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0. S. GETS INTERNATIONAL II. J5on of Buchan Presented to Remount Service by B. B. Jones. 4 Gift Horse Boasts of Royal Blood Sires Record in England Brilliant Big Horse. i i BERRYVILLE, Va., June 27. The remount service of the United States Army, which had about a thousand thoroughbred fctallions already at the work of getting half and three-quarter bred horses for the cavalry, artillery and transport divisions, acquired still another today when Bernard B. Jones, proprietor of the Audley Stud of Clarke county, Virginia, donated International IL, son of Buchan and Charlabelle, which had for a couple of seasons been covering thoroughbred mares in Virginia and Maryland. These remount stallions are serving in various parts of the country and furnishing the army with a type of horse second to no military horse anywhere in the world. He is a tougher and more enduring animal than the army has had in any of its wars so far. Only recently organized, the remount service, as understood today, was not functioning effectively enough to be of practical value when the United States entered the great war in the spring of 1917. The only serviceable stock the expeditionary force in France had for artillery and transport were horses bought in France at heavy cost, the French having been breeding from thoroughbred stallions for military horses for upward of three-quarters of a century. Jones has presented other thoroughbred stallions to the remount service as have other horsemen and breeders, notably Joseph E. Wid-ener, Edward Riley Bradley, Harry Payne Whitney, August Belmont, Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, etc. The service never before obtained a stallion, whether by gift or purchase, that has had anything on International H. Sixteen and a half hands high, splendidly boned and balanced, the outlander he was bred in England weighs about 1,200 pounds and has proved a splendid breeder. There was no room for him at Audley, where J. D. Griff-ing is managing one of the biggest thoroughbred nurseries in the world. The Audley stud is easily the most considerable thoroughbred breeding establishment in America. Not more than 75 per cent of its stallions and mares are in Clarke County, however. There are many in Kentucky. BLOOD LINES OF BEST. International TXs pedigree is as good as his looks. Buchan, his daddy, a son of Sun-star and Hamoaze and a half-brother of St. Germans daddy of Twenty Grand and St. Brideaux, won two revivals of the Eclipse Stakes on his native heath and one each of the Prince of Wales, Champion, Lowther, Spring, Chesterfield, July, Craven, Chester Vase and Doncaster Cup. Since quitting racing he has sent up horses of the first class in Book Law, Short Story, Buckler, ! Arabella, Bucellas, Jennie Dean, Duke of Buckingham, Prester John, Shian Mor, etc. Bucellas, like Buchan, a distance runner, is getting good race horses at the Bowling Brook Stud of Alfred Hennen Morris and Robert Walden at Middleburg, Md. A young daughter, Buckup, was a good three-year-old filly in last seasons racing. International H.s mother, Charlabelle, a daughter of Charles OMalley, won an Oaks at Epsom in 1920 under the silks of A. P. Cunliffe. International II. defeated thirteen good youngsters in England in 1920 in a revival of the Great Yarmouth Plate, five furlongs and twenty-five yards, after finishing second to San Marino in a Rous Plate, second to Peggy Honora in a Byrkley Maiden Plate, second to Rose Willow in a Woodcote Stakes and second to Froth Blower in a Worksop Stakes. At three he defeated ten in a renewal of the Coleford Handicap, at six furlongs, at Chepstow, and finished second to OCurry in the Lingfield Park Plate, at one mile, beaten about a length in 1:33. Jones bred International II. in England before bringing Charlabelle to Virginia for service at Audley, where the daughter of Charles OMalley died a couple of seasons back. With International II., Jones presented Miss Starr, Parisian and Regent Queen and a two-year-old daughter of Durbar H. and Lady Stone to the Remount Service. Miss Starr was a dazzlingly fast sprinter of a few seasons back. Durbar H., which died recently in Maryland, won a Derby at Epsom for the late Herman P. Duryea. Griffing has sent the stallion Rockminister, son of Friar Rock and Mallard and half-brother of Captain Alcock, to Dr. R. J. Vickers farm near The Plains, Va., to make the season of 1932. The Plains is just over the Blue Ridge from Audley. There are many millionaire sportsmen ambitious to breed successful jumpers in the Virginia Piedmont, and Rockminister, a Huron Handicap, La-tonia Championship and Pimlicp Cup winner, and, like Captain Alcock, a great distance runner, is sure of generous patronage. Green Cheese, Muskogee and several other jumpers won upward of 0,000 for Rockminister last season. Green Cheese, owned by Mrs. John Hay Whitney, was the years fencing sensation. He scored in revivals of the Broadhollow, Grand National, Governor Ogle and Manly Memorial chases, earning 3,-585. Rockminster sired from Heskaluna, a daughter of Hessian and Kiluna and half-sister of Kai Sang, Soul of Honor and Mark-iluna, the dame of Her Grace.
