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l I | I | j I I I ! i Forty-Four Broodmares Now at Sagamore Farm Spare Change, Fresh Start and Petrify Join Matron Band GLYNDON. Md., April 13.— Three more mares, Petrify, Spare Change and Fresh Start, have been added to the broodmare ranks, making a total of 44 matrons now in service at Lt. j.g. Alfred Gwynne Vander-milts nearby Sagamore Farm. It has not yet been fully decided to which stallions .he trio will be mated this season. At the nursery are Discovery; Dauber, sire of the stake-winning Royal Prince from his first crop to race in 1943; Identify, New World and Impound. If he so desires. Van-derbilt could delegate one or all to be bred to Bahram, standing at North Wales, near Warren ton, Va., and in which sire he has a part interest. It will be remembered that Petrify evoked much favorable comment by her excellent performance as a two-year-old in 1941. Amons her victories that year were the Arlington Lassie Stakes and Matron Stakes. Unfortunately, she went wrong late in the season and subsequent efforts. the last of which was attempted last year, to bring iier back were unfruitful. A daughter of Identify, she is from the Rock Man mare. Sag Rock. The other two young matrons. Spare Change and Fresh Start, set no worlds afire in competition. The former is a foal of 1941 and a chestnut by Discovery— The Spare, by John P. Grier. She started but once last year, without success. Fresh Start, a five-year-old, also is a chestnut daughter of Discovery and out of the Sweep On mare, Sweep Out. As a three-year-old she had her best season, winning four starts and more than ,000.
