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THREE-YEAR-OLD PROSPECTS OF 1939 IMPOUND By NOBBIS BOYDEN i A Impound cannot be considered among1 the outstanding candidates for three-year-old honors on his record, but at the same time what he has done plus his breeding and type suggests an improvement that may make him very troublesome within the division. He is by Sun Beau, a failure as a two-year-old and during the early portion of his three-year-old campaign, but thereafter such a rugged and capable campaigner that he became the worlds greatest money-winner. It is too much to predict that Impound will prove another Sun Beau, but there probably will be some races this summer in which he will not take no as an answer. Already he has proven his worth to Alfred Vanderbilt, who purchased him as a yearling, earning ,420, mostly in second money last season, and nearly doubling that amount in his winter campaign at Santa Anita Park, marked by a victory in the San Vicente Handicap over Our Mat, Porters Mite, Sweet Nancy and Xalapa Clown. The San Vicente was at seven furlongs and Impound covered the distance in 1:23, three-fifths off the track record, to nose out Our Mat, which he had to down in a thrilling stretch drive. Porters Mite was a well beaten third, while Xalapa Clown weakened in the stretch to finish sixth. In his two previous efforts at the Arcadia course, he had won an overnight race at six furlongs, and was a good-closing fifth in the Santa Maria Stakes at the same distance after encountering considerable trouble at the furlong pole when making his run. Porters Mite was victorious in that event. In the Santa Anita Derby Impound had to be content with third place, six lengths back of Ciencia and at Xalapa Clowns heels after coming from well back in the final quarter. He had a slight excuse in the running and the track might not have been just to his liking, being deeper than it had been in his San Vicente effort and in his final sparkling workout for the Derby. Impound made sixteen starts as a juvenile but won only one race, that a three-furlong dash at Santa Anita the previous winter. But he was laid away until August and all his remaining thirteen outings except two were in stakes, and he was second in the Champagne in which Porters Mite set a new worlds record for six and one-half furlongs straightaway, to Johnstown in the Richard Johnson Stakes and to Challedon in the "New England Futurity over a heavy track. He also was third in the Saratoga Sales Stakes, fourth in the United States Hotel and Walden and fifth in the Belmont and Pimlico Futurities. In some of his efforts against the best two-yeaiolds in the country, Impound would come from well back to finish stoutly, and in other races he would go well in the early stages only to weaken towards the end, thereby causing trainer J. H. Stotler to believe he required particular riding to show his best. At the same time, Impound racing also suggested that he had yet to find himself and required further development. That may have been one reason Impound was taken to the winter wars. He demonstrated improvement, but after performing in the Santa Anita Derby, the Vanderbilt colt continued to leave the impression he had yet to show his best, and as he gains maturity he may display a steadiness in racing over a distance of ground that will make him a factor in the three-year-old features. Impound appears to be the best of Sun Beaus get to show so far and would come by his staying quality from that great son of Sun Briar and Beautiful Lady, by Fair Play. Both speed and stamina would be imparted from his dam, Embargo Arts, the dam, of which, Quatres Arts, was a sister to Mr. Jinks, a good race horse and sire in England and a son of the brilliantly fast Tetratema. f Amphion. S tSpcculum fSundridge "j , .Suicide , I VSierra. ....... 3 Springfield pq . Sanda fSt. Frusquin .St. Simon w LSweet Briar II.. ........ 1 Isabel I Presentation. !; Orion f Dubia N r m -j , S; l J Hastings.....:............ Spendthrift I f Fair Play........ 7... 1 Cinderella I v. iFairyGold Bend Or .H J Dame Masham 1 "Rock Sand J Sainfoin p g J v. Mileage... , Roquebrune fc S I Lady Madge . . Rayon dOr h - I Lady Margaret 2 J Bachelors Double S Trcdennis M Lady Bawri C A I jh E? I Fragrant Spearmint B J . 7 First Over J2 w I f Marco S Barcaldine LElland , Novitiate o Ulirficld : Wakefield jjJ - i Santa Nomis "I W f TheTetrarch...... j Roi Herode i f Tetratema "l -Cn - LScotchGift Symington L g J - Maund Hl . fLemberg Cyllene or L False Piety...... ....- Galicia .,. . 1st. Begoe St. Frusquin I Alicia . "fOr Rosebery. .
