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ORDINARY RACING AT ORIENTAL PARK HAVANA. Cuba, .lanuary 20. — Belle of Elizabeth-town showed a good performance when ahe beat a good band of good sprinters in the La LiicIih i : Handicap. ■ daah "f five and a half furlongs, for a | I purse of SI. HID. She was rid.h n by Holtler. was away slowly and outrun to the stretch turn, where, moving up stoutly in the final drive, she shook off her opponents and beat Mayor House by three parts of a length. Assumption, which finished , third, was a aether length away, with Oul the Way abs.. lately last. The latter set a fast early pace, but ipiit as a*aal. I.cnora I., paying 8184X88 for 83, furnished a surprise in the fourth when she heat Bianca by a length. A high wind blew down the homestretch. The track was firm and fast. Iavan Boy made it two straight when he came : from behind in the stretch run in the sec I race , i and got up in the final stride to beat out Slippery Silver by ,i nose. The finish was so close that it look the Official placing to decide the winner. ! Judge William Oeoghan and judge William Buck-waiter, prominent jurists from Cincinnati, arrived i lod.iy I r a i-it of aboiu a fortnight. Bath have many friend* among the racing officials and horse men here. B.iII.miio niey anil .lack Hill have been added to the p list af horses that judge I.yl.s will sell at auction ii in the paddock at the close of next Stir. days racing.
