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FORMER MANAGER NOW OWNS TRANQUILITY FARM Graham Buys Virginia Nursery From Estate of Harry H Cross v Place Is Well Equipped for Breeding Purposes Plan Expansion ExpansionPURCELLVILLE PURCELLVILLE Va June 14 About three miles west of the little town of Pur ccllville in the famed Loudoun County well known for its hunt meetings and thorough ¬ bred breeding Sam Graham is continuing activities at Tranquility Farm FarmDuring During the years that the late Henry H Cross operated Tranquility that establish ¬ ment was known as a breeding center and for its racing stable The blue and orange colors were successfully flaunted at courses throughout the country and thoroughbred representatives of Cross distinguished themselves by numerous stake triumphs Possibly the best horse bred at Tranquility was Capt Cal That homebred son of Car laris Lady Capulet was highly rated among the threeyearolds of 1936 and was consid ¬ ered an early threat in the Kentucky Derby that year yearWith With a prominent position among Virginia breeding farms ancl ideally located in a roll ¬ ing country boasting limestone qualities blue grass shade trees and a running stream besides other necessary requisites for a thoroughbred nursery Graham decided to purchase Tranquility with the settling of the Henry H Cross estate estateGraham Graham is well equipped for the task of operating Tranquility It has been home to him for more than ten years During that span of time he managed the place for Cross He got to know bloodlines stallions the care of foals and a thousand and one other worries and cares of directing a breeding farm farmAs As manager of Tranquility Grahams one desire was to own that nursery Now it is his Although at present the stallions are only Dartle and Teddy Patic and there are but seven matrons making their home at the nursery Graham intends later to increase his forces forcesMAJORITY MAJORITY OF FOALS BY DARTLE DARTLEThe The majority of foals now at Tranquility are by Dartle Sired by that tenyearold son of Dodge On Time are a colt foal out of Happy Knot colt out of Second Heaven colt out of Bit by Bit and two fillies out of Distort and Sickle Lass The latter foals are the property of H Guy Bedwell BedwellGrahams Grahams foals are two fillies One of these is a daughter of Time Maker Fama by War Fame while the other is by St Henry Bright Nightie by Bright Knight Another foal at the Purcellville farm is a colt owned by Mrs David A Buckley The youngster is by Mrs Buckleys stallion Grand Time out of the mare Rose Goes by imported He Goes GoesIn In addition to conducting a breeding farm Graham uses the stabling accommodations for boarding outside horses With sixty large box stalls and partitioned paddocks Tran ¬ quility affords ample facilities facilitiesFurther Further activities at the nursery entail mating with Teddy Patic the mares Happy Knot Second Heaven Distort Sickle Lass and Bit by Bit Also scheduled to bebred to the young stallion son of Teddy Sim patica the latter a Friar Rock mare is Pharabelle a halfsister to Robert E Lee LeeAlthough Although starting on a modest scale Gra ¬ ham expects one day to place Tranquility among the foremost Virginia breeding es ¬ tablishments
