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NEW YORKS 1923 OUTLOOK Prospects Bright for a Notable Season of Spring Racing Messenger Challenges Attention Cherry PIo PIoStar Star of TwentyFour Dicing Trained Trainedfor for Grecntree Stnfole NEW YORK N Y March 31 Racing ex perts have already seen enough of the ma ¬ terial upon which New York is to depend for most of its sport in 1923 to warrant the belief that the season which will be in ¬ augurated at Jamaica on Wednesday May II will be notable in many respects respectsThe The stretches at Belmont Park Aqueduct and Jamaica are alive with horses these mornings the candidates for the threeyear old specials receiving the bulk of the atten ¬ tion though the best of the colts and fillies in the juvenile division are coming in for a lot of favorable comment That so many of the fillies are prepossessing is a good omen not only because of the promise it gives of highclass sport in the races exclu ¬ sively for the gentler sex but because of their potential value in the stud studMessenger Messenger as usual challenges the ad ¬ miration of everybody as soon as he appears How this grand looking colt has come through the winter and whose chances of training soundly for his engagements has already been discussed He is pointed for the Belmont Stakes but is an eligible for both the Preakness and Kentucky Derby DerbyGOSHAWK GOSHAWK WELL LIKED LIKEDXext Xext to Messenger the most talked of throeyearold at Belmont Park is G A Cochrans Goshawk This son of Whisk Broom II and Dovelet by Voter was about at the top of our twoyearolds in 1922 His victories included the Saratoga Special and Great American Stakes In the former he beat at even weights Martingale Rialto Messenger McKee and Tall Timber No horse was more consistent in his racing and the event which placed Goshawk on a pin ¬ nacle was his second to Dunlin in the Hopeful Stakes He conceded that sterling colt fif ¬ teen pounds and suffered defeat by less than a length The gameness displayed by Gos ¬ hawk in that race must have convinced Mr Cochran that he had secured a bargain when he paid Harry Payne Whitney 50000 for the grandson of Broomstick Goshawk was a trifle leggy as a twoyearold but as a threeyearold he fills the eye of the con ¬ noisseur completely He stands full 153 hands 1 and has grown into a superb horse He pos ¬ sesses great length and his muscular devel ¬ opment is unusual particularly in the region of the gaskins which are powerful His condition at this time is all that trainer Shilling could wish wishOn On top of the hill Scott Harlan has the horses of the Grecntree Stable that are intended for flat racing There are twenty four in all and at their head is the game and consistent threeyearold Cherry Pie a homebred and a credit to the popular es ¬ tablishment whose colors he bore so gallantly last year Some twoyearolds could beat Cherry Pie a little for speed but none out ¬ matched him for that doordie quality j vhkh in the most conspicuous attribute any truly great race horse can possess While Cherry Pie won four good races at two the contest which gave him the greatest prestige was his second to Sunference in the Hudson Stakes when he packed 130 pounds to the winners 115 and gave as good colts as Zev and Martingale eighteen and fifteen pounds respectively He was one of the best of the juveniles of the early spring winning the Keene Memorial Stakes defeating among others the crack Sallys Alley and Cresta while he was second to McKee for the Juve ¬ nile Stakes StakesCherry Cherry Pie is not of the robust type and being a gelding he never will be but he is whipcord and whalebone in his makeup and impresses one with his wear and tear quality He is now fully sixteen hands His shoulder is unusually good and though rough hocked there is a world of power in the wellmuscled quarters which are conspicuous for their driving power A gelding he is not eligible for either the Preakness or Belmont but is a surelire Derby candidate barring acci ¬ dents dents31OOXUAKEH 31OOXUAKEH UNKXOWX QUANTITY QUANTITYMoonraker Moonraker also a threeyearold is an unknown quantity but is well engaged in all the threeyearold races He is a typical Broomstick in conformation but is chestnut in color his quarters being liberally sprinkled with black spots Like Cherry Pie he too is home bred So is Barbary Bush which i is at Brookdale in company with Rialto The 1 fact that the Greentree Stablesbred Cherry r Pie which is by Chicle son of Spearmint t from the tine old jumping mare Cherry Ma lotte Barbary Bush Moonraker and the 2 good fillies SolLsa and Untidy the first year of Its existence as a thoroughbred nursery r is remarkable The results achieved are evidences of the sound judgment employed 1 in mating the mares It is safe to say that t the fair owner of Cherry Pie had the pleas ¬ ure of winning enhanced a hunderfold by f the knowledge that she had bred him her ¬ self selfThe The Greentree establishment has a number of finelooking twoyearolds but The Vint ¬ ner by Omar Khayyam Mary Maud by Irish Lad which cost 9500 and See It Through by Jim Gaffney Continue a 9 100 yearling surpassed the others in qual ¬ ity The former was a neat yearling While not a big colt now he has sufficient bulk if j he possesses speed and courage to win the j best of our races His top line is beautiful and his loin conspicuously good while a straight hind leg is another point in his fa ¬ vor See It Through is a different type He is bigger in every way and stands over more ground While largo he is not gross His shoulder is beautifully placed and there is a world of power back of the saddle At first glance ne resembles Sennings Park of whom I Harlan was fond but will be a stouter horse I nt maturity Tryster is the best of the old horses in Harluns charge He is owned by the Westmont Stable and no horse at Bel J mont has wintered better He should be a I factor in Uie early spring handicaps
