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GO BY SPECIAL TRAIN Seven Cars Carrying Greentrees Back to Belmont Park. Mode of Shipment From Georgia Quarters Most Elaborate Kail-road Men Remember. MACON, Ga., April 12. The Greenlree Stable, of Mrs. Payne Whitney, which wintered here left today for Belmont Park. The stable was moved north on a special train, which, according to veteran railroad men, was unparalleled in history. Seven cars made up the shipment three horse cars, one baggage car for traps and other stable equrpmcnt, one coach for extra men, a dining car and one pullman. John J. Brady, of the Horsemens Transportation Association, was responsible for the train; which was routed over the Central of Georgia from Macon to Atlanta, where it will be turned over to the Seaboard. That company will handle it to Washington, D. C, where it will be picked up by the Pennsylvania and then into Belmont Park over the Long Island. The train left here at 10 a. m. this morning.and is due at Pennsylvania station on Sunday at noon. Another hour will be required to move the train out to Belmont Park. Trainer Murphy, who watched the loading of the train, assigned his first assistant, Willie Brennan, for years with the late S. C. Hildreth, to take care of the other details thereafter. Forty-five horses are in the shipment and, according to reliable information, they are well advanced in their training. The stable is composed mostly of two-year-olds, the majority of which were bred and raised ly Mrs. Whitney. The older horses in the lot, of which Goose Egg, a filly, is best, are. heavily engaged in stakes to be run in the East. The horses were moved in early in the morning from the farm and fiuickly loaded in the cars. The traps, which had arrived earlier than the horses, were stowed away, and a plentiful supply of water was placed in the different horse cars. The railroad men, who eagerly watched the loading, received the "all-loaded" signal from Murphy and the train pulled out on what was be-. lieved to be a record run to New York. Years ago the late August Belmont moved his stable from one track to another in his privately owned car, called the Nursery Stud. Todays shipment, the most extensive one and by far the longest for any single-owned racing stable, is believed to establish a worlds record in that kind of shipment.
