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DAY OF ORDINARY RACING AT HAVANA HAVANAHerron Herron Runs a Fast Race Speedy Whitney 2Year Old Sold for a Dig Price HAVANA Cuba March li Oriental Park racing today presented no unusual feature and on the whole was devoid of any great excitement lint it sufficed to attract the usual big attendance and pleased the spectators Perhaps the chief item was the easy style in which Maxtors threeyearold Ilerron defeated the Diaz pair Douglas Fairbanks and Ravensea in the fourth race and in fast time for horses of his age He was conceding weight but was the favorite and may prove a useful threeyearold later on when called on to contend with better opponents The Snob and Polar Cub were added to the schooling list listW W C Weant claimed the iood sprinter Pre ¬ mium out of the third race Sunday for fSO fSOThe The last auction sale of the local season vill be held in the paddock by Judge Lyles after the races Sal unlay when Encore Itorkaree Gras mere and other horses will be placed under the hammer hammerOn On Monday steward Polk shipped Poacher Enos Kilkenny and Deckhand to Howie The horses belonging to W A Crawford C A McDonald and C II Sprague were shipped at the same time to the Maryland track trackPete Pete Williams has bought from W 1 Press the English horse Iron Cross 11 by Galloping Simon Moham Gull by the Gull He will be shipped to the Williams farm near lUackwell Oklahoma to be bred to some of the Williams mares Iron Cross II won the Hamilton Derby and is credited with having run a fast mile over the Woodbine track trackAt At the close of the present meeting Williams will also send Hasty Cora Star Haby Lance and Lucinda to the Williams ranch to be bred bredLegal Legal came out of the race in the Grand Na ¬ tional Handicap in bad condition the horse having developed a severe case of colic and required the attention of Dr Ashe pretty much all night ami was still in a bad way Monday MondayJohn John 1 Millin today concluded arrangements for the purchase of tin tvtojeart hf PMlntfo from 1 W Pangle for 10000 Painter showed several sensational trials hero last week one for four and a half furlongs with the speedy Marse John doing it in i Millin will ship Painter with the re ¬ mainder of the stable to Maryland at the con ¬ clusion of the meeting meetingJockey Jockey Koppelman who is under suspension for the remainder of the meeting has departed for Ti ¬ juana
