Foal Of Royal Blood Welcomed At Valdina: New Arrival Is Colt by Hyperion, Out of Sea Gem--Mare Recently Purchased in England for 0,000, Daily Racing Form, 1941-06-30

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FOAL OF ROYAL BLOOD WELCOMED AT VALDINA VALDINANew New Arrival Is Colt by Hyperion Out of Sea Gem Mare Recently Purchased in England for10000 for10000HONDO HONDO Texas June 28 A foal which must be rated as one of the most valuable of this countrys 1941 crop arrived at Valdina Farm in May It is a colt by the English stallion Hyperion out of the prized young brood mare Sea Gem daughter of Beresford Black Gem by Black Jester which was recently imported by Emerson F Woodward at a price said to be more than 10000 The colt is a halfbrother to Long Voyage promising juvenile which imported by Arthur B Hancock Kentucky breeder was sold at Saratoga Springs last August for 9200 9200Hyperion Hyperion champion threeyearold of Eng ¬ land in 1933 when he was unbeaten and won the Derby St Legei and other important stakes has been a phenomenally successful stallion in his few seasons at stud His twoyearolds were top money winners on the English turf in 1939 and he was second on the list of leading sires His first foals were twoyearolds in 1938 and from his first two crops came Godiva One Thousand Guineas and Oaks Heliopolis Chester Vase Prince of Wales Princess of Wales and other stakes Stardust National Breeders Produce Guernsey Stud Produce Hypnotist King Edward VII Stakes March Stakes Hippius Mersey Ham Stakes and many others othersSea Sea Gem a stake winner is a halfsister to the stake winners Bugler unbeaten at two and a successful sire Tourmaline Ben Tinto Black Fridgo Precious Gem and several other winners Her dam Black Gem was a sister to Black Ray which produced Jacopo Foray Eclair Black Domino and several other good racers racersFUTURE FUTURE WINNING TEXASBRED TEXASBREDFuture Future Winning speedy son of Blue Blit zen Special Favor by Ladkin which has won six of his nine starts this season and is champion sprinter of the Fairmount Park meeting is a Texasbred His owner A H Sumerlin maintains a small thoroughbred nursery near Rotan Blue Blitzen stands at the Double D Stock Farm of Dizzy Dean near Brownwood BrownwoodCroon Croon sterling sprint mare which won thirtyone races recently dropped a good looking filly foal by Sickle at W C Stroubes Melody Meadows nursery near Corsicana Croon was one of the most popular thoroughbreds ever to race in Texas Court Song a halfsister to Croon also dropped a filly foal by Jamestown JamestownSt St Brideaux son of St Germans Pan ¬ ache by Broomstick which was leased by Edward Haughton for the 1941 breeding season has been returned to Greentree Farm in Kentucky St Brideaux was bred to a number of mares this Spring SpringDeath Death of the filly foal by Pherozshah Salvation by Sandwich was reported by Valdina Farm The filly imported in utero died of colic The mare Salvation js one of the recent Woodward importations importationsSheriff Sheriff Tom Wade one of Texas best known peace officers and a thoroughbred breeder is selling all his stock privately Lew Jenkins lightweight boxing champion and football stars Sammy Baugh and Bull ¬ dog Turner purchased some of Wades mares The athletes are recent recruits to thoroughbred breeding


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