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YOUNG REIGH COUNTS PLEASE » First Crop of 1928 Champion Impresses Expert Horsemen. * Fourteen Colts and Nine Fillies in First Crop of Brilliant Hertz Horse — Stamps Progeny. • Whether Reigh Count, were he articulate, would feel disposed to point with pride to his achievements as a stock horse in his first season of stud service or merely shrug his shoulders and want to know what else could have been expected of a vigorous young thoroughbred stallion, John Hertz, his owner, and the staff at Leona Farm, which is in Northern Illinois, where he is living in regal splendor with Last Reveille, daddy of Reveille Boy, winner of the American Derby of 1930, are delighted with it. Fourteen colts and nine fillies constitute his first crop and nine of the colts and six of the fillies belong to Mr. Hertz, although two of the fillies, the offspring of Watch Me and Grey Duchess, came into being at Arthur B. Hancocks Claiborne Stud of Kentucky, where the mares were sent in December to drop their foals and be bred to Sir Gallahad III., sire of Gallant Fox. Four of six mares bred in 1930 to the American three-year-old champion of 1928— victor in revivals of the Kentucky Derby, Miller Stakes, Huron Handicap, Saratoga Cup, Lawrence Realization and Jockey Club Gold Cup — and winner in England in 1929 of a Coronation Cup, that failed to foal, have been barren time and again in the last few years. One hasnt foaled in four seasons. Reigh Counts offspring at Leona Farm are: Ch. c, from Witchbroom, by Negofol. Ch. c, from Anita Peabody, by Luke McLuke. B. c, from Tetrarchs Captive, by The Tetrarch. Br. c, from Wild Denise, byWildair. Ch. c, from Kashmir, by Teddy. B. c, from On Parade, by Grand Parade. Br. c, from Titter, by Tetratema. Ch. c, from Salome II., by The Tetrarch. Ch. c, from Pan of Roses, by Peter Pan. Br. f, from Watch Me, by Luke McLuke. Ch. f. from Annie Gowdy, by High Time. Ch. f, from Grey Duchess, by Le Dragon. Ch. f, from Nettie Stone, by Friar Rock. Ch. f, from By Play, by Luke McLuke. Ch. f. from Say No, by Ultimus. His offspring at other nurseries are: Ch. c, from Concession, by Campfire. Ch. c, from Ima Baby, by Peter Pan. Ch. f, from Laughing Lady, by Superman. Ch. c. from Fancy Light, by Campfire. Ch. c, from Virago, by Fair Play. Ch. f. from Rondelle, by Light Brigade. Ch. f, from Rose Eternal, by Eternal. Ch. c, from Hidden Star, by Burgomaster. Reigh Count is not what the breeding sharps call a pure dominant, which is to say he doesnt get chestnuts invariably as a pure dominant with a sorrel coat would. Fair Play got them good of all colors, so does his brilliant and successful son Man o War. But Reigh Count has stamped everything foaled at Leona with his physical impress. His sucklings are short of back, broad over the loins, beautifully quartered and splendidly underpinned. They keep their legs well under them and are as active as can be. In the way they carry their heads and in the shape of their heads they are strikingly like their distinguished daddy. The Anita Peabody colt was sick in his first fortnight of life. But, thanks to the ministrations of Arthur Naylor, the Leona superintendent, who sat up with him two or three nights, he recovered completely and is now one of the bullies of the place. Leona has been fortunate these twelve months in having plenty of succulent grass. There was much more rain last summer and fall in Northern Illinois than Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee had. Arthur Hancock, admitting that a man who brings sixty to one hundred yearlings by various stallions to the Saratoga sales every season has no business singling any particular stock horse out for special commendation, has declared that the Reigh Counts at Claiborne are the best looking sucklings there. The Hidden Star colt, which was sold recently at Lexington with his dam. was bred by Philip Chinn. The Leona mares which have been mated with Reigh Count this year are On Parade, Ouiblette, Wild Notes, Anita Peabody, Salome II., Titter, Jolie Legende, Splendid Jay, Tetrarchs Captive, Chesty Ann, Kashmir, Miss Begoe, Annie Gowdy, Sayno, By Play, Wild Denise, Vanish, Nettie Stone, Cotton Blossom, Ioulia and In Bounds. Mares from other nurseries that came to his court are William R. Coes Elvina and Sweep Music, Val Cranes Compact and Lee Adrin. Robert A. Fairbairns Breathing Spell, Mrs. Helen Hay Whitneys Friars Song, Arthur B. Hancocks Abbatissa and Peroration. W. L. Hernstadts Fair Hour, Marshall Fields Stolen Secrets and Morton L. Schwartz Gunplay. Elvina has a bay filly by Pompey at her side at Leona, Compact and Lee Adrins colts by Wigstone; Breathing Spell, a colt by Sir Gallahad III.; Friars Song, a filly by Kai-Sang; Abbatissa, a colt by Wildair; Peroration, a filly by Mad Hatter; Fair Hour, a filly by Waygood. With an abundance of succulent blue grass in the paddocks in which they and their mothers play around every day, these sucklings and their dams are in splendid condition. *
