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j j j j l NEW YEAR AND NEW HOPES Every Owner Believes He May Get Brilliant Youngster. Yearlings by Noted Sires Stabled at Hialeah and All Become Two-Year-Olds January L MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 27. None await the turn of the new year more than the breeders and owners of baby thoroughbreds, for January 1 the yearling crop becomes of racing age. And, among owners and breeders of these juveniles always exists the hope of another future great perhaps a War Admiral or a Seabiscuit. Hialeah Park will be the first to exhibit the newly-turned two-year-olds. Many of the juvenile colts and fillies will bear the racing silks of their proud breeders; others will parade to the post in the colors of those who bid highest at the famous Saratoga sales ring. Listed among the sires of these youngsters are many famous horses of the past to include such as Pompey, Gallant Fox, Haste, Hard Tack, High Quest, John P. Grier, Chance Shot, Man o War, Sir Gallahad HIt, Peace Chance, Wise Counsellor, St. James, Sickle, Insco, Reigh Count, Stimulus, Display and Chicle. Sickle, the property of Joseph E. Widener, president of the Miami Jockey Club, and Insco, owned by Herbert M. Woolf of the Woolford Farm, were the leading sires of 1938. Stagehand, ranking money-winning thoroughbred of the year, is an off-spring of Sickle. The Santa Anita Handicap victor was bred by Mr. Widener and sold to Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio, making his first start in the latters colors as a two-year-old at Empire City in the summer of 1937. Insco was the sire of Lawrin, Flamingo and Kentucky Derby winner, and Inscoelda, the years champion two-year-old filly. SIXTY NOMINATIONS. For Hialeahs Seminole Stakes, which is for two-year-olds colts and geldings to be run for a ,000 added purse February 15, sixty nominations are listed with racing secretary Charles J. McLennan. The ,000 added Seminole for two-year-old fillies, February 11, drew eighty-two nominations. Entries for the ,500 added Hialeah Juvenile Championship for two-year-old winners of both sexes on March 4 will be named the day before. The Miami Jockey Club Dinner Stakes for February 22 is by invitation only. Nominations for the Seminole reveal that Continued on fifteenth page. NEW YEAR AND NEW HOPES Continued from first page. the Woolford Farm has named six coming two-year-olds, followed by the Maemere Farm with five; Greentree Stable and W. C. Stroube, four each; Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, three; Brookmeade Stable, Calumet Farm, Phil T. Chinn, Darby Dan Farm, Victor Emanuel, Russell A. Firestone, King Ranch, Townsend B. Martin, J. W. Par-rish, Gustave Ring, Warbern Stable, B. F. Whitaker and Joseph E. Widener, two each, and Wm. H. Berri, Focatcher Farms, Mrs.1 H. L. Good, Thomas J. Healey, Mrs. Ethel D. I Jacobs, B. N. Kane, J. O. Keene, J. D. Norris, Paragon Stables, Mrs. K. Ramsey, Starmount I Stable, Alvin Untermyer and A. Townsend Winmill, one each. LEADING. NOMINATIONS. In the Seminole, W. C. Strouble led off with seven filly nominees. H. R. Bain and Valdina Farms were next, with five; Fox-catcher Farms and Wheatley Stable, four each; Joseph E. Widener, Woolford Farm and J. W. Parrish, three each; Wm. H. Berri, Brookmeade Stable, Calumet Farm, Phil T. Chinn, W. H. Gallagher, Greentree Stable, Hal Price Headley, Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs, J. O. Keene, Maemere Farm, Paragon Stables and Milo Shields, two each, and Bomar Stable, Darby Dan Farm, "Victor Emanuel, Wm. Gates, Mrs. H. Good, H. C. Hamilton, Mrs. John A. Healey, Mrs. Frank J. Heller, John N. Hopkinson, Mrs. Warren Kaine, King Ranch, Townsend B. Martin, Mrs. W. E. Martin, J. D. Norris, C. W. Pershall, Shady Brook Farm, Starmount Stable and Warbern Stable, one each.
