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Jack Keene Loses Prized Matron in Silver Beauty Dam of War Beauty Dies After Foaling Gray Filly by Mahmoud LEXINGTON, Ky., May 2. — Silver Beauty, by Stefan the Great— Jeanne IBowdre, died shortly after foaling a gray filly by Mahmoud. J. O. Jack Keene, owner of the successful brood mare, stated he believed she died of an internal hemorrhage. The gray filly foal is doing satisfactorily with a foster mother. Keene considered Silver Beauty one of his best mares. Bred by the noted breeder, she was a full sister to the stake winner, Jean Valjean, and a half sister of the stakes winners Grand Slam and Jean La-fitte. She died at the age of fourteen. Had she lived she would have been mated this year with Omaha. The first foal of Silver Beauty was the Bull Dog colt, Silver Horde. Injured as a yearling. Silver Horde never raced, but he was regarded so highly by Keene that he was retired to the Keeneland Stud for service in 1940. His oldest foals are now yearlings. War Beauty, the Man o War filly who competed with Now What for the juvenile filly championship of 1939, was the second foal of Silver Beauty. Among her wins, before being retired this year, were the Se-lima Stakes and the Matron Handicap. The third foal is the three-year-old Royal Minstrel filly, Shameen, and the fourth is the juvenile Cohort colt, Silver King. "I have," reported Keene, "three daughters of Silver Beauty left — War Beauty, Shameen and the gray filyy by Mahmoud. They should make good brood mares.*
