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DOUGLAS DAVIS Master of High Hope Farm in Lexington, Ky., where High Strung, High Quest and Halcyon Gift hold court. Colts in Majority Among Boojum Get Shy-Breeding Stallion Sires Only Four Fillies During Nine-Year Stud Career LEXINGTON, Ky., May 16. The 1942 crop of Boojum numbers three foals. The only three brood mares who conceived to him last year produced colts. The three matrons are owned by the C. V. Whitney farm. The highly regarded mare, Tei.ez, has a bay colt by Boojum. A daughter of Friar Rock Some More, by Polymelian, the brown mare already is the dam of several winners, best of whom is the stake winner Handcuff, who won six races and 4,335. The other- two matrons are Judea and Aporoma. Judea, a gray daughter of Roi Herodc. has a brown colt, while Aporoma, by Hurry On, foaled a bay. Both Judea and Aproma were imported from England. Shortly after producing her Boojum foal, Judea died. The youngster was placed immediately with a foster mother, with whom his progress in growth has been entirely satisfactory. No one at the Whitney nursery can explain it, but almost all of the foals of the shy-breeding Boojum are colts. Since the bay horse entered the stud in 1933 he has sired only four fillies. Two are yearlings. The other two are the stake winner, Jub .Jub, and the winner Slave Charm. Every Boojum Foal Wins Every Boojum foal of racing age has been a winner with the exception of two who did not race. In the first crop of foals by Boojum was the fast: Snark, winner of the Great American Stakes and Queens County, Metropolitan, Paumonok and Suburban handicaps. Snark is now at stud at Paris, Ky. Probably the best son of Boojum was the ill-fated Thingumabob. The bay colt won his first start. His second start was a brilliant victory in the rich Arlington Futurity, but in his third start, the Sanford Stakes at Saratoga Springs, he" suffered a broken leg in a "fall and was destroyed. Boojum won the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Springs in 1929 in American record time of 1:17 for six and one-half furlongs. The mark is still the track record at the Spa. In 1937 Snark set the worlds record for the same distance, 1:15, at Hialeah Park.
