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THREE-YEAR-OLDS OF 1935 Sailor Beware in Greentree Stable Was Busy and Fairly Successful as a Juvenile Showed to Good Advantage Over the Mile Distance. Editors Note This is the fifteenth of a series of articles covering the three-year-olds of 1935, their racing credentials as juveniles and prospects during the current year. Owner, Greentree Stable. Breder, Greentree Stable. Trainer, Wm. Brennan. , f Dark Ronald f Bay Ronald w fAmbassador riA IV. Darkle .Excellenza Haut Brion r "3 i? I Gulbeyaz . m I fWillonyx S William the Third LBobolink II. Tribonyx IChelandry . f Goldfinch o? Uluminata iH ? . fCelt f Commando i f Touch Me Not Maid of Erin o I I Dainty Dame i Handspring g p I My Fair Kentucky t " u i 1 LM I " f Broomstick f Ben Brush t Quarrel Elf I Mrs. Trubbel Hamburg -1 Pankhurst Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. 1934 record ...21 5 0 3 13 0,650 By NORBIS HOYDEN. In Sailor Beware, the Greentree Stable of Mrs. Payne Whitney has a three-year-old" colt that may develop into a better performer than Plat Eye, most prominent of the youngsters from this establishment last season. Most noteworthy of this colts performances last year was in the Junior Champion Stakes, Aqueducts mile dash for juveniles, which generally brings together a band of good two-year-olds. Sailor Beware beat Omaha in this race by running the mile in the excellent time of 1:36. The Junior Champion was Sailor Bewares lone stakes among the five victories he scored during a very busy season. He went to the post twenty-one times, showing to best advantage over the mile Jroute. Sailor Beware is by St. James, from Lady Be Good, by Touch Me Not, and appears a typical product of the George Widener stallion, being full bodied and heavy muscled. True distance runners usually are long and lean. Sailor Beware was brought to the races in May at Jamaica and he performed a half dozen times in a month without scoring, although he was third three times. Rested through most of June and all of July, the St. James colt resumed campaigning at Saratoga to take a dash of five and one-half furlongs for maidens. Running the distance in the good time of 1:06, leading all the way. Sailor Beware defeated Boxthorn, among others. In the United States Hotel Stakes he showed fair early speed, but faltered. In two engagements at Narragansett Park, including the Old Colony Stakes, Sailor Beware ran fourth and returning to Saratoga he displayed average form in the Sanford and Grand Union Hotel Stakes, and then took an overnight handicap with a strong rush through the stretch, just getting up to beat Brown Twig in the five and a half furlongs test. The Greentree representative then proceeded to weaken in the Champagne Stakes and Nursery Handicap at Belmont Park, after being well up early. Displaying an impressive performance over a slow course at Aqueduct, Sailor Beware accounted for the Babylon Handicap, coming from well back in the final furlong to defeat Moisson, Clean Out, Dasher and other fair youngsters. He was shipped to Havre de Grace to run in the Eastern Shore Handicap, and came through with a creditable effort to run fourth back of Rose-mont, Nellie Flag and Go Quick. A week later he moved into greater prominence by nosing out Omaha in the Junior Champion, under a masterful ride from Silvio Coucci. He gave the stoutly finishing Belair colt five pounds in that engagement and set a speed record for the race, even though it had been won by high class youngsters in the past. Moving to Laurel for the Spalding Lowe Jenkins Handicap, the Greentree colt won an overnight affair at one mile in handy fashion, his stablemate, Gillie, running second, while Go Quick was third. He was unable to hold his speed in the mile Jenkins, however, and tired in the final sixteenth to be narrowly beaten by Morpluck, Billy Bee and Firethorn. He might have finished among the first three but for being crowded right at the end. Sailor Beware had no chance to run in the Walden Handicap, due, to the bad jam at the first turn, and was not raced thereafter. Judging from a good many of his races, Sailor Beware appeared a sprinter and not a very good one at that, but the Junior Champion and one or two other efforts in the fall classed him as a colt of some staying power and considerable class. Generally creaking, he does not appear a particularly strong candidate for thrcc-:ear-old honors, but no liberties should be taken with him. Few horses sired by St. James have been true stayers, but there is much in Sailor Bewares pedigree to recommend him. His sire combines excellent foreign blood, while his dam crosses Commando with Broomstick, and his third dam, Mrs. Trubbel, was a half sister to the good race horse and sire, Upset
