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CUBAN PROSPECTS BRIGHT Demand for Stabling Room at Havana Greater Than in Any Former Year CINCINNATI, Ohio, October 11. Attracted by the alluring array of stakes and valuable purses offered this year by the Cnba-Americau Jockey and Auto Club horsemen at all of the important racing centers in this country and Canada are responding to tbe clubs invitation to participate in the cightli annual season of racing at beautiful Oriental Park in greater numbers than ever. Racing under ideal weather conditions in a city that has been described as a -winter paradise is making a stronger appeal than ever this year and has resulted in inducing not only a record number of owners to decide to go to Havana but has also been the means of attracting many of the better class of stables. The demand for stabling room this year is such that the club will be enabled to discriminate and pass on only the desirable racing establishments. The stabling accommodation at Oriental Park is limited to S0O stalls and already enough horses have been booked to fill this quota. An improved grade of racing material, in the opinion of general manager Frank J. Bruen, is conducive to a superior brand of racing, and as the Cubans, after seven years experience, have been gradually educated to high class racing, it is only natural that the club management should strive to give them the best possible class of sport. . In order to accomplish this Mr. Brnen has been hard at work the last month canvassing the horsemen, and has succeeded in getting some of the more representative stables to arrange for a campaign in Havana next winter. The removal of the passport restrictions and the greatly improved shipping facilities for the horses are two things that have been determining factors in deciding the owners course of action. Under tbe new arrangements horsemen are not subject to the annoyance of procuring passports and the delay formerly entailed in embarking at Key AVest, and landing at Havana, neither will they be bothered by having to unload their horses at Key West. By shipping tl cir horses by express, they are sent right through to their destination tbe same as though they were being sent to any part of the United States. PASSPORT RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. Elimination of the passport regulations is also bound to bring to the island next winter an increased flow of tourist travel. Heretofore when one wanted to visit Cuba he bad to wait fully ter. days for bis passport, which had the effect of curtailing the number of tourists. No.w the tourist, for Cuba fc-an engage his passage and make the trip -with no more bother tlian if - he were traveling to California or any other distant point, in the United States. Although the entries to the twenty-two stakes to be lun during th meeting do r:ot close until November "T a large number have already Iseen received. The Grand Prize of Cuba Handicap, one of the richest or the fixtures, is receiving, a liberal number of nominations, due to its importance and value. This and the Cuba Produce Stakes arc two races endowed by the Cuban government- The first-named has; an added money Yaliie, of .",000 and the other 0,00lt. Tlie increasing- interest: in breeding and raeing-in Cuba is. being displayed by the government; in endowing these stakes, -which now coismajid. the most, infetest on the island. The Cuba Produce Stakes in particular has aroused wonderful interest frpnv the fact that it is a stake exclusively for horses .foaled in: Cuba and it is ac-eoir-plisliing much, in the way of promoting and encouraging the thoroughbred breeding industry on the island, which in the past finv years has made. rapid strides. This stake Is run in two parts, the first one being decided in December and the second pai;f . in March. In order to heighten interest in this st:ike an extra inducement is offered in the .shape .f a gold cup valued at 2,500 to the owner of the horse hat wins both parts of the stake in the .same racing season.
