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I , i ■ ■ 1 HAVANA PROGRAM DIVIDED . i Equal Number of Races at Short Distances . and at a Mile or Over. HAVANA, Cuba. March 9. -Sprinters and horses that fancied a longer route than the usual sprinting distances bad equal opportimit ie- at Oriental | Park this afternoon. The first three races were at five and a half furlongs, while the last three were at a mile or over. The first of the latter was run as the fourth and furnished an exciting con- , tost when Audrey A. lasted long enough to beat ■ Keltoi by a neck. Penman put up a good finish on j the winner, which tired at the end. Chimera made a show of her opponents in the ; fifth. Pool sent her to the front going to the first | tarn and, opening up a big gap in the stretch, led i I ie Mary Krb by eight length-, with the latter j the same distance in front of Bulger. Garner kept Br.viilimnh closer up than usual in | the sixth race and saved him in back f the pacemaker until straightened out in the homestretch, where he forged to the front and iu a driving fin ish beat Blondol by a length. Eddie Tranter won a lucky race when he led the t other- home in the opening dash. Ho was ridden by Maiben. allowed plenty of speed from the start and. I rounding the far turn, drew awaj int.. a long lead and at the end tieat Jessica K. by three lengths. The latter would have beaten the winner but tor interference at the half-mile post, where Nolan was forced to pull up. She then closed almost a dozen lengths from the three-eighths post to the stretch turn, but tired in the final strides. . " Four of the seven starters that went to the post in the second race finished necks apart, with Mollie Puff, an extreme outsider, getting up and winning by a neck from Spods. another neglected in the betting. Hutchison, the favorite, was bird. The winner paid the handsome return of 1-1. JO in the mittuels. Ruddles, after making all the pace, won the third by a loug margin. The farther he went the bigger the lead he opened until he was twelve lengths ahead of Don Thrush at the finish. The winner tagged the in-ide rail for the entire race. General BMaager Frank J. Brnen is making arrangements for the running of the Jfl.l.HMt Grand Prize of Cuba Handicap, to be run Sunday, when he expects the big race to draw to Oriental Park the greatest crowd of racing enthusiasts that ever gathered within the spacious confines of the plant. General Mm J Pershing, who is due to arrive at Havana on Friday lor a brief visit, during which time he will he the guest of General Knooh Crowder. will be on hand to witness the race and will be a distinguished club house guest on that afternoon. J. O. Keeae, a member of the Kentucky State Rariag Commission, who was acre earlier in the meeting, will return the latter part of this week to witness the raaaiag of the Cahaa Darky, in which his gaud celt Llewellyn will 1 e a starter. Neil Enright. the well-known nice track man. arrived from New Orleans and expects to remain here to the close of the local season .lames Butler and judge Morgan .1. OBrien, witii his wile and daughter, embarked this evening on a steamer bound for New York. Charles E. Whitmau. former governor of New Yot-k and K. C. Stotcsbury, a capitalist of Phila delphia. were prominent among the clubhouse guests this afternoon.
