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f IRST PAST THE FINISH Panaman Leaves New Orleans and Wins at Havana Erica in Auspicious Debut on onTurf Turf Bobbed Hair Finally FinallyMakes Makes Good HAVANA Cuba January 2 The French bred gelding Panaman which C Knight brought here recently from New Orleans was victorious in his first start of the meet ¬ ing when he accounted for the fourth race of the day He made a game finish coming from behind and getting up in the last twen ¬ ty yards to beat Cock o the Roost by three parts of a length Panaman was bearing over to the inside at the end where lie was crowding Cock o the Roost and Redmdn RedmdnThe The Luke McLuke gelding Perhaps ran another smashing race when he came back this afternoon and won again defeating Gold ¬ en Chance by a safe margin although driven hard at the end This pair was backed to the exclusion of the others and had the race be ¬ tween them themThe The concluding dash of a mile and fifty yards brought a narrowly achieved victory for Williams Bros Orris a neck separating her from Homam at the end of a hard drive The latter would have won in another stride or two as Orris was tiring badly and just lasted long enough enoughA A firsttime starter in F C Frisbies Erica a threeyearold son of Vulcain Dinawick made an auspicious racing debut by scoring an easy triumph in the opening dash of the afternoon afternoonTwelve Twelve maiden racers made up the field in this race with Confederacy the popular choice The latter set a fast early pace but tired after going a half and Erica taking tho lead easily drew away and was only can ¬ tering at the finish finishBobbed Bobbed Hair after three previous unsuc ¬ cessful attempts in which she finished in ¬ side the money finally made good when she beat Humpy by a length in the second race The finish in this race found the second third fourth and fifth so closely grouped that only the officials could separate them themEASILY EASILY BEATS DISCUSSIOX DISCUSSIOXThere There was heavy sup rt of Immokalce in the third and the son of Maln nont raced up to expectation easily taking the measure o Discussion and Salamander the most fan ¬ cied of the others The winner began slow ¬ ly but once in his stride soon made up ground and taking the lead entered the stretch to successfully resist Discussions challenge was drawing clear clearPaul Paul Powers the wellknown owner wht raced a pretentious string at Oriental Part three years ago arrived on Tuesday Mr Powers was accompanied by his wife and reported that his horses are now at th Benning track near Washington D C CW W J Cahill owner of The Roll Call arrived today C A Reynolds was another owner among todays arrivals arrivalsMany Many new faces were noted in the large throng at the track today Among the vis ¬ itors was A J Cermak the Chicago poli ¬ tician who occupied a private box in the grandstand Madame Marguerite Silva the famous opera singer who recently arrived at Havana for a brief vacation was another anotherMr Mr H E Fries president of the Winston Salem Railroad of North Carolina who is on a pleasure trip with his wife was an in ¬ terested spectator of the sport Eugene H Stearne a prominent business man of Cincinnati who is making his annual visit to Cuba was included among the vis ¬ itors to the track trackThe The first race of the year for horses bred in Cuba is carded for tomorrow It is at ¬ tracting more than ordinary interest among Cuban racegoers The race will be the fourth on the program and for maiden threeyear olds the distance being fiveeighths fiveeighthsThe The nineyearold Ballot Sally K stallion Bally made his first appearance under colors at Oriental Park New Years day since he was retired to the stud following the close of the 19201921 racing season During tri interval the horse has been at the farm of his owner Dr Ricardo Dolz
