view raw text
MILTON AND LEVEY CONFER General Manager Arrives from Houston with Stable Reservations. Havana Officials Announce Plenty of Horses Will Be on Hand for Coming Meeting. HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 27 After a conference with Albert Levey, president of the Havana American Racing Association, the aggressive Jim Milton announces "there will be more horses than we can take care of," for the fifty-two-day meeting at Oriental Park beginning January 12 and ending March 12. Milton, general manager of the plant, is authority for the information that 600 American head will be stabled after the new year, which is a record for stable reservations in Cuba over a stretch of seven years. The steeds will come all the way from New York, New Orleans, Maryland, Charles Town, W. Va., Indiana and Lexington. There are 225 horses from the States on the grounds at this early writing. Milton arrived yesterday from Houston, Texas, where he cleaned up come personal business. He is here to stay. He has leased a beautiful home in the palatial residential section of Havana for himself and his folks. MUCH BUSINESS ON HAND. No sooner did he reach his office at the Marianao course than things began to hum. He went through voluminous mail piled high on his desk, and then walked through the stable area to see to it that everything was working in perfect unison. "We will have a banner meeting," Milton promises. "The horse situation is well in hand, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Ive had to turn down some late requests for stable reservations, thats how anxious owners are to be represented in Cuba. We will have high grade horses and the competition will be of the very best." Louis Maul, vice-president of the association, trips in with the announcements that Freddy Hopkins, famous trainer, will introduce Buck Benny, now munching oats at Hialeah, during the meeting. The thoroughbred is owned by Jack Benny, famous movie and radio star. Nancy Patterson, famous society belle of Pittsburgh, has stabled four head. She is a licensed trainer. Originally Nancy was a show ring rider. A couple of years ago she purchased a stable of horses. She resides at Beechwood Farms, located at Sharpsburg, Pa.
