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AVION AND JOCKEY BOYLE i J Figure. in Outstanding Feature of Yesterdays Havana Racing. i Jockey B. Kennedy Rides Two Winners Entries to Stakes Average Fifty to Each. HAVANA, Cuba, December 9. The outstanding feature at Oriental Park this afternoon was the vigorous finish by Jockey Boyle in the fifth race, when he landed Avion a winner by a half length in front of War Loan. The race furnished the best contest of the afternoon. Of the six starters four were fighting it out all through the homestretch. Pitted apainst Boyle were B. Kennedy, J. Butwell and R. McDermott, all crack riders, and although they rode like demons the honors went to Boyle. The weather was summerlike today and a few more such days will have the track in first-class condition. The attendance was good and speculation was the heaviest of any week:day since the meeting began. Williams Bros. Natural won the opener. He was saved during the early running and when the pacemaker,. Sleepy Dear, tired in the last eighth, easily moved to the front and had a safe margin at the finish. Kennedy rode the winner and also .brought home Hunter Piatt first in the following race. The latters winning margin was small and victory did not come until the last few strides. The veteran Ben Brush mare Miss Brush galloped . home, jinr-easxwjnner Inthe. thirxL.race.vvShe?TCHWhtr f and- ractr-Sito "defeat Lady Hester" on the far turn and from there on had easy sailing. S. T. Baxters Gold Stone led all the way in the fourth and was not menaced until the last eighth, where he tired and was forced to do his best to outlast the fast closing Clip. The latters performance was a good one and he would have won in a .few more strides. The French-bred Black- Thong scored the easiest victory of the. day in. the last race,, winning by eight lengths with- Ramean second, a head to the good of Donna Grafton. T. Grunewald, owner and manager of the Grune-wald, one of New Orleans largest hotels, accompanied by his wife, is paying a short visit to Havana. They were among todays visitors to Oriental Park. Word was received yesterday that the mares Sweet Alyssium and Hasty Cora, which raced in Cuba last year, are now in foal to Trap Rock and have been sold by W. Harris to Capt. P. M. Walker and transferred to the latters breeding farm in Virginia. L. O. Lamay arrived with the six-yenr-old gelding Merry Feast, which is in training for J. Cos-tello. R. Lancaster, the latest addition to the jockey colony, recently arrived from Maryland. Frank Herold, whose horses arrived Monday, reached Havana this morning. Bert Kennedy, the riding sensation on Kentucky tracks during the past season, rode his first winner of the meeting in the opening dash. This good jockey, who will ride for Mose Goldblatt, has not had many mounts since the opening, but from now on will be seen in the saddle frequently. A total of 976 entries have been made to the twenty-one stakes offered, during the present Cuban racing at Oriental Park. This will average fifty .nominations for each event. The following are the stakes and number of entries: Grand Prize of Cuba Handicap, 58; Grand National Handicap, 57; President Menocal Handicap, 51; Independence Handicap, 54; Cuba Mile Three-Year-Old Championship, 22; Cuba Mile Two-Year-Old Championship, 36; Thanksgiving Inaugural Handicap, 63; Christmas Handicap, 53; New Years Handicap, 42; American Club Handicap, 49; Union Club Handicap, 71; Havana Electric Light and Power Handicap, 66; Caribbean Stakes, 69; Rotary Handicap, 57; Morro Castle Handicap, 56; Marianao Handicap, 50; Antilles Stakes, 55; Cuban Derby, 48; Cuba Produce -Stakes, 9. Many new arrivals are looked for from the States next week. Applications have poured in for hotel reservations and quite a few of these have come from New Orleans.
