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Mars Colors to Be Seen In Juvenile Competition Four in Training at Louisville ■ With Other Additions Expected LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 4.— Decision of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, River Forest, 111., patron, not to replenish her Milky Way Farm stable through the purchase of yearlings and to continue this policy for the wars duration will not have the effect of keeping her popular silks out of juvenile competition. As a matter of fact, no less than four of the six horses Roy Waldron is training for her at the local Churchill Downs course are just two years old and other young blue-bloods to stock the stable are on the way. As suggested, the four advancing through elementary lessons at the Derby track were bred by their owner, whose four mares, now at Horace Davis farm, have foals at side. Although their preparation is not far advanced, the four Milky Way two-year-olds have impressed Waldron and he believes that all are good prospects. They are Western Front, a chestnut colt by Soon Over and Royal Edict; Febridge, a son of Mountain Ridge and February; Tigrell, a daughter of Tiger and Well Rewarded, and a gray filly by Mahmoud and Forever Yours, for whom the name Mahmoudess has been approved. Besides the quartet of beginners, Waldron , is training the three-year-olds Your Reward, a winner of two races last year, : and Gallacene. The latter, a bay son of Sir Gallahad in. and Tableau, has not been tested under colors. The Mars mares at Davis place are Forever j Yours, February. My Choice and | Topsy. Forever Yours has a suckling ; daughter by Mrs. Mars Kentucky Derby winner, Gallahadion; February, a filly by Mountain Ridge; My Choice, a gray son sired by Mountain Ridge, while Topsy is | nursing a filly by Mountain Ridge. All have been bred to Gallahadion. Two yearling colts, both regarded as exceptional possibilities, will join the training string next year. They are a full brother to Your Reward and a son of ■ Mountain Ridge and Topsy. Your Reward and his younger brother are the offspring of Reaping Reward, who won a Latonia Derby under the Milky Way colors, and I Forever Yours, one of the outstanding young mares of her time. Waldron starts the 1944 campaign with 1 the smallest stable his employer has raced in many years. Last year he prepared a 1 much larger string, but disposed of all but Your Reward and Gallacene. Included J among those he developed and sold in 1943 was Black Badge, recognized as one of the fastest of the seasons two-year-olds.
