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CUBAN ARRIVALS CONTINUE Nearly Four Hundred Horses Now on Grounds at Marianao. Expect Colony of 600 by Inaugural Day of Meeting Plant Much Improved Predict Great Hevival. HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 24-. Horses! Horses! Horses! There will be no dearth of thoroughbred material when Oriental Park gets back on the racing map next month. At this early writing the population of the stable area at Marianao. where the beautiful track is situated, is 388. Of this number 228 are recent American arrivals and the remainder those which have been on the grounds some little time. Albert Levey, president of the Havana American Racing Association, sponsoring the fifty-two-day meeting January 12 to March 12 expects 600 horses from the States to be stabled by the first of the new year. Six carloads containing eighty-eight horses, three each from New Orleans and Charles Town, W. Va., checked in yesterday. Several m6re carloads from Maryland and New Orleans will arrive over the next week-end. "With 600 new horses on the grounds, Cuban turf enthusiasts will see some top-notch competition, and I have no hesitancy stating that we will have a banner season," predicts Levey, the New York sportsman who has invested upwards of a quarter of a million dollars rebuilding and remodeling both the racing strip and the Casino Na-cional, gaming palace. The Sport of Kings had been dying a slow but sure death in the land of manana, especially in the last six years and Levey came to the rescue at the psychological moment, so to speak. The New Yorker is confident of restoring the turf sport to the high level it enjoyed back in the golden era of "Curley" Brown, Charlie Stoneham and John McGraw, and John Mc-Entec Bowman and Charley Flynn.
