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t . 5 3 s I s e e Romance of Turf And in Real Life Marrying "Irish Jimmy" Stewart, Caroline Reynolds Regains Love for Horses ELKTON, Md., May 23. Just outside this "marryingest" town in the country is Romney Royal Farm, where Mrs. James V. Stewart breeds and prepares for racing the horses that are later campaigned by her husband Irish Jimmy Stewart. Thoroughbred propagation has not long been carried on here, but the horses that have come forth were winners, to the great satisfaction of their feminine owner-breeder, who has been around horses all her life. Association with them began in childhood and was "continued through the following years, at one time with hunters then show horses. In connection with the latter type, Mrs. Stewart, the former Caroline Reynolds, was well known in eastern show rings, as well as at various hunt meetings in the East when she entered that phase of thoroughbred sport. The last horse Mrs. Stewart raced at the hunt meetings was a mare named Lillian C, that she bred. The mare broke her neck in competition, following which her owner-breeder sold all her stock and decided not to have anything further to do with horses. Fate decreed otherwise. Shortly thereafter Irish Jimmy hove upon the scene and the ensuing marriage brought her right back into thoroughbred circles. Dam of Sir Echo, First Foal The first brood mare at Romney Royal since Caroline Reynolds became Mrs. Stewart was Singing Heart, a mare raced by her husband. Now 12 years old, Singing Heart is the dam of Sir Echo, initial produce of the nursery, and a good looking yearling colt by Bright Knight. The mare was bred this year to Happy Argo. A daughter of Strolling Player, and bred by B. B. Jones, Singing Heart is from the good Sir Barton mare Heart o Gold. The latter, dam of four winners including Wise Player, is a member of the family of Rose-drop, Gainsborough, Teddy and other prominent ones. Mrs. Stewart, as well as her husband, has a particular affection for Singing Heart. As a two-year-old, he took her to Thorncliffe Park, Canada-, and won in short order. The filly won. many other races. In all she accounted for some twenty. Only Two in Current Crop This years foal crop at Romney Royal is small, consisting of a chestnut filly by Strolling Player Sallandry and a bay filly by Caid Apron Strings. The latter mare is a five-year-old daughter of Apprehen-e sion Mammys Girl, by Pharamond H., and was this year bred to Strolling Player, as was Sallandry. That nine-year-old get of The Porter is from the Rabelais mare On Guard and was a good winner during her career at the races. She is represented this season by a well proportioned two-year-old colt by Wise Counsellor. Sallandrys juvenile is a tfibute to Mrs. Stewarts care in supervising the young j horses progress at the farm. That she derives great pleasure from being con-e stantly around the thoroughbred is best as ,s shown in the fact that she "came back" i, to ride horses following a fell from a d rogue that left her without the use of her legs, and as the attending physicians e stated, "a cripple for life." Determination e won out through dint of hard work and I. the will to succeed. First she took a few sr steps with the aid of a chair, then two n crutches and later a cane and, finally in n after 18 months she rode to town to the is home of the doctor, who feared she would i- never be in the saddle again.
