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CUBAN RACING PROSPECTUS E c One Shipment on Way to Havana Others to Follow Shortly. a Ji o Oriental Park More Beautiful I of V Than Ever New Improve- ments Completed. I OGF s BY T. K. LYNCH. 1 BALTIMORE. Md., October 19. With the fall s meetings in the different parts of the country com- a iiiR to a close, horsemen are looking forward to a t campaign at one of the winter racing tracks and arrangements are being made, or have been made, t a for shipment south. The Cuba-American Jockey. and Auto Club is the first of the associations to 1 come out with an announcement of their plans, i Which call for a glittering array of stakes and i purses to which over 00,000 will be given in added money. f a The first special to pull out for one of the wiuter tracks left Windsor at the conclusion of the recent i Kenilworth meeting, bound for Oriental Park, Havana, Cuba. There were about fifty horses in i the shipment and the consignment was made up of the following horses: E. L. Fitzgeralds Sirocco, Peasant, Indian Chant and Saddler; Dee Ilammonds -Smart Money, Sunningdale, Clark M., Hush, Scin- i tillate; H. W. Plants Senator James, Vision. Plan- ; tarede, Buncrana; W. E. Wilkins Nonsense and Biscuit; L. Browns George C. Jr., Sedan and Mar- : jorle Mignon; G. Warwicks Timothy J. Ilogan and ! Ford; Mose Williams Far East, Mackenzie, Sylvano and. .Ilonna Grafton; - V,ilU-Xoul!s. J5rlneesJMyrila Loitislerumi ."""Mather; Oiggres El-CCrCnjT? HP thatn and Balph S.; J. Pillans Onwa and Cham- i bout; J. HopVs Duke Rnff and Little Nearer; A. C. Niehaus Koseate, J. Walker and Driffield; A. E. Witts Langhorne and Gallopin; T. Hodges Aunt Deda Double Eye. Blazonry, Seven Seas, Jacobean, J. Alfred Clark, Little Dear, Dragoon and Coombs. The next special will leave from the Empire Oity course and shipments will then follow from Maryland and Kentucky- The club lias been extremely liberal with the horsemen and many thousands of dollars have been expended during the summer months in improvements to the plant, looking to the comfort of the horsemen. These improvements are about completed and include, besides several new stables, a handsome new paddock, built at a cost of 0,000; the addition of two stories to the clubhouse, which includes some thirty spacious rooms, with bath attached to each, and a roof garden. A tliree-inch pipe has been placed the entire circuit of the track attached to the inside rail, which will be used to water the track. The water for this purpose will be taken from the well in the infield, which appears to have an unlimited capacity. The roads about the stables have also been regraded and every stable on the grounds lias been gone over. New concrete stairways have been built in place Of the wooden ones leading up to the grandstand. The promenade in the tear of the loxes has been wjdened -four and one-half feet and extended all around the extreme rear of the stand, which" affords a "view not only of the mutuel machines but the bookmakers as well. The mutuol. plant has also been enlarged ami the battery of machines in the larger and smaller grandstands r.ow numbers thirty-seven. There arc forty cashiers in the mutuel department and eighteen or twenty bookmakers will be in line in the betting ring. A number of workmen under the supervision of an expert landscape gardener were busy all summer laying out walks and flower beds about the grounds and that part in the immediate rear of the grandstand has been beautified. The walks in front of the grandstand have been put down in red concrete and present a most picturesque appearance. It was formerly gray granite and was quite glaring to the eye. NEW PADDOCK HANDSOME STRUCTURE. The new paddock is a handsome and commodious structure, built on modern lines, witli the stalls in the center and a wide promenade all around it. A -new secretarys office, jockeys building, an up-to-date model hospital and a new printing establishment adjoins this new paddock, which is located just above the clubhouse. The old paddock will be Used as a garage by guests of the club. Albert Wilson, formerly assistant manager of the St. Francis Hotel in Sah Francisco and the Pennsylvania in New York, will be in charge of the restaurant and clubhouse next winter, having succeeded the late Edward Terp. The restaurant at Oriental Park has become famous in Havana as the best place to obtain food cooked in American style. J. Mackey, the chef, who presides over the kitchen which is used by the. stable help, has already left for Havana and will open up his place of business at Oriental Park on October 20. The new hotel at Almandares, which was under course of construction last winter, was completed during the summer and will be opened November 1. This place is under the management of Mr. H. Alberts, who lias been managing the Homestead Inn in Virginia. The Almandares Hotel contains 150 rooms with baths. There is also a new up-to-date houseboat containing twenty-seven rooms and baths which is operated by the hotel management and which is located at the Playa. The new bridge crossing the Almandares River in completed and will be opened just as" soon as the approach from the Tennis Club to the bridge is, which will be in a week or two. The. boulevard from the Almandares side of the bridge to the Playa Is already in use and is one of the handsomest drives n Cuba. The Avendia Columbia has also been repaired and is in excellent condition. All of the Spanish papers in Havana have been printing the form charts for several years past and next winter the Havana Post, the American paper Will also print the full chart. The Post is now v miller the management of the well-known metropolitan joumaist Mason Peters, who has gathered about him a most efficient staff of writers that he brought down from New York. Victor Munoz, the sporting authority of the El Mundo, contemplates starting a sporting weekly next winter which will pay especial attention tv racing and Frank J. Brucn, the general manager of the Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club, spent several days at Kenilworth Park arranging for the shipment of horses which left Windsor direct for Havana. His tour includes besides Kenilworth Park the Kentucky, New York and Maryland tracks. With the exception of a steward to succeed Christopher J. Fitz Gerald and judge William Shelley, the staff at Oriental Park will be practically the same as last year. Geneial manager Bruen has succeeded in obtaining a worthy successor to Mr. Fitz Gerald in John Hach-meister, an efficient official who has had a world of experience and who ranks as one of the best in the business. One of Mr. Uaehmeisters strong recommendations is his popularity, not only with tiie horsemen but Rice goers as well. Mr. Cornchl- ! sen, who succeeds Mr. Shelley in the judges stand, is no stranger to Cuban race goers, as he was in the stand there a few years back. Mr. Oornehlsen is also presiding judge on all of The Jockey Club tracks in the East. James Milton will again do the starting and act as assistant manager. Mr. Miltons work in the starters stand on the Caua- j j diau and Maryland tracks during the current year ! came in for considerable praise. He is looking after the shipment of the consignment which will leave Maryland some time after theclose of the Laurel meeting. Frank McGinty will be stationed at Key West to assist horsemen and race goers making the tri to Cuba, to obtain their piiEsnorts.
