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MATES FOR WRIGHT SIRES Chance Play, Bostonian and Hadagal to Be Bred to Number of Outside Mares This Season. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 3. Chance Play, Bostonian and Hadagal, representatives of three of the most successful sire lines in American thoroughbred horse breeding, will be mated with mares owned by Warren Wrights Calumet Farm here in 1939, and with a number of outside mares owned by other breeders. These three stallions will make the 1939 season at Calumet, Dick McMahon, manage- of Calumet, has announced. Chance Play, winner of 37,946 himself and sire of numerous stakes winners, is the premier sire at Calumet, standing for the top-season fee of ,000. A son of Fair Play, Chance Play represents the sire line which this year gave the American turf the champion Seabiscuit and his rival, son of Broomstick. Bostonian is a son of Broomstick and thus a direct male descendant of the immortal Ben Brush, whose blood appears in the female, lines ol both Seabiscuit and War Admiral. Bostonian, himself winner of the Preakness and sire of such stakes winners at Maedic, Bottle Cap, Commonwealth and others, will make the 1939 season, Mr. McMahon has announced, at a fee of 00. Hadagal, the junior member of the sire trio at Calumet, is a son of Sir Gallahad HI., sire of Gallant Fox. Thus Hadagal is a scion of the Teddy line, represented by the successful sires Sir Gallahad HI., Bull Dog and Aethelstan in this country. Hadagals first get are two-year-olds of 1938 and of this first crop to reach the races, six had won up to November 1. Hadagals fee, according to manager McMahon, is 00.
