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HIGH STRUNG IS STANDING AT HIGH HOPE STOCK FARM FARMDouble Double Futurity Winner Given Chance to Prove Worth in Stud StudLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 20 High Hope Stock Farm the home of High Strung which won the 1928 Belmont Futurity is the former home of Sweep At that time it was known as Glen Helen Stud and John S Barbee was the master masterDouglas Douglas M Davis is now the owner of the nursery which comprises 515 acres and is also a breeding place for show horses Davis came into the thoroughbred ranks through luck Ha was in Madison County which borders Fayette the heart of the Blue Grass region in quest of a saddle horse He came back with one and also Tylene a thoroughbred Tylenes first two foals un ¬ der Davis management were sold for al ¬ most 5000 and Davis then began to wonder whether it was worth while handling show horses goingDavis He decided to kfeep both going Davis persuaded R L Gerry to send High Strung to High Hope Farm The High Time stallion raced for Gerry and Marshall Field and until leased to Davis had been mated with polo mares High Strung also won the Pimlico Futurity As his sire High Time was still sending out winners Gerry and Field were not anxious to breed to the double Futurity winner winnerWith With limited opportunities High Strung has done well Mettlesome pacemaker for five of the six furlongs of the Breeders Fu ¬ turity was his best offspring last year Davis prospectsThere reports good juvenile prospects There are fifteen fouracre paddocks at High Hope twelve stud barns and seventy five stalls Before being bought by Barbee whose original place was on the Iron Works Road High Hope was part of old Elmendorf Farm After the death of James B Haggin several parts of the farm were sold and High Hope was one of them themHaggin Haggin had all parts of the farm piped for water with the result that every paddock and pasture has a concrete trough the water coming SpringDavis from the famous Blue Spring Davis a former Californian owned a farm in Bourbon County before purchasing High Hope Farm He believes in the thorough ¬ bred but still maintains an interest in the saddle horse Mountain Peavine is the head of the show horse brigade a jsuperb repre ¬ sentative of the Chester Dare Rex Peavine strain
