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STAKES TO BILLY BARTON 4 . 3 Scores Easy Victory in Cuba Two-Year-Olcl Mile Championship. Bread Man Takes Secondary Feature Dates for Remaining Stake Events. i HAVANA. Culm. December 20. -P.illy I.:irtun. racing under the colors of Mose Goldblnit and making his first appearance iit this, meeting, accounted for tin- Culm Two-Year-Old Mile Championship Stakes at Oriental Park this afternoon. Hilly Harton was ridden liy Kennedy, eamc fnnn behind entering the homestretch ami drew away into a Ions lead in the last eighth to win under restraint. Hilly Kartell ran the mile in 1 ::S!I and had plenty of speed in reserve at the finish. Willow Tree ran second under a rousing finish in which McCoy showed to particularly good advantage. Hilly Harton looks like a prospective winner of the rich Cuban Derby and ran like a good coll today. He simply smothered his opponent for speed when Kennedy let him down. The race was worth ,790 to the winner. Hread Man showed another good performance today when he galloped home an easy winner in the "Alio Salienle" Handicap. This was a dash of one :uid no-sixteenth miles for a purse of SI. .MO. Garner kept Hread Man under restraint and waited until entering the homestretch before making a move. When called on. Hread Man dashed into an easy lead and won hy a safe margin. The dates for the running of the remaining stakes to he decided at Oriental Iark have been announced us follows: New Year Handicap of 83.0110. January 1. Mono Castle Handicap of ,500. January 2. Carribean Claiming Stakes of .500.. January !. American Club Handicap of S3. 000. January 10. Murianao Handicap of ,000, January 23. President Menoeal Handicap of ,000. January 30. Havana Klectric Light and Tower Claiming Handicap of ,500. February 0. Grand National Handicap of 0,000. February 13. Cuba America Handicap of ,. 501. February 20. Cuba Juvenile Stakes of ,001. February 22. Independence Handicap of ,000. February 21. Hotary Handicap of .-000. February 27. Inion Club Handicap of ,000. March 0. Grand Prize Cuba Handicap of 5,000. March 13. Cuba Produce Stakes of 0,000. March 20. Cuban Derby of 5,000. .March 27. Director James at. the dds-on of 12 lo 1 furnished a big surprise by taking tlie second race. He was ridden by Hert Kennedy and under the hitters energetic handling led all the way. easily holding safe Our Nephew, the pronounced choice. Favorites won the following two races. Zindo settling in the third and Chefa in the fourth. The hitters victory was achieved in the last strides of a fast finish under F. Hunts good ride. This was Hunts second success of the afternoon. Zindo Wiis sore going to the post and his chances were none too good in the early stages, lint he finished with rare courage and fine speed, drawing away in the final eighth. W. C. Westmoreland provided the winner of the opening dash in the Astronomer filly Gratiau. She was kept close to the pacemaker let Km until the last iiarter. when she easily took command ami had a lengths advantage at the end. Hoseate was second, finishing fast, but never menacing the winner. Jet Fm quit when challenged after setting all the pace.
