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MRS ETHEL V MARS The Milky Way Farm stable of the Chicago sports ¬ woman has ten twoyearolds eligible for the Washington Park Futurity WASHINGTON PARK FUTURITY ELIGIBLES TOTAL 160 Nine of HighestPriced Colts in Last Years Sales Nominated to Fixture Ten Juveniles Named by Milky Way and Valdina Farms Run on Aug 16 16Sixtyfive Sixtyfive of the countrys leading stables have kept 160 of their most promising two yearolds eligible for the 20000 added Wash ¬ ington Park Futurity to be run August 16 it was announced today Final payments of 50 eachvwere made for 128 colts five geld ¬ ings and twentyseven fillies This is a new record for the stake The value to date is 40920 starters to pay 500 each eachThe The Washington Park Futurity was won last year by Charles S Howards Porters Cap who took down 30780 of the 43625 gross purse Original nominations this year numbered 424 as against 345 in 1940 when final payments for 149 youngsters were made madeNine Nine of the highest priced colts in the 1940 yearling sales were among the original nominees and each has been kept eligible These colts their sales ring prices ranging from 10000 to 16000 are areChristiana Christiana Stables imported son of the sensational English sire Hyperion 16000 This colt is yet unnamed unnamedW W E Boeings Pony Express 15000 half brother to the 1938 juvenile champion El Chico ChicoBrookmeade Brookmeade Stables Psychic 12700 half brother to Redlin RedlinFULL FULL BROTHER TO BULL LEA LEAMilky Milky Way Farms Dog Patch 12000 full brother to Bull Lea LeaMillsdale Millsdale Stables Yankee Cousin by Blen ¬ heim II One Hour 12000 half brother to Magic Hour Split Second and Gay Mon ¬ arch archMilky Milky Way Farms Signal Flash 11600 by Pharamond II Helen Drake DrakeJ J H Whitneys Buster 11500 half brother to the stake winning mare Hilena HilenaMrs Mrs E G Lewis Rodney 10000 This colt by Man o Wars son Broadside out of Frizeur is a half brother to Myrtlewood Pairbypair Crowning Glory and Black Curl CurlColdstream Coldstream Stables King Oberon 10000 brother to Top Dog and Prairie Dog Cold stream Stable also is represented by the Flor ¬ ida sensation Albatross winner of the Hia leah Juvenile and Dinner Stakes and Blue Booties brother to Our Boots BootsThe The Milky Way Farm contingent also in ¬ cludes the Ariel colt Black Raider winner of the Santa Barbara LaFayette arid Bash ford Manor Stakes Mrs Ethel V Mars took him out of the Saratoga sales ring last year for 5500 5500Louis Louis B Mayer the motion picture mag ¬ nate has an interesting pair in Family Tree and Thumbs Up The former is the son of the Australian sire Beau Pere recently im ¬ ported by Mr Mayer Thumbs Up was re ¬ garded as one of the best twoyearold pros ¬ pects to appear on the Pacific Coast earlier in the year yearClyde Clyde Van Dusen winner of the Kentucky P by in 1929 now a lead pony in Califor ¬ nia has a halfbrother named Rich Uncle in the quintet which Dixiana has kept eligi ¬ ble bleBIGGEST BIGGEST NOMINATORS NOMINATORSHeading Heading the list this year with the great ¬ est number of eligibles are Milky Way Farm and Valdina Farm with ten each Millsdale Stable has eight E R Bradley and Joseph E Widener seven each Other owners and the number of juveniles each has kept eligi ¬ ble for this important twoyearold fixture are areW W E Boeing and Calumet Farm six each eachColdstream Coldstream Stable and Dixiana five each eachBarrington Barrington Stable Greentree T H and T J Heard and Cleaveland Putnam four each eachA A C Ernst Alex N Gelb King Ranch Mrs E Graham Lewis Alfred G Vander bilt John Hay Whitney WL Ranch three each eachMrs Mrs Ellsworth H Augustus Christiana Stable Norman W Church Hal Price Head ley Louis B Mayer Motor City Stable Penn Villa Farm Thomas Piatt Myron Selznick Shandon Stable W C Stroube Mrs E duPont Weir Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Woolford Farm two cacht F M Alger Arcturus Stable Lawrence Barker A A Barbni Mrs W E Boeing Brookmeade Stable Mrs D A Buckley Mrs Parker Corning John W Galbreath and Stanley M Ross M B Goff John Greener Dick Jacob Fred Koch Irvine Kort Sylvester W Labrot Ethan R Moul ¬ der and R L Oldham H A Parr III Mrs R D Patterson Log Cabin Stud Breckin ridge Long R W Mcllvain Manhasset Sta ¬ ble Anthony Pelleteri and Mrs D W Leroy E E Pershall Mrs Damon Runyon Mrs Albert Sabath Harold A Clark Vasen Laury Jay D Weil Howard Wells Wood vale Farm one dach
