawanna will remain in Cuba ditriiiy the summer. They will 1 l.e turned out at the Armenia farm back of Maria -lino. Blazciway will be bred to several mares, among : tlieni I.ilv ornie. Bright Sands. inlet, l.ady .1; Cray, Moonstone and Ailelia. the later a half-sister I- to the 5,000 lilly Kathleen, which was purchased 1 by Mrs. |. .. McLean in Kentucky a couple of f v . a i - ago. P. .1. Williams has booked the two thr. e year old mares I.ance. by Martinet La , Gloria, and l.ucimla. by Martinet Lady Irma. to Itlaaeaway. William- lonatdcrn Blasrawuy the aaoat i perfect Ij gailed hor-e on the turf. beside* being on,. ■ d" the hainl- -t batata in training. lie rlaiaaa 1 that was Blaz.away -mind be could beat any horse here at any distance up to a mile and a half. Se era! other i.or-emcn will breed to Itlazeaway. an g Mum W. Dondas. who has booked Marty Lea; providing, of cour-e. -he comes in before 1 lie meet In- hire end-. If not -he will be shipped back to Kentucky and bred. OWNERS GETTING READY TO SHIP. Horsemen here are already making their plans s for the coming summer and quite a few of the ■ -mailer -table- will -hip from here to Montreal. A V few have elected to go to Tijuana, while tl thers s will be split Up between Maryland and Kentucky. The first shipment that left included the big stable I that II. K. Davis gathered here thi- winter. Tiny f treat to New Orleans by boat and from there to j Tijuana. There were thirty horses in the baml. and 1 among them were some useful platers. The Mon-treal contingent will be made up of the strings s owned bv It. Mock. Prank Deiharria, F. Bougsman, N. K. Moodv. lete Stire. .1. C. Mayes. Col. .1 de Ks-tramp.-. II. 1.. Hiit.hin-on. W. Cnrgan. C. I.. Mae-ke. A C. Nieliai:-. .1. Coru.jo. C. F Brant and C. II. RoWo. C. K. More will semi his string from here to o Jamaica net week and he will take along at the e aame time A. kllegroa Scotch Verdict. Moore will 1 real Cromwell for a few weeks, and it i- for this - reason that he is u t going to Maryland. apt. W I. ire— made several eniries to the I- stake- to lie run at the Kentucky tracks, which !i probably means that he will race at those Meeting* s until the middle of Hi.- summer and then ship , direct from l.alonia to Windsor. apt. Ire-s. to-gei her with aeveral other Canadian-, is interested il in the Devonshire track, near Windsor. w. V. Throve*. J. T. Iretaad, I -I William-. A 11. Diaz, the Armenia Stable and B. 11. Maxtor r mad itries to the Kentucky slakes. Sen. r Diaz z pill the two three year-olds Bine Wrack and Clays -ian in the Kentucky Derby ami the Aim. mi. i Stable ,. nominated the Tracery colt Mess Kit in the name e ewnt E. 11 Baxter put the Horroa coll Herroa i, in tMith the Kentu. hj and l.atonia Derby. Tin- old campaigner Cardan RaaoeU appeara to „ have rounded to the top of his form again ami has s 1 i a frequent winner of late. On Batardaj hi-t t he came from behind and won a mile race, miming x the distance in 1:40. Cordon RaaneU, which t-ten s years old. ha- won at all distances from live eighth* to a mile ami a quarter and nio-t of the e time ha- been racing for in- present trainer, 11. . W. Plant. lie was king of tin- half mile:- in Can-ad l for a long time and if In- retains hi- present form will be hard to beat an the smaller track- in the Dominion again Beat summer. YOUNG CUBAN HORSES ARRIVING. Several foals are expected to arrive at the Diaa 7 farm :n tin next few week- The mare- which won-bud ,! . to the Mushroom stallion Don Thrash la-t year, and which ari expected to foal are l.ad. Matchmaker, Kneed] Lady, Oriental Cold, mud il Bank and Paulson. All of these marc-, together J With Snflragi-t and Comfort, will be bred to the Tracery stallioa Orestes, arbk-h ha- been retired ■ to the stud. At the loiulu-ion of the meeting W. C. Weanl t will ship what horses he does not dispose of in [ the meantime back to Kentucky, where they will be tinned out for the summer. Mi- plans arc to go east with hi- apprentice i biaretta He will race aid a few bones on the New York tracks, but just t what ones he will ship there lie has not as yet diluted - ou.
