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CHECK IN AT BELMONT PARK Greentree Stable and Division of 0. V. Whitney Horses Arrive. - Candidates lor Valuable Stake Races Included in Big Shipment-Gillie to Be Trained for Preakness. : NEW YORK, N. Y., April 10. Two leading stables arrived at Belmont Park Wednesday morning, the Greentree Stable of Mrs. Payne Whitney and a division of the C. V. Whitney stable in charge of Jack Healey. The Greentree band came from winter quarters at Red Bank, N. J., while the Whitney lot was shipped from the farm, Lexington, Ky. Twenty-three horses were included in the Greentree Stable, while fourteen were in the Lexington shipment. Trainer Bill Brennan had originally planned to ship the latter part of the week, but decided that the two-year-olds in the stable were in need of barrier schooling and ;mbved up the date. Six vans were required for the movement, which was completed in good time and without trouble. The first van was loaded and left the New Jersey farm at 6:30 a. m., and at 9 oclock rolled up to the stable at the Nassau County course. The other fiye vans followed in rapid order, and it was shortly before 11 oclock when the last van carrying the "traps" and stable equipment was unloaded. Heading the Greentree lot were the three-year-olds Sailor Beware, Plat Eye and the California Derby winner Gillie. Feradven-ture, which is a candidate for the Coaching Club Oaks, headed the filly list of the stable. Trainer Bill Brennan was on hand to witness the arrival of the first van, which he saw unloaded and dispatched from the farm. He alloted the stalls for the horses, the fillies on one side of the stable and the colts together on the other side. Today the horses will be given light exercise on the main track, and next week receive their final, preparations for the Jamaica meeting. Brennan has not mapped out any plans for the three-year-olds, but is hopeful that Plat Eye and Sailor Beware will develop into leading colts this year. They ar.e named for the important fixtures to be decided such as the Wood Memorial, Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont and Arlington Classic. The two-year-olds in the stable comprise a promising lot and are liberally engaged in stake fixtures to be decided during the spring. Gillie, which through an oversight, was omitted from the Kentucky Derby will be trained with the Preakness as his main objective. This fellow was given a short let-up following his California campaign, but ,is back in active training and will be start-ed during the Jamaica meeting. Brennan has about decided not to start him in the Wood Memorial due to a weight penalty which will add to Gillies poundage, bailor Beware and Plat Eye will be the reliance for that race. Jockey Silvio Coucci, contract rider for the stable, who is riding in spectacular form at the Bowie meeting, will finish out that session and report to Brennan at Belmont on Monday morning. Jockey Earl Porter, who was secured last winter at Hialeah Park, will remain with the division which Marshall Lilley will campaign for the noted sportswoman during the Havre de Grace and Pimlico meetings. Jack Healey supervised the unloading of fourteen which he will race at Jamaica for C. V. Whitney. The horses left Lexington Tuesday and were attached to a fast train arriving at the Pennsylvania terminal during the early morning. The car was quickly transferred to Belmont Park, where vans were in readiness to transfer the horses to the stable. Accompanying Healey was jockey Robertson, contract rider for the stable. Robertson will on hand this morning to gallop the horses over the main track. Included in the list which will race here thi3 spring are High Glee, Trumpery, Pundit, Pantoufle, The Darb, Blackmail, Synod, Surveyor, Forced Landing, Two Bob, Brant Capuche, Flavour and Microbe. The latter six are two-year-olds, of which Forced Landing and Two Bob raced during the winter at Santa Anita Blackmail, Synod and Surveyor were wintered at Lexington, while the others were raced through the cold months. T. J. Healey took another division to Havre de Grace, which will later be transferred to Belmont Park.
