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EAST VIEW IN FAST RACE Defeats Some Fast Sprinters in Winning Havanas Feature Salamander and Ballyncw In ThrHllnnp Dnel Stutts Good Ride Enables Job JobThayer Thayer to Win HAVANA Cuba January 16 J J Rus sells Last View a son of Pebbles and bred by James Butler at his East View Farm in New York accounted for todays feature at Oriental Park when he won the Cabanas Handicap a dash of threequarters which i brought out some of the best sprinters on the grounds groundsEast East View was ridden by G Fields and j was saved from the fast pace to the stretch I turn where he responded with a remarkable I burst of speed which landed him a half length in front of the tiring Dr Hickman The winner ran the threequarters in 112 which is a bit faster than he has been run ¬ ning here during the last few weeks weeksTodays Todays program was equally divided be ¬ tween races at short distances and those at a mile the last three being at the last men ¬ tioned distance Racing conditions were pleasant and a large crowl turned out to witness the sport sportThe The opener called for threeyearold maid ¬ ens and the winner turned up in Jennie C which came from behind to beat Kentucky t Smiles by a neck Cisqua the favorite fin ¬ ished third The latter led into the home stretch where she looked like a certain win ¬ ner but when the final test came quit quitAnother Another close finish came with the run ¬ ning of the second race when Salamander beat the even money favorite Ballynew by j a head The pair raced like a team all I through the last quarter At the end Sala ¬ mander proved the gamer gamerStutts Stutts rode a good finish on the winner in the fourth in which an ordinary band made up the field Job Thayer was the j lucky winner Ollio Palmer after being shuffled back in the first eighth closed an i immense gap and although beaten by a neck was third and going faster than all and j would have won had the distance been fifty yards farther fartherFIRST FIRST FOR LADY RACHEL RACHELLady Lady Rachel Avon her first race at the meeting when she beat Edith K by a length in the fifth fifthHart Hart Denham was an arrival from St Petersburg this morning and will remain a couple of weeks before going North NorthAmong Among the visitors was J McElroy Bow ¬ man president of a chain of big New York hotels and the principal owner of the Sevilla Hotel in Havana Edward A Cudahy of the Cudahy Packing Company of Omaha and j Chicago accompanied by his wife Rear Ad miral W H Bronson retired United States Navy accompanied by his wife wifeAmong Among other interested spectators were Raymond Silz Mr and Mrs Winthrop Al drich of New York Mr and Mrs C W Chadwick of Omaha J W Morgan of De ¬ troit Mr and Mrs J Liver of London Eng land and Mr and Mrs Raleight of Chicago t tAfter After being galloped fiveeighths on the 1 Oriental Park track Monday Gus Enloe the nineyearold chestnut horse by Flax Spin ¬ ner Grace Campbell dropped dead while re turning to his stall Dr F W Ashe at ¬ tributed the horses death to heart disease He was the property of A D Bellew BellewS S T Baxter who is weeding out his stable yesterday disposed of two horses at private terms Dad a fouryearold by Vandergrift I Oseetah went to E L Fitzgerald while R i Miller acquired Gupton a threeyearold by Hanbridge Grandes I j Melvin a sixyearold gelding by Martinet Lady Esther bred by R D Williams at Blackwell Okla owned by W E Suggs j succumbed to enteritis at the track this I morning morningW W II Shelley racing secretary of the Ken ¬ tucky tracks who has been enjoying a months vacation in Havana departs for his home in Louisville tomorrow by way of New Orleans He expects to come back next win ¬ ter for a longer stay stayTodays Todays attendance at Oriental Park was considerably augmented by the presence of many recently arrived American tourists who are now coming to Cuba in large num bers to escape the rigors of the northern climate t
