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BIG KENTUCKY DELEGATION . Blue Grass State Owners to Be Well Represented at Havana. Some Have Shipped There Already and Others Will Leave at Conclusion of Churchill Downs Meeting. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 14. That Kentucky will be better represented than ever before at the coming race meeting at Oriental Park, Havana, Cuba, which opens on Thanksgiving Day and continues for one hundred or more days, is evidenced by the large number of applications received by Charles H. Lans-dale, one of the stewards at the Marianao course, who is looking after its interests here, for stabling facilities from the horsemen in this section. With few exceptions, all of the Blue Grass turfmen who raced at the Havana track in previous winters will be back on the scene, and; the places ot those who have made different arrangements for the coming winter will be taken by others who have never participated in the sport there before. Frank J. Bruen, general manager of Oriental Park, who is now in the East, spent several days here unfolding his plans to the Kentuckians regarding the approaching winter meeting, and that his visit bore fruit in the matter of obtaining horses to race there, is manifest by the liberal responses that he received from owners and trainers who were undecided where to ship for the cold months and who finally made up their minds to visit Havana. A large consignment of thoroughbreds will leave Louisville for the Cuban course at the windup of the Churchill Downs meeting, and most of them will be sent on a special train upon which excellent provisions will be made for passengers and it will carry them direct to the gates of Oriental Park. . OFFICIALS FROM KENTUCKY. Incidentally Kentucky will be well represented in the official family which Avill govern the sport at the Cuban course. Sam C. Nuckols Jr., of Versailles, will serve as presiding steward, while William H. Shelley, whose home is in this city will occupy the pest of racing secretary. Associate steward Lansdale also hails from the Blue Grass state. This will mark the first visit of steward Nuckols, who serves in the stand at Churchill Downs, Latonia and Lexington, to Cuba, but Shelley officiated there once previously. Nuckols is one of the youngest of the present day racing officials and his work has been favorably commented upon at every track at which he held forth. Shelley held the position of racing secretary on the Kentucky circuit for years, and his presence at Havana is certain to draw a large number of horses there as he has a big following among the horsemen, especially in this section. In selecting its officials, the Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club invaded all parts in an effort to get the best available. James McLaughlin, who will serve in the stand with Nuckols and Lansdale, and C. Cornehl-son, presiding judge, are from the New York racing circuit, while James F. Milton, starter and assistant general manager, sends the fields away in Maryland. S. S. Bender, assistant racing secretary and clerk of the scales, has been holding forth all summer on the minor circuits in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and he has built them up to a high level through his hard work. Marshall brothers Louis and George of Prince K. fame, plan to race in Cuba during the coming winter. They will not have Prince K. to take there as he was claimed from them recently, but they expect to have a formidable stable. A few additions will be made to it before shipping time. SHIP YEARLINGS TO CUBA. Laban Phelps, prominent tobacco man of this city, who has long been connected with the Kentucky turf, has a dozen yearlings destined for a Cuban campaign. Most of them are well-bred and they should cut quite a figure in the racing on the island after January 1. Theodore E. Mueller, one of this citys foremost business and civic leaders, will again send his band to Oriental Park in charge of trainer James H. Moody. Jockey August Yerrat will accompany this outfit. As has been the custom at Oriental Park in previous years, six races will be offered daily with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays, when seven will comprise the program. The daily feature races will be worth from 00 to ,000 as the occasion permits. No racing will be conducted upon Mondays, except during the holiday season. The program book of the meeting for the first nine days, which is now in the hands of the horsemen, found instant favor. All classes of horses are taken care of in it and the owners of two-year-olds will find especial cause for satisfaction as the juveniles are unusually well looked after. On the opening day the Thanksgiving Handicap will be the stellar attraction. It is fashioned for three-year-olds and upward, over the distance of one mile and fifty yards. Entries for it are due on Tuesday, November 27, while weights and acceptances are in order the following day.
