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Farm With True Southern Atmosphere Treemont Nursery Built to Pattern Log Structures at Tennessee Stud Hlecla Has Court of Six Brood Mares There NASHVILLE, -Tenn., May 23 If you fancy a quaint southern atmosphere about .a breeding establishment, come here and visit Treemont Farm. It is the last word in southern appointments and from it have come several fleet racers. Treemont Farm, nestled in a wooded section about seven miles from here, was built by its owners, Ed Potter and John Greener. Construction was quite a job. "When we bought the property," explains Potter, "it was a forest, very dense." It took a crew of workmen several months to clear the 140 acres. Potter and Greener, southerns to the core, wanted Treemont Farm to bristle with southern atmosphere. They traveled many miles purchasing log cabins and rail fences for material for buildings and fences. The logs had been hand hewed by slaves many years ago. The rails had been split by hand also. With the logs were built a stallion barn, , a yearling barn, and two brood mare barns, i The rails were used for a fence encircling the farm and for fencing paddocks and fields. "Were not through building yet," adds 1 Greener. Partners Race Homebred Stock Ed Potter is president of the Commerce Union Bank here. All his life he has loved horseback riding, "riding to the hounds," etc. Several years ago he gave away to a passion to breed thoroughbreds. John Greener, with a big-line insurance com- pany, inherits his love for a thoroughbred from his father, John G. Greener, who bred and raced a quarter of a century ago such noted thoroughbreds as Olambala, Oiseau, Countless, Oliphiant and Cosmic. Greener is an authority on American pedigree. Treemont Farm products are not marketed as yearlings. They are placed in training as juveniles and raced, and gradually they are either sold or claimed. The. only stallion at the picturesque nursery is Hecla. Bred at Lexington by Joseph E. Widener, Hecla is a gray son of Stefan the Great j Look Up, by Ultimus, and thus half broth- ,er to the stakes winners Chanceview and Buckup dam of Roman. The second dam of Hecla is Sweeping Glance, the Sweep mare who produced Sweeping Light, a successful sire. Hecla won seven races. Transmits Speed to Offspring As a sire Hecla has shown unusual promise, siring mostly speed. When Potter and Greener bought Hecla from John Shepley, they also acquired from him several brood mares and a weanling colt by Hecla Greedy Girl. The youngster developed into the winner known as Clarksville. He showed stake caliber as a juvenile. Last year Potter and Greener uncovered another fast two-year-old by Hecla in Treemontier. This year they have in training three other Hecla juveniles, Treemon-tian, a filly out of Torrid Zone; Treemon-tania, a filly out of Tonow, and Treetarc, a colt out of Sweeping Grass. The brood-mares at Treemont Farm are as follows: Sweeping Grass, brown 1930, by Sweep Valley Grass, by Short Grass. Booked to Hecla. Torrid Zone, chestnut 1930, by Chance Play Rhea, by Uncle. Booked to Hecla. My Pet, black 1924, by Sir Barton or St. Henry Futurist, by Golden Maxim. Booked to Hecla. Permant, bay 1930, by Spanish Prince n. Lamplight, by Hanbridge. Booked to Hecla. Greedy Girl, bay 1926", by Vulcain- Grasp, by Ultimus. Booked to Isolater. La Grass, bay C1939, by Hecla Sweeping Grass, by Sweep. Booked to Heather Broom.
