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Good Mares Mean Expensive Yearlings Raspberry Plain Farm Matrons Foal Aces for Saratoga Market Youngster Bred by Lipscomb Brought 2,000 at Auction In 1938 Six Foals This Year LEESBURG, Va., May 16. William H. Lipscomb usually gets rather good prices for his yearlings at Saratoga Springs. As a matter of fact, high prices are somewhat of a specialty with the master of Raspberry Plain Farm. One of his youngsters sold for top price of 2,000 at the 1938 Spa vendue. That sum, paid by Brookmeade Stable for a colt by Ksar Duration, later named Romanov, places the Virginia-bred among record priced yearlings. Besides the 2,000 received for Romanov, Lipscomb got 5,000 at the same auction for Cinesar, a colt by Ksar from the Sweep mare Cinema. The colt was acquired by the W-L Ranch. The year before a colt from Cinema, sired by Teddy and titled On Location, brought 6,900 from the Milky Way Farms Stable of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars. Another good sale by the Old Dominion breeder was the 2,700 paid by Mrs. Dodge Sloane in 1940 for Psychic, a colt, by Psychic Bid, from -the High Time mare Ready. Lipscomb receives good prices for his offerings because he has good mares. They . : . are of proved lines. In them flows the blcod of such leading brood mare sires as Light Brigade, Sweep, High Time, Star Shoot, Fair Play, Broomstick and Sir Gallahad in. Those named are noted progenitors of producers. Although Raspberry Plains harem is not large, it is of choice selection. It is better to have a few good mares than many of mediocre quality whom a breeder "hopes" will perform the exceptional in production, but so seldom do. In most instances mediocre or poor mares drop poor produce, merely cull quality. Race Mares Become Brood Mares Among Lipscombs brood mares are a few that he raced. Two are Tedgal and Te-dema. The . latter is a daughter of Teddy Cinema. She was a winner at two in 1937 second to Merry Lassie in the Polly Drumond Stakes and third in the Aberdeen and also won the following year. She won ten races. Her first foal, a colt by Granville, is named Grantedema. This years foal crop at the local nursery numbers six and is as follows: Chestnut filly, by Dr. Freeland Dread-naught. Chestnut colt, by Dr. Freeland Flower Girl. Chestnut colt, by Psychic Bid Tedbriar. Bay colt, by Psychic Bid Cinema. Bay colt, by Psychic Bid Duration. Chestnut colt, by Dunlin Sunny Cloud. The colt from Cinema is an orphan. The Sweep mare died shortly after delivery to Psychic Bid. Cinema was nineteen year old and was from the imported mare Magic Lantern n., by Le Sagittaire. It was intended to mate Cinema again with Psychic Bid this year. Five other mares will be bred to Brookmeades promising sire and four will be united with Okapi, who also stands at Mrs. Sloanes Upper-ville, Va., establishment. Mares going to Psychic Bid are as follows: Booked for Psychic Bid Duration, 1923, by Hourless Broom Flower, by Broomstick. Flower Girl, 1925, by Pennant Broom Flower, by Broomstick. Sunny Cloud, 1925, by High Cloud Sunshade, by Grey Lag. Tedgal, 1934, by Teddy Flower Girl, by Pennant. Tedema, 1935, by Teddy Cinema, by Sweep. Mates for Okapi are: Dreadnaught, 1926, by Man o War Crack o Doom, by Ultimus. Red Glare, 1935, by Diavolo Etar Spangle, by Sunstar. Redlin, 1936, by Dunlin Ready, by High Time. Tedbriar, 1937, by Teddy Sunmelia, by Sun Briar. Although Lipscomb has the stallion Dunlin, that son of Fair Play and the Rock Sand mare Dona F.oca is not used much any more. The o,d fellow is getting on in years. He is now twenty-two. This year he is represented by eight two-year-olds Dunde, Dunlins Night, Overlin, Consomme, Reeves, Playful Star, Dunsan and Lotelad. The latter is a chestnut colt from the High Time mare Ready and thus is a full brother to Redlin, winner of ten races, including the Saratoga Test Stakes. Among other stake winner sired by the Fair Play stallipn are Sand Fiddler, Dunlin Lady, Ilchester, Snap Back, Redshank, Ghost Queen, Dunade and others. Dunlin earned 2,919 for J. S. Cosden, with triumphs in the Hopeful, Grand Union Hotel, Dwyer and Carlton stakes among others. Majority of Mares Young As may be noted at a glance, the majority of Lipscombs mares are young. Only Dreadnaught, Flower Girl, Sunny Cloud and Duration are aged and they are not too old. Mares have foaled outstanding horses late in life. Filante was twenty-one when she delivered Fenelon. Rose Leaves was nineteen when she dropped Bull Lea. Sir Bartons dam, Lady Sterling, was seventeen when she foaled him. Glena, dam of Billy Kelly, was eighteen at the time of his birth. There are countless other examples. Duration is the . oldest of Raspberry Plains producers. Foaled in 1923 and a daughter of Hourless, she is out of Broom Flower. The latter, a stake winner and exceptionally good Broomstick mare as a producer, is the granddam of Chicstraw, Finite and Sovietta and traces to the family of Discovery, Runnymeade, Careful, Domino and Hamburg. Since the death of Cinema, the nineteen-year-old Duration moves into the place of honor at the nursery. And well she might, for she has proved her ability. Among her foals is Tedious,, one of the foursome of stallions . that Alfred G. Vanderbilt has at Sagamore Farm, Maryland.
