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COUNTRYWIDE BRIEFS FROMBREEDINGFARMS James H Connors chairman of Narragan sett Racing Associations Board of Directors is a comparative newcomer among breeders Although Connors has not a stallion as yet at his Gaeta Irrain Farm at Alton N H he plans to secure a stud at a later date At present he has the brood mares Iota Mary Barton anc Sharp Girl at the nursery nurseryBenjamin Benjamin N Kane who first became inter ¬ ested in racing with the advent of the sport in New England joined the roster of local breeders with his acquisition of Kearsarge which incidentally carried Kanes colors be ¬ fore being retired from active competition The master of Belmar Farm is very enthusi ¬ astic over the first crop of yearlings by the stud son of Man o War and Baton Four fine looking youngsters are being readied at the ScekonkMass nursery Three are colts out 9f the matrons Go Quick Annarita and Victory Miss while the lone filly is a daugh ¬ ter of Blue Donna which raced for Kane as did the other mares Another youngster at the establishment is a brown colt by Grandace and Vanishing Lady Grandace is another New England stallion The imported son of Grand Parade and Trace stands at the Byfield Mass Bola Farm Among foals at Kanes Belmar Farm are a colt and filly by Kearsarge They are put of the mares Go Quick and Carmita CarmitaA A filly foal by Willow Wood out of the Zev mare Zania is doing well at Rodney C Groffs Rosemore Farm at Imlay Mich The stallion son of Lee O Cotner and Sweeping Willow and a fullbrother to Sweet Willow is among the younger sires Dr Harold M Lewis wellknown New England veterinary reports one of the last foals by Duel was a recent arrival at Arthur Hullcoats West Acres Farm at Darlington M The filly foal is out of the mare Jes ¬ sie V L LSweeping Sweeping Willow a daughter of Sweep and the dam of the stakes winner Sweet Willow will be bred back to Lee O Cotner the producing son of Last Coin or High Time which Robert W Collins has at his Elmhurst Farm outside Lexington Ky Col ¬ lins in addition to his extensive breeding activities campaigns a formidable stable of horses Edward Haughton is experiencing success with his newly acquired stallion St Brideaux which previously stood at Green tree Farm Lexington Ky The thirteen yearold stud son of St Germans has served some twenty mares to date at Haughtons Frisco Texas nursery nurseryMiacopo Miacopo is a brood nare which will be closely watched at the Llangollen Farm of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Whitney outside Up perville Va Expectations are high for the wellbred daughter of St Germans and Re ¬ gret which has been mated with Pilate Friar Rock stallion standing at Abram S Hewitts Montana Hall at White Post Va Pilate was Virginias leading sire of money winners during 1940 Hebert H Temple Jr whose mare Tyche is the dam of the winners Snarler and Chuckle announced recent foals at his Dun rovin Farm Lexington Ky are two fillies One is a chestnut by Don Leon and the stakes winner Little Empress and the other is a bay by AthoL and Dissolution J E Miller is considering sending tho mare Flosilda to a prominent New Englan breed ¬ ing establishment for mating A young Wrack mare Flosilda is out of Marshmallow by Campfire The mare Phenomenon by Scotch Broom foaled a bay filly April 19 by Challenger II This foal is a full sister of Challephen and Chathome the property of W L Brann Escalade by Sir Gallahad HI foaled a chestnut colt by Challenger n the same day Major Frank Grosche of Walkersville Md will be prominently represented at the sale of yearlings and horses in training at Pimlico Included in the sale will be Suri patic coming from Danny Sheas Merryland Farm and Will Riber from the estate of the late Charles H Thierot Two Maryland foals of April 17 are a bay filly by War Admiral Betty Derr and a bay filly by Blue Larkspur Audley Girl The latter is the property of the Howe stable while the Betty Derr filly is owned by Louis B Mayer Purchase of the promising young stallion Swahili by Sir Gallahad III Maradadi by Stimulus six brood mares four with foals and two yearlings from Thomas Y Pickett Texas breeder was announced by Kenneth and Clint Murchison Dallas capitalists Tho Murchisons who recently entered thorough ¬ bred breeding by purchasing all of the stock of C Andrade III are rapidly acquiring the best blood obtainable and already have one of the best group of mares in the Lone Star State StateSwahili Swahili will join CogAir brother to the good stallion Sortie at the Murchison farm which is nearing completion At present all stock is quartered at the North Star Stock Farm of C Andrade III
