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STABLE OF MUCH PROMISE Julius Fleischmann to Be Represented by High Class Band of Racers Next Year. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 21. When T. II. McCreery brings the Julius Fleischmann horses up from Aiken, S. C, where they are being wintered, he will have in his care a carefully selected band, well calculated to cut an important figure in the New York sport. Mr. Fleischmann made many important purchases of both yearlings and developed horses, most of which were selected by Mr. McCreery and it will be strange indeed if the silks of the Middle Neck Farm, the name under which Mr. Fleischmann campaigned last year, do not become much more prominent than ever before. Many of the most important purchases were made from E. Eknayan, the Armenian sportsman who had a full measure of success on the French turf. Several of thesa are richly bred yearlings. In all there were twenty horses brought over early this month and fifteen of them are yearlings. With the five older horses, and with the Fleischmann jumpers already in this country, they were shipped to Aiken S. C, where they will be fitted for the 1925 campaign. McCreery will ship to Belmont Park about April 1, and his present plans are to have some of the jumpers ready for the Maryland steepelchases in the spring, but the yearlings, then two-yeai--olds, will not be called upon to race until later in the New York season. Since the arrival in this country one of the yearlings, and one well thought of, was lost with a fatal attack of pneumonia. This one was Carloman II., a bay of Console and Carlite Roger. The others at present are enjoying the best of health and rapidly becoming acclimated. But Mr. Fleischmann is not confining all of his racing efforts to this country. He has a considerable stable in France which is presided over by the veteran American trainer, Galen Brown. George Fisher, who is agent for Mr. Fleischmann, is in this country at this time and Saturday he will take the mare Nophine back to France, shipping on the Minnetonka. This marc raced through the field in this country for Mr. Fleischmann this year and it lias been decided to turn her over to Galen Brown for a French campaign with an idea of breeding her after one more season on the turf. One of the most notable purchases brought over by McCreery for the Fleischmann American string is Herrovian, a four-year-old bay gelding by Nassovian Lady Brenden, by Brenden. This horse was a frequent winner, both on the flat and over the hurdles, and was first in eleven of his last fourteen starts, never finishing worse than third. It is possible that he will be raced on the flat, but at present he is intended as one of the jumping string for 1925. The others that will be raced through tha field are Theodose, a sonofllouli Thematia; Booty, a. five-year-old horse, by Levanger Plyte ; Dandiprat, a three-year-old son of Sans Le Sou and Danie Marie II.; Away, a gray four-year-old son of Clonmeen and Far Gone, as well as Carabinier and Thorndale, two that raced under the Fleischmann silks this year. Of these importations, Dandiprat and Theodose are French, Away and Booty, Irish, and Harrovian is an English horse. Mr. Fleischmann has shipped his string of polo ponies to Miami, where he will amuse himself between playing and going racing through the winter months. Mr. and Mrs. McCreery came up from Aiken to spend the Christmas holidays with Mr. McCreerys father at his New Jersey home. The. elder McCreery now beyontl the four score mark, is one of the most distinguished of old time turf men and it is doubtful if therie is a man of this day who has so many personal reminiscences of the turf.
