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CUBAS AMBITIOUS PROGRAM f Twenty-two Stake Races Will Feature Winter Meeting, i Beautiful Marianao Will Have One Hundred Days of Sport Under Improved Conditions. SARATOGA. N. Y., August 20. An ambitious stake program resulted from the conference held here yesterday by general manager Fran"k J. Ilruen and president Thomas Mouohnn of the Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club, in which the considerable sum of 10,000 iu added money is to be distributed to winners of tlie twenty-two fixtures scheduled for decision during the one hundred or more days racing to be held at Oriental Park, beginning Thanksgiving Day, November "1. The stake list is a diversified one, with the Grand Prize of Cuba and the Cuban Derby, both at a mile and an eighth distance, featuring, as 5,000 is added to each event. Tlie Graiid National Handicap at a mile and an eighth witl its 0,000 added is another coveted stake. The Cuban Produce Double Event is a new fixture or. rather, a double fixture, as 0,000 is added to each of the races. The entries to all stakes close November 2. 1121. General, manager Frank Hrucii spoke enthusiastically of the prospects for next winters racing in Cuba and expressed belief that record crowds will be iu daily presence. Passports are no longer required and this will cause a greater tourist .travel than ever before. ." .. Payments of purses will also be made iu American currency; and, as tlie purses will range iu value from 00. the minimum, to ,500 daily, there is every prospect that an abundance of horses of the better grade will be seen at Havana next winter. Arangements are also under way for tlie transportation of horses direct to Havana from the shipping point. The complete list of stakes, conditions, distances and amounts iu added money follow: Grand Prize of Cuba One and one-eighth miles . 5,000 Cuban Derby One and one-eighth miles.... 10,000 Grand National Handicap One and one-eighth miles 10,000 fCuba Produce Double Kvent First Part One-half mile 10,000 Cuba Produce Double Kvent Second Part One mile 10.000 President Zayas Handicap One and one-quarter miles 5,000 Independence Handicap One and one-eighth miles 5,000 fCuba Mile Three-Year-Old Championship One mile 3, 000 Cuba Mile Two-Year-Old Chainpiouship One mile 3,000 Christmas Handicap One mile and 50 yards 3,000 New Years Handicap One and three-sixteenths miles .." 3.000 Thanksgiving Handicap One mile....... 3,000 American Club Handicap One and one-eighth miles S.YlOO Union Club Handicap Claiming One and one-sixteenth miles 3 000 Hotury Club Handicap Five, . and one-half furlongs 3,000 Havana Klectrie Light and Power Handicap Claiming One and one-sixteenth miles.. 2,500 Caribbean Stakes Claiming One and ono- sixteentli miles ,500 Morro Castle Handicap Three-quarters mile 2,500 Cuba-American Handicap Three-quarters mile 2,500 Marianao Handicap Claiming Three-quarters mile 11,000 Antilles Stakes Claiming Three-quarters mile 2.000 tCuba Juvenile One-half mile 2.000 Total 10,000 For two-year-ohls of 1021. f For three-year-olds of 1021. t For yearlings of 1021. All other stakes for two-year-olds ami over -of 1021. The Cuba Produce Double Event for horses foaled in Cuba only.
