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HAVANA TRACK IMPROVED i r4 Red Carries Colors of Veteran Turfman T. Cheek to Victory. . Jockey McCoy Rides Two Winners Good Field for the . Antilles Stakes. HAVANA, Cuba, December 10. Well-backed horses won the majority of the races at Oriental Park tins afternoon. The improved track conditions brought an improvement in the sport. Keen contests were the order, the winners scoring by small margins. The Armonia stable furnished the winner of. the opening dash in Vic Munoz, which made all the pace and beat Aunt Deda by a length and a half. Red, running under the colors of T. Cheek, the oldest horseman on the turf, took down the ptirse in the second, in which Grey Rump, the favorite, finished third after getting away slowly. The finish in the third race was a thriller. Jack Hill earned the decision nfter a gruelling stretch drive with View and Marty Lou, the latter leading to the last eighth. ,. Driffield, Sinn Feiner and Beaucaire fought it out all through the homestretch in the fourth and finished in the order named, while the favorite. Jack Healey, was outpaced throughout. McCoy rode the winner and he came hack in the following race and brought J. O: Keeiies Lui-Meme a victor from Doublet II. after a gruelling contest -from sjtart-to, !flnlslr . ... " B. Kennedys "energetic ride on Buck Naii was in a great measure responsible for Buck Nails fYlctpryhl the final race of the afternoon. He raced LeBalafre into defeat after rounding the far turn and was drawing clear near the end. A good field of sprinters will meet in the Antilles Stakes, which is the big feature of next Sundays racing. Among the sure starters will be Different Eyes, which beat a good band yesterday and showed that he was in first-class form; Right Angle, Prince of Como, Osgood, Sirocco and Furbelow. Last years renewal of the Antilles Stakes was won by Money, carrying 104 pounds and equaling tlte track record of 1:11 for three-quarters of a mile. Eddie Barnes was taken ill this morning and had to cancel his engagement to ride McLelland in the fiftli race today. Jockey F. Wilson was unable to ride La Kross in the sixth race owing to illness of his wife. Crump was given the mount. B. Brewster, acting for J. L. Keene, disposed of the two-year-old Blue Flame to L. Crist.
