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GREENTREE STABLE IN MIAMI Twenty -Eight Head Stabled at Hia- leah for Coming Meeting. Even Dozen in String Are Coming Two-Year- Olds Brush Hook Heads Division of Older Horses. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 9. The Greentree Stable, property of Mrs. Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf," has taken up winter quarters at Hialeah Park for the January 11 to March 4 meeting. The main Greentree forces came on from Belmont Park in charge of trainer John Gaver. There are twenty-eight head in all, an even dozen of which are coming two-year-olds. Gaver stated that he had made a number of nominations for the 0,-000 added Widener Challenge Cup and the 0,000 added Flamingo Stakes, as well as other important features to be decided during the forthcoming session. The aged horses which will sport the famous pink and black "striped silks are Brush Hook, five-year-old chestnut gelding; Eli Yale, four-year-old bay colt, and Drowsy, four-year-old gray filly. The three-year-olds are Redbreast, bay colt; Armor Bearer, bay gelding; Birthday, chestnut colt; Perfect Peace, chestnut gelding, and Lourdes, bay filly. Listed on the two-year-old. roster are Hash, Third Degree and Day Off, colts; Roll and Toss and Cherry Jam, geldings, and Slave Song and Twist, fillies. "We had high hopes for Redbreast on his two-year-old showing," Gaver said. "His most important triumph as a juvenile came in the Babylon Handicap at Aqueduct. We expected considerable from the son of Chicle this year as a three-year-old and he performed fairly well, but not up to expectations. I think he will develop plenty of class this winter in the Florida sunshine. He is filling out into a powerful-looking animal and seems to have ! taken a new lease on life." GOES WRONG IN DERBY TRIAL. While preparing for the Kentucky Derby this year, Redbreast went wrong just prior to the Churchill Downs classic when, in the Derby Trial, he was an also ran to The Chief; Lawrin, the destined winner of the Derby; and Stagehand. Prior to this, the Greentree hopes went soaring when Redbreast finished a running third to Bull Lea and Menow in the. ,000 added Blue Grass Stakes. Following his setback in the Derby Continued on fifteenth page. GREENTREE STABLE IN MIAMI Continued from first page. Trial, Redbreasts next best effort was a third to Menow and Thanksgiving in the Withers at Belmont Park. The Greentree Stable is the latest of prominent American racing establishments to arrive at Hialeah, which now includes those of Joseph E. Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club; William Woodwards Belair Stud; Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps Wheat-ley Stable; Mrs. Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Stable Col. E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm; George H. Bull and John A. Morris Saratoga Stable; Jack Keenes Keeneland Stud; Samuel D. Riddles Glen Riddle Farms; Warren Wrights Calumet Farm; Hal Price Headley; DeWitt Pages Maemere Farm; Herbert M. Woolfs Woolford Farm; C. H. Thierot; E. F. Woodwards Valdina Farms; Charles B. Bohn and P. A. Markeys Bomar Stable; Henry Lustigs Longchamps Farm; Edward Benjamins Starmount Stable; Mrs. Charles S. Bromley; Russell Firestone; Thomas J. Healey, Sheldon Fairbanks, Townsend B. Martin, and Phil T. Chinn.
