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CLAIMING RACE CARD Provides Interesting Sport for Big BigCrowd Crowd at Oriental Park Consistent Smart Money Scores ScoresEasily Easily Four of Eight Starters Startersin in Fifth Race in Close Finish HAVANA Cuba February 17 The card at Oriental Park this afternoon was made up of a series of claiming races in which the fields in the majority of the contests were taken from the poorer grade of racers In ¬ teresting contests developed however and the immense gathering which was present en ¬ joyed the sport sportD D E Hammond sent one of his consistent winners to the post when he saddled Smart Money in the fifth race The old son of Armeath II was ridden by T Buel made all the pace and won by a long margin The victory was anticipated by the layers and Smart Money was always the oddson fa ¬ vorite going to the post at 1 to 2 2Four Four of the eight starters in the fifth race passed the judges in a compact bunch fin ¬ ishing as follows J Alfred Clark Guards ¬ man Felix M and After Night They were only heads and necks apart After Night ran as if best and was beaten only through the incompetent riding of Woodstock who got him into a jam going to the first turn After dropping back to last place he worked his way up on the extreme outside and had a winning chance at the eighth post but repeatedly bore over behind Felix M at the end The horse was going fastest of all on the outside 31 ESS KIT 3IAKES GOOD GOODMess Mess Kit backed from six to three to one made good in the opening race of the after ¬ noon Hunt was busy on him from the start and in the early stages he raced Two Eyes into defeat Rounding the far turn Mab moved up but entering the homestretch Mess Kit drew away again only to tire at the end where Hunt was forced to a terrific drive and only beat Mab by a neck The latter came again and finished in determined fashion fashionPort Port Light proved a surprise in the second He was one of the outsiders and in the early stages was a distant follower but Walls got him going when straightened out in the final run and closing with a great burst of speed came from last place to get up in the last ten yards winning going away by a length from Colossus Twenty Seven was probably the best but was in tight quarters next to the inside rail all through the last eighth and was unable to get through With clear sailing he would probably have won wonlO lO Y EXPRESS IX CAXTEIl CAXTEIlW W R Coes good looking threeyearold Pony Express made his opponents look cheap in the third nice which he won in runaway fashion Callahan had him under restraint at the finish where he led The Ulster by five lengths The latter began slowly was out ¬ run in the early stages but in the stretch easily disposed of Rosie IL and Violet Mer sereau sereauAmong Among the list of recently arrived Ameri ¬ cans who visited the race track today were Mr and Mrs A Matson Mr and Mrs Tame Bennett Mr and Mrs Harry Boazman of Dallas Tex Mr and Mrs Thomas Buscher of Chicago Edward Nienaber of Kvansville Ind Mr and Mrs Charles Bosworth Mr and Mrs Fred Schaefer of Cincinnati Dr Robert Donnelly and James Brcen of New York George Nairn of Philadelphia and Wynne Ferguson of New York YorkJim Jim Barnes cf Pelham N Y former open golf champion and Johnny Farrell profes ¬ sional at the Quaker Ridge Club of Now York were guests of Mr and Mrs P L Bergoff of Bayonnc N J at luncheon in the jockey clubhouse this afternoon afternoonCharles Charles A Delbert Gazen of Winnipeg Man was a grandstand visitor visitorMiss Miss Geraidine Farrar the grand opera singer and moving picture star who arrived in Havana Thursday was a clubhouse guest guestS S M Chandler of Pittsburgh Pa enter ¬ tained a party of guests at the clubhouse Senator and Mrs W P Andrews of Atlanta Ga were also among the clubhouse guests guestsMr Mr George Geottel was notified that Clies ley and Roscoc Searcy prominent Republican politicians of Louisville Ky accompanied by their wives would reach Havana Monday from New Orleans and intend making an extended visit here hereDr Dr Ashe had to lake a bay filly foal from the brood mare Clumsy Kate this morning The foal died
