Largest Weekday Crowd: Sees some Interesting Racing at Oriental Park-Main Attraction to Assumption, Daily Racing Form, 1921-01-09

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I I i i i ■ • i i 1 • LARGEST WEEKDAY CROWD ] Sees Some Interesting Racing at Oriental Park — Main Attraction to Assumption. HAVANA. Cuba. January 8. Tbe attendance at Oriental Park Ibis afternoon was the largest of any weekday dariag the meeting Well balanced fields brought about keen up ri and in Im- majority of races tie Finishes iren close enough to anu-e great int uisiasm. The feature race, which was ran as the lourtli. was won by Assumption, which beat bis I piaeiit :n easy fashhn after making all the ;.,,.. lit -i It had l be nut Bad rii-bed hint to tbe fma i:i ihe earij -Mm- and never left tae re-ult in doubt. Tin- Cuban owned Barensea proved an easy win mi- iii the i poller, coming 1 1 1 nil behind to beat "it Si « .i-i Change by a length nasi a half. In tin- -ecoiid Norfolk I. l!e won- down the lirin-.-Cavan Boy and a! the finish led by a -cant half length. Blaaonry, weahlj handled !iy Eamca in tin early stages, clueed with a rash, Il was a liht finish in t ;i :!:: ! race between Gratian, Natural and Danlzi!*. i .rat a n. after i getting to the half mile post. ;- la-te i knag enough to secure the dici-ion by a nose from Natural, with ll.intzie only beaten I u bead fur second place. Daatsic was going fastest of all at the end. The re-ult of the fifth proved something of a surprise when the two choices, Dake Duff and Mildred finished la-t. The winner turned up in IJhymer. which came from behind in the stretch run and beat out Coiistanlin- by a neck in the filial stride. Jockey Bideaoar, who had the mount on Stepson in the sixth race yesterday, was suspended ten days for roagh ridiag. He crossed ill front of the others Soin to the first turn. I Banian a jam. The jockeys selected to ride in the Caribbean Stakes, tbe feature nf tomorrows program, are: Baford Batwell. Grundy Pick* aa. Furbelow — Lancaster. Lackawanna Hunt. The Pirate Wilson Betty -I. - Fames. Fiiew i rib McLanghlia, One-mo. |he live veer hi bin ,.,, » . to geg Frireb-s Jewel, the property of It. Mock, died Fri-day night of acute Indigent km. The rail started eight times dnriag the present mrrtiag. won ana race, was third pact and unpbieed -i times. Batwell was farced to cancel his encasements to ride Lady Hester and sir Wm. Johnson ewhag la his inability io make the Weight, G. Hul-ieft. the Canadian apprentice, rode hi-first winner of the meetiag when be broagbt Beaoc Iribarrens Itavensea home in front la the first race. Alfred Levy and secretary Mi-Inn ken of the County Fair of laducah. Ky.. arrived t day from Miami for a short isi;. «


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