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LIKES LATE ARRIVALS FROM FRANCE. New York, November 18. George D. Widener, Jr. visited Belmont Park Thursday morning, and in company with trainers A. J. Joyner, Thomas Welsh and Thomas J. Healey, looked over his own thoroughbreds in the Joyner barn and afterward visited Thomas Welshs new barn, where the Joseph E. Widener thoroughbreds now are quartered. What may be supposed to have interested Mr. Widener most was the dark bay or brown yearling colt, Abadaue, by Marboul Alby, by Rabelais, which was included in the nineteen yearlings which Welsh brought over from France on the Manchuria. It now transpires that in buying this colt for 15,000 francs, Thomas Welsh was acting for George D. Widener, Jr., instead of his own employer, Joseph E. Widener, and the colt has been placed in A. J. .Toyners barn No. 20 to be trained with other thoroughbreds quartered there. He is a beautiful colt in every respect, although, like others in the shipment, he is a trifle low in flesh owing to his long and rough ocean voyage. In all respects Abadane has the look of a real race horse. Not oversized, he lias plenty of size, range and substance for a first-class thoroughbred.
