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! i I ] I ■ BELMONT PARK ARRIVALS Widener, Fair Stable and Ranco-cas Stable Horses Reach Track in Good Condition. NEW YORK, N. Y.. April 17.— Five car-lead" of hordes, the property of Joseph E. Widener and the Fair Stable of Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, arrived at Belmont Park from winter quarters at Louisville, Ky. The hordes shipped well and they were in charge of trainers Pete Coyne and Alex Gordon. The run East from Louisville was an exceptionally fast one. The Fair Stable cars were pulled out from the loading chute at Douglas Park Saturday morning at 7 :30 oclock and arrived at Belmont Park Sunday afternoon at 1 :30. The J. E. Widener band, accupying three cars, were joined on the same train as that carrying the Fair Stable at Columbus, Ohio. The J. E. Widener band totals twenty-ceven horses, of which twenty-two are two-year-olds. The horses, according to trainer Coyne, shipped well and are fully recovered from a mild attack of sickness which delayed the shipment several days. Jockey Earl Sande, who has been getting down to riding weight by galloping horses for George Odom, reported to the Widener stable this morning. Chance Shot, a leading member of the handicap brigade. Osman and Kiev head the list of the older horses. Alec Gordons charges were pronounced in good condition this morning. The stable is headed .by the Derby candidate Oh Say. This fellow has been working well in Kentucky. Sixteen horces make up the band, fourteen of which are the Fair Stables and two belonging to Gordon himself. The pretentious Rancocas Stable arrived at Belmont Park during the early afternoon. Five three-door cars were needed to transport the fifty horses that trainer S. C. Hildreth shipped up from the farm at Jobstown. N. J. The Rancocas horses have been undergoing training both indoors and outdoors for the past two months, and are well advanced. The stable is especially strong in three-year-olds despite the absence of Ariel. ♦
