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! I i i ! j j ! I 1 ; ! i ; . ! . S J tol Ma B i i 1 ! I i I ■I I I the e| ■ J • I hist sj g I | g i i i in in | i . y i j e j I i. o is at it j | ,. j j i ,t ; j ,1 ti- ! C. v 1 hi „. I ■ l i j j , j ; .;. • I | j * of I j it- j ■-1 his lv I j ie! wral s ig I I 1 il- •n ■el New, w the ie aa u bj "a; er j st I sad ul ; rn hi hi " an " has :,~ " to "- i " I 11 lr the " IE /TALKED ABOUT IN HAVANA !l Armonia Stables Great Success Due to I an Able Trainer. tltV T. K. LYNCH. HAVANA Cuba. February 7. due of the out j standing features of the present Oriental Park ! i nieeiing is the success that has been achieved by : i the Armonia Stable of Antillo Fernandez, otic of the ■ | best known sportsmen in Cuba. Willi only a | madcrately good stable this Cuban establishment i hails the list of winning owners at tin- meeting and has earned dining its first fifty -six days the ; goodlj simi of |**g |«Q Rbueaway. with a record of IiM con eiutive victoiies. and Riverside, with eight straight wins to ids credit, hare eentribnted largely to this Maoaat. Much of tin- credit for the stables 1 siKcess is due to il trainer. W. A. Cartel, regarded as one of the best conditioners of hnlses mi the! j island. Carter began lift the turf by riding - | horses in ls !7. anil when he g-.t too heavy a couple of years later became identified with the sport aa a trainer. Much of his idmaiioii a- sm-h was obtained under H. •. BedweU, for whom he worked assabl of years, including several racing s.-nsons in Cuba. Later on after engaged in the l iisini...s " on his own scconnt and in one year won twenty-j5. five races in Canada and Cuba. The last year he raced his own horses in Cuba Mr. Carter won six- teen races, among his horses that year being Nathan 1 U.. Ask Ma. Athena, Early Sight. Sir Dyke and Lilly Orate. In the tall at l!Hs he joined the j Armenia stable and has made that establishment the leading one in Cuba. The stable has a record of having won sixty races in sne year. It did not engage in any racing last summer, but this year r tin- stables colors win be seen in Kentucky at the j I spring meetings. At the conclusion of the Cuban 1 I racing Carter will take Aiken. General J. M. lo- moz and Walnut Hall to Lexington and will race all through the Kentucky spring circuit. Aiken 1 and Ceneral J. If. Cesses have been entered in the j Kentucky Derby and other stakes for three-year- I olds in the Bine Orass state. j Luring the first fifty seven days of the pre sent I meeting ill Cuba the Cuba-American Jockey dull ii has distributed in stakes and purses the sum of f j 1289.800, which is an Increase of ,900 over a i similar period last year. The total distribution i j will show a milch greater increase after the more e ■ valuable stakes are decided. These comprise the t Cuban Derby ami Grand Prize of Cuba Handicap, both of 5,000 added, and the Grand National Han- ■ dicap and Cuba Produce Stakes, both with 0,000 j added. The Grand National will have its renewal Sunday. Pe binary T:i. while the other rich events will Bat be decided until in the closing weeks of the meeting. Loyalist, the five year-old The Manager Ancient , gelding, for which l!il] Itomias paid 28 at an am- i Hon sale la the Lacuna paddock last fall, has • fallen lame again, just when he was beginning to ol win for his owner. Tie.- gelding was bnd and raced d by Major T. C. McDowell until last summer, when, ii he fell lame and his owner decided to gel rid d : of him. Dondas boaghl the gelding and shipped d i him to aba and. after patching him up. put him n in training again. Since tliea he hat started ill n four races and has been a victor in two. secend in ■ one and unplaced in the other. .lust when it ip- ■ geared that Loyalist was about to win many more r races for his rentaresome owner his it.g filled d up and he had 1o be thrown -lit f training. The influx of American louiisis to Cuba this s winter reached its ■pea last week, when none e visitors than ever from the North visited Oriental ii Park. Among tin- number were many prominent I men who were making their first visit to tie e I ! inland. The Dumber Included John J. Mahon, pou :- itient public man of I.alt iinon. and B. II. 1adgett. r. also from the same city, who enjoyed their risil t Immensely and announced their intention of n - . turning m-xt winter. Others included George K. ,. Morris and W. K. Qnilbot of Amsterdam, both h I i intimate friends of John Sanford. and W. II. Uarphy of Troy, N. V.. son of former senator it i I Murphy. Among the prominent people who are due to ,. arrive shortly for an extended visit are Col. W. , 1,. flslrtl man of Louisville. Ky.; George M. Hen drip of Windsor. Canada; Judge Charles F. Price of Louisville, Kv and W. F. Btevall of Maples. t, i Fla. These gentlemen are now sojourning at it Naples. Fla.. and when they reach here they will li be tile guests of judge .b-hn llnclmicis te r. Who formerly made his winter home at Naples. Follow-lag are the dates for the remaining stakes of tiles meeting : Fcbruai; U. Grand Naiietiai Handicap, 0,000 M, added. I 1-s miles. February 1n. Cuba American Handicap. M0 li, added. :L4 mile. Pehraarj 22, Cuba Juvenile Stakes. .S-J.iMNi added. I ; 1 -Z mile. Februaiy 24. Independence Handicap. ,080 It* added. 1 1-s miles. February 27, Botary Club Handiea]i. *3. MM added. I. 5 l-"_* furlongs. March ii. Lnioii Club Handicap. ,000 added. • 1 1-lf. miles. March IS, Grand Print of Cuba Handicap, si" 001 added, I I s miles. March 20, Caba Produce stakes. 0,800 adtled. 1 -J mile. March L7 uban Derby. Si.",. null added. 1 1-S _s miles.
