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Maryland BALTIMORE, Md., May 6. Two filly foals recently arrived at Arthur Hullcoats West Acres Farm, at Darlington, Md., are a chestnut out of Gleaming and a brown out of Buds Belle. Both were sired by Sir James, who stands at the nursery, and who will again serve the j mares this year. Deil, who stands at Donald P. Ross Brandywine Farm, at Stanton, Del., sired his first get in a bay filly from the mare Ampersande. The six-year-old Deil performed under the silks of the Brandywine Stable as a two-year-old. His career was terminated suddenly after the Christiana Stakes in which he finished second to Eight Thirty. Adolphe Pons, master of Country Life Farm, near Bel Air, Md., reports that the mare, Ginos Alley, bore dead twins by Quatre Bras II. Ginos Alley, a daughter of Gino and the good race mare, Sallys Alley, will be bred to Airflame. The latter is the Ariel horse who was the first stake winner raised at Pons nursery, and who is now making his first season at stud there. To date seven of the foals at William H. LaBoyteauxs Hop Creek Farm, near Holmdel, N. J., are get of Jack High, sire of Andy K., Overdrawn and Jacomar. Alexander A. "Sandy" Baldwin, who has a modest breeding establishment in Dun-dridge Farm, near Boyce, Va., has received compliments on the two 1941 foals at his place. One, a chestnut colt, is by Chance Shot from the Man o War mare, Shell Hole, while the other, a bay filly, is by Double Scotch, out of Better Hole, she by Cavalcade — Shell Hole. Mrs. Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Farm, at Upperville, Va., is doing its bit for National defense in serving as an air-raid post. A spot on a knoll has been selected as a watching point for air-raid wardens, who are on duty twenty-four hours daily. Chesterbrook Farm, near Berwyn, Pa., once the famed breeding institution of A. J. and E. B. Cassatt, and now operated by the latter s widow, Mrs. J. Packard Laird, has only a small band of yearlings. Foals of last year are a colt, by Mountain Elk— Fairy Well, by Olambala; colt, by Mountain Elk — Zee Ballot, by Zeebrugge; filly, by Constitution — Josie Hartman, by Olambala, and a daughter of Constitution — Rock Fairy, by Sea Rock. Frank A. OKeefe, Jr., who stands Blue Pete and Mokatam at his Pine Brook Farm, near Warrenton, Va., will race four homebreds this year. They were recently shipped to Aqueduct, consigned to trainer Mat CoTford, who is training also Phantom Raider, Bo Mint, Pine Pep and Princess Marka. The latter two are juveniles. Pine Pep is a chestnut colt, by Petee-Wrack — Red Queen, and Princess Marka is a bay filly, by Petee-Wrack from the Sir Martin mare, Marka, she the dam of nine foals. A recent arrival at Danny Sheas Merry-land Farm, at Hyde, Md., was a bay filly by Burning Star — Mistify. The latter will be bred to Knickerbocker, the Teddy horse out of the Man o War mare, Warrior Lass, who stands at Adolphe Pons Country Life Farm, not far distant. , I William W. Vaughan, New Jersey, I breeder and turf patron who recently returned from his winter home, Kinchfoone Lodge, at Leesburgh, Va., reports that Neddie will have a full book this year. The son of Colin and grandsire of Alsab stands at Vaughans Oak Glen Farm at Red Bank, N. J. G. Nick Saegmuller, field secretary of the Virginia Horsemens Association, reports that the organization is gaining memberships rapidly and now numbers more than 150 members, many of them prominent in breeding in this Commonwealth. The fledgling association is less than a year old. Con Amore, a fifteen-year-old daughter of High Cloud and the Star Shoot mare, Billet Doux, recently foaled a bay filly by Challenger II., thus a full sister to the Maryland Futurity winner, Challamore, at J. W. Y. Martins Worthington Farm, near Glyndon, Md. Con Amore, one of the many good individuals bred by Audley Farm, was a successful campaigner for Martin, winning twenty-two races during a career highlighted by a few stake victories. The mare will be bred back to Challenger II. Daniel C. Sands, prominent in hunt racing circles and master of Benton Farm, near Middleburg, Va., recently transferred the stallion Playfellow from his nursery to the old Tranquility place at Purcellville, now operated by Sam Graham. Playfellow is a younger brother of Man o War. Howard Bruce, who bred Jay Jay at his Belmont Farm, near Elkridge, Md., reports that the mare Cherokee Sal foaled a brown colt, by Challenger II. The mare will be bred to Okapi. Jay Jay is the best product of the nursery so far. During six years campaigning, up to the end of 1941, the son of Wise Counsellor— Dry Girl, by Messenger, won 4,185. A recent foal at Victor P. Noyes farm, near Bel Air, Md., is a bay colt by Mint Briar, from Sparkle Star. The latter, the get of Star Spangled — Star of Runnymede, will be bred to Bud Lerner. A recent Maryland -bred foal is a bay filly, by Rehoboth — Wild Woman, at Hugo R. Hoffmans Thornton Farm, in Baltimore County, township of Riderwood. The mare will be mated with Kahuna, an imported son of Blenheim II. — Solferema, standing at Janon Fisher, Jr.s The Caves, at Eccleston. Ray Alan Van Clief, "Old Dominion" I bleeder and master of Nydrie Stud, at Ksmont, recently purchased the historic estate Tallwood, which adjoins his nursery. Tall wood, known far and wide for its yew trees, more than two hundred years old, is steeped in the tradition of this state. Originally it was part of Enniscorthy, established about 1769 by John Coles II., of Hanover County. Charley O., who stands at David N. Rusts Rockridge Farm, Leesburg, Va., is of particular interest, as he is a stake winner, by a stake winner, out of a stake winner and a brother of the stake winner and great performer, Mike Hall. Charley O. is a twelve-year-old son of Hourless, from the Catmint mare Clonakilty.
