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RANCHO LOS LAURELES VERITABLE DREAM PLACE Mrs Vanderbilt Phelps Displays Intense Interest in Her Nursery Yearned to Acquire Farm When Young Girl Cynic Is Holding Court There ThereINGLEWOOD INGLEWOOD Calif June 14 In the charming Carmel Valley near the famous re ¬ sort town Monterey is the pictucs ue and efficiently planned Rancho Los Laurclcs owned and operated by Mrs Vanderbilt Phelps where rtands the sire Cynic son of Captain Cuttle and the Buchan mare SceptU cal Rancho Los Laurclcs does not compare in point of acreage with some of Californias vast establishments but it possesses a cer ¬ tain something thst makes it the ideal breed ¬ ing farm farmThat That Mrs Vanderbilt Phelps is in love with her thoroughLred nursery is no secret For ¬ merly known as the Del Monte Dude Ranch the present owner used to visit the ranch on her vacations as a very young girl Forming an attachment for the place she dreamed of some day owning such a ranch and raising horses thereon It was a dream that was to be fulfilled fulfilledWith With large rich pastures a modern barn of the finest construction a beautiful stud barn a mares barn and foaling boxes the entire layout is the result of careful plan ¬ ning tlat makes it almost i convenient as a modern kitchen Atop a high hill is an oier new building where Mrs Phelps main ¬ tains a Red Cross organization She and oLher women of the district gather daily to irake bandages and otherwise assist in hu ¬ manitarian undertakings undertakingsAmong Among the m iw favorites at Los Luareles is a mare named Mint de Mie a prepossess irg matron with a filly by Bostonian beside her Mint de Mie this year visited the court of Cynic CynicARRIVALS ARRIVALS AT FARM FARMOther Other arrivals at Rancho Los Laureles is a chestnut filly by Vain Bachelor Laureles Moon by Wildair and a filly by Count Arthur from the Aspinwall mare Miss Bil lie Nedrob Whitneybred mare has a filly by Crunt Arthur Bright Eagle daughter of the imported Eaple Head delivered a colt by Cynic Bon Eva has a Naishapur colt coltAll All those mares and another Just Be ¬ lieve by Campfire were this year mated with Cynic a big well balanced individual standing sixteen and onehalf hands and weighing more than 1300 pounds Never having had much of an opportunity be begat six winners among his first nine foals in ¬ cluding Merry Maker winner of the San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita AnitaMrs Mrs Phelps has purchased the brood mare Sceptical dam of Cynic and her daughter Nourishment by the English sire Manna Sceptical an imported mare by Buchan Cledagh by Tredennis has a new foal by her side by Flares stake winner in England including the Newmarket Stakes and the Ascot Gold Cup She has been this year bred to Supremus Nourishment daugh ¬ ter of Marina and Sceptical is also in foal to Supremus Manna her sire was the win ¬ ner of the Two Thousand Guineas and the Epsom Derby in 1925 Both mares and the foal by Flares will leave for the lovely Ran ¬ cho Los Laureles around the middle of July MARE HAS PASTURE TO HERSELF HERSELFIn In a pasture of their very own was the brood mare High Go with her yearling filly by Eagle Head named High Beam With a beautiful silken mane and a friendly dis ¬ position High Beam shows a tendency to run She will probably make her debut at the next Santa Anita meeting Eagle Head was by Eagle Hawk from Which Wairy by Fair King and was foaled in England EnglandIn In the stables at Hollywood Park are five youngsters that run under the colors of Mrs Vanderbilt Phelps They are LittleTipsy by Jamestown Liberty Bar by Bargello White Cynic by Cynic a filly that is as black as the proverbial ace of spades Unbeliever by Diavolo and a giant colt by Solicl de Midi John W Marchbanks promising new stud named Sun Child The horses are under the supervision of Willard McClain Jr and the nnch is under the guidance of the young and progressive F Whitney
