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CLOSE FINISHES THE RULE Majority of Friday Races at Ha ¬ vana Won Under Hard Drives Probable Field for Sundays Fea ¬ ture Jockey Penman to Leave for His Home HAVANA Cuba March 18 Todays program at Oriental Park while made up of ordinary fields furnished keen contests and in the majority of the races the winners scored under hard driven some of them just managing to get up in the final strides to win by the smallest of margins This was particularly true in the third and fourth races Tosca and Mayrose the respective winners tri ¬ umphing right at the end Both were outsiders in the calculations of the public Tosca beat Vporiu after a terrific stretch drive the result of which was in doubt until the judges hung up the winning number Mayroses victory was achieved almost in the same manner mannerThe The result of the first race might have been different had not Dixie Flyer beenV pulled up just as the barrier was sprung Even with this dis ¬ advantage she was gaining on the leader San Diego and just failed to overtake him by a half length San Diego led throughout but tired near the end endBen Ben Butler showed the way from barrier rise to the finish of the second race and was in no danger of defeat defeatThe The final races of the afternoon fell to Second Cousin and American Eagle the former meeting rto ttrdit opposition fn tir fiftn race while American Eagle was forced to the limit to beat Big Idea the last mentioned closing a big gap with a great display victoryS of speed that almost gained him victory S 1 Kennedy has been notified by K H Schwartz that the contemplated meeting at Wheel ¬ ing West Virginia will surely open on April IS and continue until April 2S There will be no purses of less than S100 and a dully handicap of j700 will also be run Six races every day are to be carded cardedThe The following is a list of the prospective starters in the Cuba Produce Stakes to he run Sunday and the weights they will carry Morro Castle 110 Don Pepe 116 Don Manuel I 113 Cuba Encanto 113 Datusa 107 Caslick 113 Fasenda 110 Vir ¬ ginia Cheek 110 and Artemisa 107 This 10000 event is to be supplemented by a handicap with a purse of 1200 lockey lj Penman who is under suspension for the remainder of the meeting will leave for his home in Niagara Falls X Y for a brief visit after which he will rei ort to trainer Rowe of the Whitney stable at Brookdale Farm X 1 Penman stands second on the list of winning riders here having piloted fiftytwo winners during the winter and is easily the best youngster developed here this year As a rider he is superior to many of the older jockeys jockeysJockey Jockey Francis was suspended for five days for rough riding on Jake Feld in the sixth race
