Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-08
Trainer McCreery's Good
String UnIoaded Yesterday.
GREENE HEADS THE BUNCH
Dinner Stakes Changed to a Guaran
~ teed Event.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CLOSE SOON
Mack Sells Waddell to st. Louis
New Worlds Skating Record.
Golf at Palm Beach.

Tom McCreery Is one OF the first of the
Long Island trainers TO ship TO Benning.
The string that McCreery will race during
the coming meeting of the Washington
Jockey Club was shipped from Long Is
land Thursday and was unloaded at the
local track yesterday.
Greene. who races in the colors OF T. NJ
Cassidy. is one of the promising ones in
Benning Spring Handicap. He was a
handy sort of horse last fall and Nc
Creery is of the opinion that he is good
enough to have a chance for the prize.
He has wintered we'll and there should
be little trouble in bringing him to racing
condition.
There is nothing the matter with the
way Greene is bred. He is by Greenan
out OF Tongese. and accordingly a
half-brother 10 Tongorder and High Or
der. This last named one Just missed
greatness by breaking down. In 1900.
carrying equal weight he beat Kinley
Mack and Jean Beraud in final for the
BROOKLYN Handicap that was later won
by kinIey Mack. He broke down in the
work.
Another in the McCreery string is old
Right and True. who still gives evidence
OF being able to win some sprint races.
Royal Lady. who races in the colors of
RoXie AnEarola. is another. and Obert is
the only other of the older horses he will
train. Obert did not show a great deal as
a two-year-old last season. but he is of
the Albert and Herbert strain. and is one
that should improve greatly when the dis
tances are stretched out.
In addition to these. horses McCreery
has five very likely two-year-olds in his
care. BY his early arrival at Benning he
hopes to have ample chance to be ready
for the opening, March %.
tiles of The Pippin and Counterpart to
the Newcastle stable. Both are two-year-
old fillies. The Pippin is a half-sister to
Wave Crest. being by Ben Strome out of
Spindrift. Counterpart bears the same
relation to The Squire, being by Sandring-
ham out of Homespun.
Announcement has been made of the
stakes % the Washington Jockey Club
TO be run at the spring meeting. which
begins March 33. There is one marked
change in the offerings, The Dinner
stakes. which formerly had an added
money value of $1,000. is now made
guaranteed stake. The winner is guar
anteed $500. second 300 and third $3.50
Last season the fifteen subscribers to
the Dinner stakes were: August Bel
mont. Perry Belmont. Columbia stable.
J. W. Colt. W. c. Eustis. Ivan Fox.
George Howard. F. r. Hitchcock, James
Kerr. E. A. Mitchell. Robert Neville,
Oakley stable ]. G. Oxnard. j. P. Story.
jr. and II. II. Westcott.
The subscriptions for the Dinner stakes
close February Is.
Another change is found in the naming
Of stake. What was known the
Easter Monday selling steeplechase will
he run as the First OF April selling stee-
piechase.
The stakes which close February ~
and are announced are: For two-year
Olds. the Dinner stakes. the Washington
Nursery and Jesse Brown cup; for three
year-olds and upward. the Benning Spring
handicaps to be run the first and last
Saturdays of the meeting. and the ANA
teur cup. The steeplechases are, Spring
handicap steeplechase. First of April SELL
ing steeplechase. Chevy Chase Hunters
steepiechase and the Spring Hunters
steeplechase.