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DESCRIBES AGA KHANS STUDS ♦- Michael Beary Firm Believer in Supremacy of Irish-Breds. • Indian Potentate Maintains Thousand Acre Cstate in Emerald Isle — Owns Four French Farms. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., April 30— Michael Beary, the famous Irish jockey, who arrived in New York a few days ago, did not tarry here long. He immediately left for California to pay a brief visit to Hollywood as the guest of Edgar Wallace, the famous novelist and playwright, at present engaged in moving picture production. Beary and Wallace have long been friends. Beary rode several winners for the famous Englishman and his wife, who now have their horses in the care of the jockeys brother, John, at Tilshead, in England. Edgar Wallace, for many years an owner, is now getting together the material for a stock farm and has already obtained several royally bred young mares, all winners, to form the nucleus of his establishment. After spending a few days with Wallace and visiting the world-famous Irish tenor, John McCormack, at his California home, Beary will retrace his steps East. He will proceed to Kentucky and Virginia, and while South will be the guest of John Hay and Mrs. Whitney at their Virginia estate. It is Bearys intention, if time will permit, to inspect all the more important thoroughbred stock farms in Kentucky. He is a keen student of bloodstock breeding and has visited all the more important stud farms in England, Ireland and France. He desires to learn at first hand how our most successful breeders raise their thoroughbred stock and compare the methods employed here with those in the Old World. IRISH THOROUGHBREDS BEST. Beary firmly believes that in no other country can better race horses be bred and developed .than those produced in the Emerald Isle. "As good looking, well boned and developed horses in every way are bred in England, when they face the real test they lack it, whatever that may be that is found in the Irish thoroughbred," he declares. Before sailing from England to this country Beary, at the request of his chief employer, the Aga Khan, inspected the Indian potentates extensive thoroughbred stock* raising farms in Ireland and France. In Ireland the Aga Khans farms cover more than 1,000 acres, and more than thirty of possibly the best-bred mares in the world today are roaming the spacious paddocks. The Aga Khan and the director of his Irish stud farm, Sir Harry Greer, are firm believers in giving the mares ample space to roam at large. Some of the outstanding mares at this farm are as follows: Cos, granddaughter of the Derby hero, Orby, the dam of the Eclipse and Champion Stakes winner, Rustom Pasha, and Cotaki Pasha; Uganda, a French-bred mare, winner of the Prix de Diane French Oaks, dam of the Cesarewitch and Derby Cup winner, Ut Majeur; Eagle Snipe, dam of the Stewards Cup winner, Le Phare; Voleuse, dam of the Jockey Club Stakes winner Le Voleur; Po-mare, daughter of the Derby hero, Pommern, and dam of the Ascot Gold Vase hero, Pomme dApi; Teresina, dam of the Irish Oaks heroine, Theresina; Saucer, dam of the speedy Teacup; Friars Daughter, dam of this years classic prospect, Dastur, and Blanc Mange, dam of Tarte Mason. YEARLINGS IN IRELAND. At his Irish farm the Indian potentate has at present thirty-two yearlings, twenty-two colts and ten fillies. Collectively, they are said to be as good-looking a lot as any thoroughbred expert could wish to cast eye upon, but if one were to single out a specimen for individual mention, Beary fancies the gray colt half-brother to Ut Majeur, by Tetratema, from Uganda, as an exceptional youngster. All the yearlings are the produce of the most successful sires holding court in England, Ireland and France. The Aga Khan does not keep any stallion for service in Ireland, but at the Highclese Stud, Newbury, England, his Two Thousand Guineas winner, Diophon, sire of numerous winners, including the Guineas winner Dio-lite, holds court. The ten-year-old son of Grand Parade and Donnetta had a full subscription list last year and is available to breeders this season at a fee of ,500. In France the Aga Khan has no less than five different stud farms in the province of Normandy, all about twenty miles apart. In France, where the government does not tax owners of shes on their fees as in England, the Indian potentate has four horses at stud. They include the 1930 Derby winner, Blenheim 1927, son of Blandford and Malva. This horse had a full subscription last year, his first season at the stud, and is available this season only to approved mares at a fee of about ,000. He holds court at the Haras de Marly-la-Ville Seine-et-Oise, near Paris. He has for comrade Zionist 1922, winner of the Irish Derby and runner-up to Manna in the Derby. The Irish-bred son of Spearmint and Judea had a full subscription list this season at ,000. TWENTY MARES IN FRANCE. Dark Japan 1923, son of Dark Legend and Blouzelinda, winner, among other stake races, of the Goodwood and Manchester Cups, holds court at the Haras des Marettes Pres Voucques at a fee of about 00. The fourth of the Aga Khans stallions, Rustom Pasha 1927, by Son-in-Law, from Cos, a horse he bred at the Sheeshoon Stud, Ireland, will be available to a limited number of mares at a fee of 00. He holds court at the Haras de Martinvast, Manche. Of the twenty-odd royally bred mares which the Aga Khan breeds from in France, most interest attaches to the flying Mum- taz Mahal, a gray daughter of The Tetrarch, ■from Lady Josephine, by Sundridge, out of ■Americus Girl, by Americus, from Palotta, ■by Gallinule. She is easily the queen of the ■farm. Beary says her yearling colt Brad- Idy, a gray son of Blandford, sire of the r winners, Trigo and Blenheim, is the : best looking and most promising youngster he has ever seen. The Aga Khan has thirteen other yearlings at his stud farms in France, all of which will be raced next year by their owner and his son, Prince Aley Khan. The Indian potentate has decided not to offer in future years any of his young stock at the annual Deauville yearling sales.
