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SIRES DAMS By Nelson Dunstan Keeneland Sales Open July 31 Meadow Brook Yendues August 8 Almahurst Babes Sold in East New Jersey Breeders Offer Many ManyNEW NEW YORK N Y June 14 Both the Breeders Sales Company of Kentucky and the FasigTipton Company of New York have now announced definite dates for the Keene ¬ land and Meadow Brook yearling ven dues respectively The newly organized Ken ¬ tucky sales organiza ¬ tion under the man ¬ agement of G B Brownie Leach has mapped out four days of intensive sessions with an afternoon and evening sale from July 31 tnrougn August 3 To date only Cold stream Stud has released its list of offer ¬ ings and they will be completely reported in this column at a later date Coldstream Stud was a Meadow Brook consignor last August but this year will offer its year ¬ lings at Keeneland on Thursday night August 3 The only large Kentucky breed ¬ er to sell in the East this year will be the Almahurst Farm of Henry H Knight This popular farm will sell 17 yearlings in all and on the list are colts and fillies by Sickle Blue Larkspur Rhodes Scholar Menow Stagehand Heliopolis and Reaping Reward From Kentucky comes word that a chestnut colt by Sickle Laughing Queen should be one of the most attractive offer ¬ ings of the 1944 sales salesDue Due to the fact that the Westbury trotting management reserved all stalls at Meadow Brook for a long period the only dates the FasigTip ¬ ton Company could obtain for the eastern sales were August 8 9 and 10 This brings the vendues of the two localities in close proximity but under the circumstances it could not be avoided At the Keeneland sales two of the eight sessions will be given over to the offerings of one breeder the Claiborne and Ellerslie studs of Arthur B Hancock taking all of Tuesday night August 1 The Mereworth Farm of Walter J Sal ¬ mon takes the entire afternoon of Wednesday August 2 Leslie Combs II Kentucky racing commissioner and master of Spendthrift Farm will be the most important consignor of Monday night July 31 following the afternoon sessions in which many breeders including Elmendorf Cal ¬ umet and Pilot Knob Del Holeman will open the sales After a short trip through Virginia this writer will leave for a tour of the Blue Grass establishments which will partici ¬ pate in the Keeneland sales Later we will visit New Jersey and Mary ¬ land farms farmsBesides Besides those from Almahurst Farm many attractively bred yearlings will be of ¬ fered at Meadow Brook W H LaBoyteaux well known New Jersey breeder will con ¬ sign 17 while the Skeeter State establish ¬ ment of F Wallis Armstrong Meadow View will sell 10 From Maryland the Sagamore Farm of Alfred G Vanderbilt will offer a group yet to be selected and W L Brann will sell six the list of which is also yet to come Virginia breeders will be out in force including Nydrie Stud Mor ven Stud North Wales Stud Blue Ridge Farm Mrs George L Harrison Mrs George P Greenhalgh W H Lipscomb Mrs F A OKeefe Mrs W Plunkett Stew ¬ art Kenneth N Gilpin Herbert Phipps and others Some fine yearlings have come out of Virginia and it is natural in scan ¬ ning the lists to turn to that of Nydrie a small establishment where quality has been the hallmark of owner R A VanClief VanCliefIn In Hcloise R A VanClief has one of the best producing mares known to American breeding She is a daughter of Friar Rock Affection by Isidor and has produced such as Tintagel Dinner Date Sgt Byrne Brittany Boy Knight and now Baron Jack for whom Longchamps Farms paid 33000 at Meadow Brook last August In this years group of seven to be sold there is a chestnut filly by Stimulus out of Heloise and while some colts will probably top her price many a breeder will give her close inspec ¬ tion And speaking of fillies J S Phipps will send a bay by Blenheim 11 Festivities into the Meadow Brook ring while among the 12 to be offered by Morven Stud is a bay filly by Sir Gallahad III Marsh mallow by Campfire and a chestnut filly by StimulusrBe Careful by Jim Gaffney One of the Morven colts is certain to attract At Meadow Brook is a bay colt by Flares Bonne Etoile by Wrack WrackIt It is somewhat significant that two of the biggest consignors to the Meadow Brook sales are New Jersey farms Mead ¬ ow View F Wallis Armstrong and the Hop Creek Farms of W H LaBoyteaux Besides one colt by Case Ace Reigning Lass Armstrong will sell nine yearlings by Easton the imported stallion by Dark Legend out of Phaona by Phalaris Easton ran second to Windsor Lad in the Epsom Derby of 1934 Colombo third and second to Colombo in the Two Thousand Guineas Of nine Easton babes seven are colts and one that will attract is the bay out of Alexandria The two Easton fillies are bays one being from Warrior Lass and the other out of Mistress Grier Hop Creek Farms located at Holmdel N J will feature yearlings by its own trio of stallions Jack High Teddy Weed and daruso
