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LADY BROADCAST WINS CUBAN GRAND NATIONAL CN TAKES FINAL FEATURE ! Carries Top Weight to Impressive Victory at Oriental Park. Sundays Program Brings to End Seventeenth Annual "Winter Havana Meeting HAVANA, Cuba, March 14. Lady Broadcast, six-year-old daughter of Messenger-Couscous, owned by Herbert M. Woolf of Kansas City, won the Cuban Grand National, closing feature at Oriental Park Sun day. With yesterdays program the seventeenth annual winter meeting of the Havana-American Jbckey Club came to a close. The Grand National carried an added value of 0,000 and netted the winning owner ,950. Lady Broadcast, carrying top weight, led home Burning Up, from the Denemark stable, while F. A. Carreauds Kincsen was third, ahead of S. S. Friedleins Fortunate Youth. George Collins Thistle Fyrn was the other starter in the field. There was but a short delay at the post for the feature event. Lady Broadcast acted unruly for a brief spell, lunging at the barrier. Burning Up was rushed into the lead and showed the way to the first turn. Fortunate Youth was after him with Lady Broadcast, Thistle Fyrn and Kincsen bringing up the rear. These positions were retained until the field was well settled for the run through the back stretch. Thistle Fyrn improved his position along with Lady Broadcast, while Hanford, who had the mount on Kincsen, brought him up around the bend. Fortunate Youth floundered when put under pressure coming into the home stretch. Lady Broadcast came outside of the leader entering the stretch, drew away, and won easily in hand. Burning Up saved second place by a length from Kincsen. DISTRIBUTE 84,335. During the Oriental Park season the Havana-American Jockey Club distributed in purses and stakes 84,335. Four hundred and ten owners and trainers campaigned during the eighty days. The number of tickets used in wagering in the eleven books was 550,000. Wagering this season, in the aggregate, was slightly off that of last year. The leading money-winning owner of the meeting is J. E. Smallman. The Smallman thoroughbreds won 7,615. Trainer Alexandra came to Oriental Park without a horse. Making no concealment that he was after a ready-made stable, Alexandra proceeded to claim every performer that appealed to him. For Smallman, he claimed nineteen horses. Mrs. Emil Denemark, Chicago sportswoman, represented by trainer R. T. Watts, is second largest money winner. Her stable earned 6,575. S. S. Friedlein, owner of Fortunate Youth, third on the, list, earned 3,805, closely followed by H. M. Woolf, with 3,410.
