The Washington herald., 1919-02-24
SENIOR DIAz TO
MAKE INVASION
Cuban Sportsman, Owner
Of Best Thoroughbreds at
Oriental, Coming Here.

New York, Feb. 23.-As a result Of
the great improvement shown by
Orestes and other horses in the sta
BILE of Senor A. II. Diaz there will be
another invasion of American tracks
this coming season by the progressive
Cuban turfman. The coming ven
ture will be more pretentious than
that of 1918 where there were only a
few moderate class two-year-olds to
support Orestes, then a three-year-old
and which failed utterly to maintain
the form that made him a great horse
in the winter.
In addition to Orestes, again the
sensation in Cuba, there will be the
four-year-old Zululand, by Assagai-
Lady Doncaster which is the holder
OF the track record of la 10 for a
mile and a sixteenth and has been
showing splendid form. together with
six promising two-year-ol
Eastern turfmen may be prepared
to see an entirely different horse in
Orestes TO the. one that raced in the
Preakness and other events last sea-
son. Under The care oc Trainer Will
lam Mcdaniel the son of Tracery has
developed into a splendid looking
thoroughbred and has been racing up
~ iAAt' AOShS. nc HAS NOT Dbtn TdCeu
TO death and has only two more en-
gagements, the Independence Handi-
cap at mile and an eighth on Mon
day and the Carnival Handicap at a
mile on Sunday. March 2. Afterward
he will rest and gallop on his home
track until the season ends. when he
Will be shipped with the rest Of the
string to one OF the New York tracks.
VIII he Ready.
Mcdaniel is reticent about his plans.
but it is a sure thing that he viii not
attempt to send Orestes to the post ~
the States until hc has had a good
preparation ard is ready to race.
OresteS has been entered in events on
the New York tracks. but the oniv
thing sure is that he will be seen I'm
action at Saratoga. provided he is up
10 a race. Turfmen ara certain thar
he Will make an entirely different
showing to that OF a year ago. Much
the same plan will be followed with
Hululand. hr fact hat botn these
horses have raced on very few occa-
sions during he four mon;hs' sport in
Cuba being sufficient guarantee that
Mcdaniel is wise enough not 10 race
his charges off theI-' feet.
OF the half dozen 2-yCar-olds three
have already won races here. while
the others have shown encouraging
form. Just Fancy. by Colin-Idle
Fanny. the flly that Mr.. Diaz PAID
$500 for, which went to the tobacco
fund, has dual brackets to her credit
and has not been beaten. Another
good one is also a charity flly, the Red
Cross Miss Azurita, by HessianMot
ley. She has won one race and fin.
1Eh oil "a to T,1a- L
another. Blue Wrack. colt by Wrack-
Ocean Blue. also has earned winning
brackets.
Has Star Babies"
Senor Diaz has won most of the
baby races and holds a strong hand
for the Cuba Juvenile Stakes to be
decided Monday and which will go
far toward determining the best
yOungster. Just Fancy, Azurita and
Blue WraCk are among those elig-
money and with DR.. Hall. the early
sensation not nominated. it is quite
on the card that the Diaz Stable
may run one. two. three.
Cubano owners also are prom
inent on the list of winning owners,
but with Frank Weir and Kay
Spence in first and second places.
the former having garnered the
neat amount of s14,S20 as a result Of
a little more than two months rae
ing.
Tho latest list of those which
have won $4,000 or more follows:
+. d. Weir. $14,S2O: X Spence.
s11.475; A. II. Diaz, s7,O75; Ammonia
Stable, s5.72O: ]. Marronc, 1880:
W. Feuchter, s4,32O; F. Scholke.
s4,160: J. w. Pangle. S3,490; NJ. Low
enstein, s3,295; Mrs. H Bowen.
$3.50: Williams Brothers. $3.50; ].
P. Ross, 5000: c. r. Worthington,
s2,960: r. ]. Farris. $500; A. Leg
anna, sass; w. E. Applegate, s2,S55;
Mrs. J. J. Zimmerman, $2,SS0; C.I
Howard. s2.S3O; ]. S. Tyree, $2,520;
]. T. Strife, s2.50O; G. Holmes,
$4,000; G. w. Loft. s2125; O'Meara
Brothers, s2,07O; Woodman Brothers,
$4,000.