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HAVANAS ORDINARY CARD i 1 , Tuesdays Program Given Over to Cheaper Grade of Horses. i ■ ♦ » Article X. Wins for Mose Gold- blatt and Changes Owners — Sugarmint Defeated. HAVANA Cuba. January IT. -M BeMMotts col ors were seen in front Bgahl at ttriental Park thi-afteraeea when the three. year-old Article X bi-at a band of ordinary caliber in the third race, a claiming affair in which all were entered for . Article X.s victory resulted in a change of owner*. as O. L. Poster, who was represented in the race by Belie Wrack, took the son of Boots and Saddle for ,100. Secretary Nathanson had the cheaper grade of horses in mind when lie framed the conditions of this afternoons program. All six races were under claiming conditions and ordinary horses went to the [tost in all of them. The unexpected happened when Mrs. Grundy romped home an easy winner in the first race. She was the extreme outsider in the betting at 13 to 1 and great wis the surprise of the spectators when she caught the leaders in the last eighth and drew away te win by two lengths. The favorite. Ethel Vale, followed her home, tiring at the end after ruiitiiug pi eminently throughout. Hyeres was third a simr; dfattaace ia adiaai e of Cheiiotta Smith, the latter settiag the pace to the last eighth before tiring and dropping back. Willie Woods wen the seiond race for the local sportsman TVaak Delbarrio. Burns li.i 1 the mount aa Willie Woods and the latter, after racing M,i chine Gunner into def-at. area goin;: away by a couple of leagths. Bey Lnnis was second by three quarters of a leagth, while a battle royal was staged for third money. The Englishman, peaceful Star and Keutmei- fiaishiag in the order named almosi abreast. The favorite. Sugarmiut. was backed into odds-on favoritism in the fourth race, but could do no belter than finish second. Bearer, which was out run in the early part of the race, moved up with a raah rateriag the stretch and at the finish beat the favorite by three parta of a leagth. Malbea bad Hoover under restrain! and could have won nun h farther of; had be « shed. Bainkin leeriag tile post slowly and outrun to the ktretch nun. rleeed with a gre.it burst of speed, in the final eighth and won the fifth rae goiru; aa. b] a leagth aad a half from Kr.itiau. Klias O made a runaway affair of the sixth race. Biddea b. V Bwert, be outran the ethers .. the first turn and drew awaj a the end. but i.u. I to !■ riddea oal to beat Fell* M. by a length. P .1. Stevens elaiined Sugiriuiut for ,100. Jockey Hany Laasford, i ■pealed by ins wife. arrived Weadaj from Sea Orleans and will ride be ••• if Im cm gel dawa Is weight At Orieatal Park four or fiv- yeers age Laasford firsl sprees lata pi iaeace aa • rider whea nuclei reatsact te Kav BpeBd-e. Fraak aTilaoa. who headed lb« list of ariaaiai jockeys at Oriental Park las- v ir with slaty wia uing aaouata, arrived taeat] and baa been eagaged bj the C. v- D. Stable. H. F. Davis received word today of the - add death at Bageratewa, IM., "t the nine Btilij Vig.. by Haaibarg. The mire reccatry prodaccd a fi i by Baaseau. Tin roaagster is thiiwng. Jockey Kennedy, who coateeaBtated lea ml i Kentucky in a shert time, has revised his plans aad a ill continue :o ride lure uutil the close of the eieetiag.
