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WIDENER HORSES AT BELMONT " 1 " e New Yorkers String Shipped by Private Car From Hialeah. Brevity May Return to Races After Short Season In Stud No Belmont Candidate In Stable. BOWIE, Md., April 8. Ten horses that will carry the silks of their owner-breeder, JToseph E. Widener, during the coming major New York racing season, arrived today at Belmont Park. This .shipment, which Included the three-year-olds Optic and Advocator, and eight two-year-olds, came directly from Miami, Fla., -where they were wintered at Hialeah Park. Two other horses? the three-year-old Sammy and another two-year-old will arrive later from the Elmen-dorf Stud, Lexington, Ky., to augment the Widener string; the smallest raced formany years on the New York circuit. This was made possible by the fact that many of the Widener-owned and bred three-year-olds were disposed of during the Miami racing season. For the first time in many years, Widener will have no representative in the classic Belmont Stakes, a race he has had the proud distinction of winning three times. MIAMI SHIPMENT. The Miami shipment in Wideners private car left there on Monday night, attached to the regular passenger train, and arrived at Belmont Park this morning in splendid condition. It was under the direct charge of head trainer Pete Coyne, who travelled by the same train. Coyne stated that another division of the Widener stable, consisting of ten head, under the care of assistant trainer Danny Stewart, are at present at the Elmen-dorf Stud, Lexington, awaiting the opening of the Kentucky racing season at Keeneland Park and Churchill Downs. They will later be shipped west and raced this summer on the Chicago circuit. Coyne also stated that there is a possibility that the Florida- Derby winner, Brevity,- now commencing his career as a stallion at the Elmendorf Stud, where his services are being limited to ten mares, may be put back in training again later this year, provided the doubtfully-bred son of Sickle or Chance Shot shows a clean bill of health and remains sound. TO BREVITYS COURT. The four-year-old was perfectly sound when he left Hialeah Park for, Kentucky. Mr. Widener is sending four mares to him. They are the Ultimus mare, Look Up, dam of Chanceview; Magic Circle, a three-year-old daughter of Chance Shot; the Hourlesa mare, Fairness, dam of the useful three-year-old Par; and Vesper Belle, daughter of Stefan the Great. The remaining six subscriptions to Brevity have been taken by John D. Hertz, J. W. Parrish, Phil T. Chinn, E. R. Thomas. Lucas B., Combs and Thomas Piatt, each of whom has booked one mare. Brevitys stud fee for 1938 has been fixed at ,000.
