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SUN BRAE NARROWLY Shows Great Speed to Win Main Race at Havana Mountain Lassie Records Another Victory for W R Coe Fay ¬ elle Defeats Duke Ruff HAVANA Cuba January 21 While the program at Oriental Park this afternoon lacked a race which could be classified as the feature event the different contests made up a well balanced card and keen contests were in order The best field faced the start ¬ er in the fourth race Sun Brae proved the winner beating Col Chile by half a length Sun Brae made all the pace and showed keen speed during the early stages going the quar ¬ ter in 23 the half in 46 and finished out the threequarters in 1 12 Different Eyes the ruling favorite bolted to the outside when entering the homestretch and this put him out of contention Had Col Chile not gone wide entering the stretch he might have won as he was gaining on the winner with every stride strideFayelle Fayelle scored a lucky victory in the fifth when she beat Duke Ruff by a half length Stutts took a desperate chance on squeezing through next to the inside rail entering the homestretch and just did get up This move placed her in a contending position at the eighth post and when the drive came Fayelle outgamed Duke Ruff RuffASSUMPTION ASSUMPTION EASILY EASILYThe The veteran Assumption was in a running mood today and as a result found little trouble accounting for the initial contest of the afternoon After getting away slowly he worked his way up on the outside and drew away into a long lead after entering the homestretch which enabled him to win with his rider easing him up Chevalier was sec ¬ ond and Whippoorwill third both earning their respective positions only after the hard ¬ est kind of a drive in which George W forced them to the limit The latter closed a big gap from a slow beginning beginningThe The public was at sea regarding the con ¬ testants in the second Lotta Speed Twen ¬ ty Seven and Colossus attracted the most support but none of that trio figured promi ¬ nently at any stage of the race The winner came from an unexpected source in F Lr Stephens Foy puoted at 15 to 1 in the books and 5310 for 2 in the mutuels He ran a good race to beat Mambi by three parts of a length with Chincoteague third and finishing fastest of all allThe The followers of form were given quite a shock when Susiana failed in the third race W R Coes Mountain Lassie taking her measure in a busy finish The Coe filly was the pacemaker throughout and after showing the way at a fast clip gamely out ¬ stayed Susiana The favorite challenged on the far turn moving up with a great rush that brought her almost on even terms with the leader but the effort told and tiring in the last eighth failed by just the margin of a neck to turn defeat into victory Edward Cebrians Eastern Star ran a fast race clos ¬ ing a big gap to earn third place in the final strides stridesMANY MANY AMERICAN ARRIVALS ARRIVALSIncluded Included in the list of newly arrived Amer ¬ ican tourists who watched the races today were Mr and Mrs C P Whitehead of At ¬ lanta Ga T II Wickwire of Buffalo Mr and Mrs John M Gibson of Dayton Ohio A M Hartwell of Minneapolis C A Fulton of Baltimore Mr and Mrs Edward Black of New York C P Mattson of St Louis Mr and Mrs P M Shepherd of Chicago Mr and Mrs R C Gordon of New York Dr and Mrs Channing M Wells of Boston Mr and Mrs A R Hill of Springfield Ohio Ad ¬ miral Sir William Pakenham with captain and officers of the British flagship Calcutta now in Havana harbor who will be guests at the Jockey Club for Tuesdays racing racingMr Mr Carlton Hurst American consul at Ha ¬ vana was host to a party of visiting Ameri ¬ can friends in a grandstand box boxW W II Karrick trainer of the W R Coe stable who has been enjoying a visit of several weeks with his son Kenneth will de ¬ part Tuesday for New York and upon ar ¬ rival will begin his work preparing the Coe and 1 1 K Knapp stable horses for the spring racing These horses are wintering at Bel mont Park Mr Karrick is thoroughly en ¬ amoured of Cuba and has declared his inten ¬ tion of returning next winter for a much longer stay stayW W A McKinneys Buddie Kean one of the best horses racing in Cuba winner of four races at this meeting will be absent for sev ¬ eral weeks due to an injury sustained to his foot while being galloped a few days ago agoAnother Another big delegation of officers and men from the Italian warship Bronte enjoyed tho races this afternoon afternoonJockey Jockey T Burns was suspended three days by the starter
