The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-12-15
mrs. WHITNEY IS
STARTING EARLY
Has Quartet of Likely Youngsters
to Carry Her Colors
in Races.

New York. December l4.-Mrs.
Payne whitney Is wintering seven
horses at Belmont Park. or this coll
lection four are wo-yesr-olds. foaied
at James r. Keenes castleton stud'
in Kentucky. The three Older horses
are the weIi-known performers: Web
Carter. Wrinkle and Boisterous.
James owens. fer many years a
leading steeplechase rider in this
country. England. ireland. France and
Belgium. is handling Mrs. whitney 5
string. The two-year-o are par
ticuiarly god type for cross-country
racing, and they have already SHOWN
in trials enough 10 convince the most
exacting turfmen that they possess
every essential for stake form, either
for racing on the fiat or through the
field.
Mrs. Whitney some time back de-
cided TO make" her steep!echasers
when they were tYo-year-olds. For
this reason owens gave the juvenile
Jumpers a long, slow preparation, be-
ginning with flve weeks training in
o corral. The aptness shown by the
Youngsters was amazing, and in the
early autumn they were ridden by eX-
per!enced steeplechase jockeys over
several fences on the schooling
grounds In these morning perform
Ances nary a one turned a head.
The names. breeding and color OF
the quartet that will carry the pink
and black silks Of the Greentree
stable--the nom de course OF Mrs.
whftney-follows:
True Heart. bay gelding. two years,
by Disguise-Feaity. By ST. Frusquin.
Summary. bay geiding. two years.
by Voter-Sumida, By The Sailor
Prince.
Ballet. brown hily. two years. by
Ben Brush-Coppelia, by Kingston.
Delicious, chestnut nlly. two years.
by Delhi-Rapture. BY Onondaga-
The latter is rapid going miss,
and while she fairly flies at her fences
is not a "chancey" jumper. She is
the specifies: one in the lot, and II
viii take a clinker OF any age to mea-
sure strides with her going a turn of
the field right now.
Ballet moves in the steady going
manner of a Bramble. Her sire. Ben
brush, has transmitted his friction
less stride TO this hlly.
True Heart and Summary have the
size. substance and bone of weight
carriers. and their action and clean.
class performances under aolors
Wrinkle. the fve-year- brown son
Of Bitter ot-Attainment, went into
winter quarters IN excellent condition,
and he will probably show much I'm
provement next spring. Wrinkle $
winning races last summer were the
Between the Flags Cup at Belmont
Park Terminal. the Challenge Cup at
the Country Club meeting, Brookline,
Mass, and the Dosoris Plate at the
meeting OF the Piping Rock Associa-
tion.
Web Carter, who, despite his light
barrel and general lack of stoutness.
packs weight remarkably well, Is now
eight years old. The bay son of Men
tsne-Amphoro ran his best race of
Terminal. hs won the Retribution
Challenge Cup. defeating Charles
Pfzer's great steeplechaser. Herculoid.
by q head in a decidedly thrilling
finish.
Web Carter carried 1s3 pounds. con-
ceding four pounds TO He-culoid-
Charles l.. Appleton. who had the leg
up on the winner. rode perfect race,
timing the final drive 10 a nicely
Web Carriers other winning race was
over the course of the Miilbrook
Hunt Association
Boisterous. the three-year-old chest
nut daughter OF Hamburg Hurry Bur
L. thus full sister TO the celebrated
racehorse and sire. Burgomaster, was
raced and won on the fiat in the sea-
son lust closed. She has been put
through her PAGES on the schooling
grounds, and her racing In the flu
ture will be confined to this branch
of the sport The snap and vim dis
played by Boisterous in her initial
trial led her exercise boy to remark:
Say, she sure is a bird in the air.
Mr. Appleton will ride in the races
exclusively for gentlemen riders.
while the professional jockeys, Tommy
O'Brien and Otto Heider. will do the
~bootingr in others.