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DAILY ARRIVALS IN CUBA Expect About 500 Horses by Time for Opening of Meeting Inaugural on January 12. HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 20. By the opening of the meeting 450 thoroughbreds will be housed in the new Oriental Park stable area, according to Jim Milton, general manager of the Marianao plant. They will be fit and ready to compete for the rich purses hung up by Albert Levey, president of the Havana American Racing Association under whose auspices the fifty-two day race meeting wil be conducted January 12. Milton has been swamped with applications for stable reservations. They have come from all sections of the states. Many California horsemen are anxious to ship to Cuba. Earl Simpson, of San Ysidro, Calif., wants to stable four horses. They include Old Maid, a four-year-old. According to Simpson, Old Maid triumphed at Bay Meadows for ,500 and is now running in handicap events; Peggy George, a five-year-old, which runs at about ,500, and "two very high two-year-olds, Abide and Mountain Apple." Fred B. Smith is anxious to show "five other horses." He is willing to bring them all the way from Fredonia, Kansas. R. L. Anderson, of San Bruno, Calif., has two or three head, and T. R. Hunt, of Evansville, Ind., has two head he wants unloaded at Marianao. Lieut Santos Rivero, of the Cuban Army, is well swelled up these days because of the purchase of three horses from the States. They are Speedy Skippy, Strathdale and Baby Way. The lieutenant, an ardent race enthusiast, hopes to grab a few of the ,000 purses. The three horses arrived recently. Another recent arrival was Dev, owned by J. E, Lewis.
