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FOALS ARRIVING AT AUDLEY Son of St. Henry and Kiluna Is Highly Regarded. Youngster Second to Be Foaled at Famous Virginia Farm This Season Boba-shela Coming Back. BERRYVILLE, Va., Feb. 12. Not the least attractive of the foals of the current breeding season at Bernard B. Jones Aud-ley Farm, from which the winners of 359 races and 50,738 came last season, is a son of St. Henry and Kiluna, which arrived January 17. There is no better bred racer in embryo at any other American thoroughbred nursery. This youngster is a brother of Soul of Honor, a good two- and three-year-old of a few seasons back, a three-quarters brother of Kai Sang, Morvichs most formidable rival among the two-year-olds of 1921 and a Lawrence Realization Stakes winner in 1922, and a half brother of Markiluna, dam of Her Grace, one of the best mares of the current era. Dam and foal are doing nicely. St. Henry, a son of The Finn and Lady Sterling, is a half brother of Sir Barton and Sir Martin. Sire of Butter Beans, which won ten races last season; St. Henell, Maybe, Uncle Henry, Follies Girl, Bowie Clark, War . Tidings, My Pet, Bedford Saint, Jessica, Sterling Silver, Indian Guide, Virginia Beauty, Henry Horton, Bless Her Heart, Cucamonga and Clare B., as well as Soul of Honor, he is a splendid breeder. He is serving at Audley this winter after several seasons in Kentucky. With him there are Carlaris, Bright Knight and Rockminister. Carlaris was in Kentucky for three seasons. The St. Henry Kiluna foal was Audleys second, a daughter having been born to Virginia Reel in Kentucky January 18. This one, a bay, claims Hal Price Headleys promising young Phalaris stallion, Prahamond, for sire. Lady Myra foaled a chestnut filly to Neddie, a young son of Colin and Black Flag, now serving at Willis Sharpe Kilmers Court Manor Stud, which is some forty-five miles farther up the Valley of Virginia. War News, foaled a chestnut filly to Rock-minister, one of Kai Sangs great three-year-old rivals of 1922, a Latonia Championship and Huron Handicap winner and sire of Green Cheese, Americas jumping champion of the season past; Yeomanette, a bay colt .to Bright Knight, on January 31; Pearl Mesta, a bay or brown colt to St. Henry, on January 31. SPRING-LIKE WEATHER. The weather in these parts was springlike throughout December and January. Bright Knight, a descendant in the female line of the immortal English mare Sceptre and a son of Gay Crusader, has contributed Her Grace, Knights Call and Gallant Knight to American racing. His two-year-bid winners of last season were Bright Luna, Triassic, Tappanaugh, Gay Party, Some Knight, Fair-lee and Bright Beauty. Audley Farms manager, J. D. Griff ing, has sent Bracadale, son of Fair Play and Loch Linnhe, which raced with conspicuous success for two seasons under the silks of Harry F. Sinclair and a Withers Stakes winner in 1924, to David N. Rusts Rockridge Farm, which is just over the Blue Ridge in the Piedmont division of Virginia, near Leesburg, to make the mating season of 1932. Bracadale, sire of the winners Petabit, Pollys Bay and Lady Bracadale, is a superb chestnut, nearly "seventeen hands tall, if not all of that, and superbly balanced. If he has in him any of the temperament that is supposed to be inseparable from the makeup of sons of Fair Play and grandsons of Hastings, he has not revealed it. There is no quieter horse anywhere. Nor does there appear to be a surer foal getter. To his offspring he bequeaths both bone and substance. Three or four Audley mares will be mated with Bracadale, which Samuel C: Hildreth rated the fastest two-year-old of eastern racing in 1923 and best of all the three-year-old milers the following spring. In November Mr. Jones thought of breeding to Woodcraft Ormondales last good son, and Bobashela, an older stallion claiming the same sire, but changed his mind when Kay Spence expressed the opinion that both horses would train. The legs of both are clean and strong again. Before he became lame in the spring of 1930, Woodcraft was considered Derby material by the late Miller Henderson, one of the Audley trainers. Henderson won a revival of the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace and many other races with Bobashela, which is seven this year. Woodcraft is five. Spence has just completed the construction of a straightaway of six furlongs at Audley. He has built a set of stalls for schooling all Audley racers at the starting end of this course. The main training track is a mile around. The half a hundred or more horses of various ages that will bear the Audley silks in various parts of the country this season are in fine condition. Thanks to the fine weather they will be ready for colors early.
