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WELLBRED SUSIANA Scores Her Fifth Triumph of Present Havana Meeting Chief Sponsor Accounts for Prin ¬ cipal Race of Day Thrilling Finishes Delight Crowd HAVANA Cuba Jan 14 Todays pro ¬ gram at Oriental Park was made up of a series of claiming races which while devoid of a special feature was evenly balanced and keen contests resulted Susiana was the easiest winner of the afternoon and her victory came with the running of the third race a dash of five and a half furlongs which she won with ridiculous ease by five lengths Susiana is a well beu filly by Rock View and the Star Shoot mare Stellata and races for A P Doyle a business man of Savannah Ga Todays race was her seventh at this meeting and on five of thesa occasions she has been returned the vinner finishing second or third in her other races Susiana was ridden by F Merimee and was the well backed favorite She outran the others from the start setting a fast pace in the homestretch and drawing into a long llead Chile finished second and Confederacy third thirdThe The fourth race brought out the best field of the day The western turfman J A Parson furnished the winner in the Cana dianbred Chief Sponsor G Williams rode the Parson racer and kept him off the fast pace set by The Boy until straightened out in the homstretch where he moved up in the final eighth easily disposing of his op ¬ ponents to win at the end by a length and a quarter from Cock o the Roost The lat ¬ ter began slowly but closed fast beating the tiring Janku by a length and a half for sec ¬ ond place placeSEPARATED SEPARATED BY INCHES INCHESAs As thrilling a finish as was ever witnessed witnessedat at Oriental Park occurred in the opening openingdash dash when six of the twelve starters crossed crossedthe the winning line separated by the smallest of oft t margins In fact the race was a thriller all allthe the way with Big Son setting the pace but butnever never more than a few yards in advance of ofMary Mary Mallon the latter fighting it out gamely gamelyevery every inch of the way but just failing to toget get up losing the verdict by a nose Twenty TwentySeven Seven Two Eyes Frascuelo and Smite were wereclosely closely bunched and right on the heels of ofthe the leaders all through the last eighth and i andi only the judges could separate them Mary MaryMallon Mallon which finished second was a field fieldhorse horse in the mutuel and was quoted at 30 to 1 in the books booksj j Another exciting finish came with the run ¬ ning of the second race when Win cr Quit came from last place but one in the stretch to get up in the closing strides beating the tiring pacemaker Huron II by a neck Major Domo the favorite was third beaten by a neck for the second place placeAwning Awning made a runaway of the fifth out ¬ distancing his opponents to the first turn when he was rated in front for the re ¬ mainder of the way El Coronel was second a length and a half behind behindJap Jap Muma scored his third straight victory when he beat Blazonry by half a length in the sixth The latter was ridden with poor judgment by McDermott or he might have won wonIn In accordance with the observance of Mon ¬ day as a day of rest for horsemen and track employes the gates at Oriental Park will bo closed tomorrow The flags will be flying again on Tuesday when racing will be re ¬ sumed with the running of an attractive card of six races racesNOTABLE NOTABLE AMERICAN VISITORS VISITORSConspicuous Conspicuous among recently arrived tour ¬ ists this afternoon were M Babbit S H HiVerkamp iVerkamp and wife of Cincinnati O R W Wj Bonnet Russell Bennet of Minneapolis F G Sietz and Miss M D Kruse of New York City C L Wegefarth of Philadelphia R G Maypole and wife of St Louis W F Drumheller and wife of Richmond Va Max Lehvald of Savannah and H A Porkins and were of Boston BostonThomas Thomas Brothers an employe at the grandstand bar died Saturday night at tho Anglo Saxon Hospital in Havana after an ill ¬ ness of a week He came here from Detroit last November and was regarded as a man of good habits Little is known here re garding his relatives except that he has a sister Mrs Wm Malloy living at Kinkora Ont Notice of his death was sent to that place by assistant manager James Milton but no reply has been received at the jockey club which has taken charge of the remains and has arranged for burial in Colon Ceme ¬ tery in case no word is received from his sister sisterRiverside Riverside the good breadwinner of the Cai mito Stable and a popular idol at the local track will race no more He came out oC ja oCja race on Saturday in such a crippled cori Coutinucd on eighth i aue WELLBRED SUSIANA Continued from first page dition that it was decided to send him to the Caimito ranch where he will end his days in ease easeThe The threeyearold filly Moonlet Way be ¬ longing to the Caimito Stable has also been sent to the farm on account of having bal knees Trainer Walter Carter of the Caimito Stable is planning a campaign on the east ¬ ern tracks during the coming season In April he will take General J M Gomez Aiken Suzaki and two promising twoyear olds to New York YorkMr Mr Thomas Monahan announced that his crack threeyearold filly Marionette has been thrown out of training and would not be again sent to the barrier until the Havre de Grace meeting where she will start in a number of stakes Marionette retires witn an unbeaten record this winter of five win ¬ ning races racesAmong Among the distinguished persons who wit ¬ nessed todays racing at Oriental Park were General Enoch Crowder General M G Meno cal and Carltcn Hurst
