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; ; , l I t : : Fifty-Eight Keeneland Yearlings Have Scored High Percentage From 310 Offered at 1943 Vendues LEXINGTON, Del., June 26. During the first five months, of 1944, 58 of the 310 yearlings sold at Keeneland Race Course last summer had won races. Only 156 of the 310 had started in races prior to June 1 of this year, and the 58 winners represented 37 per cent of the starters. In addition to the winners, 40 other now two-year-olds included ir the 156 had finished second or third in one or more races, making 63 per cent of the starters to win or place in the first five months of their two-year-old season. Thirty-three of the yearlings sold at Keeneland in 1943 had more than won what they cost their owners in the sales ring. More winners had come out of the 1943 yearling consignment of Walter J. Salmons Mereworth Farm than from any other. Ten of the yearlings sold by Mere-worth at Keeneland last year were winners to June 1, including Martha Fly, the outstanding two-year-old of the Mexico City racing season. The consignment of Arthur B. Hancock had produced the second great-; est number of winners to the same date. Both consignors, however, were tied in the percentage of winners to the number of starters from each consignment. Five of 10 starters from the consignment of Thomas Piatts Brookdale Farm and six of the 15 starters from the 1943 consignment of Military Stock Farm had won as two-year-olds to June 1 this year. Every starter from the consignments of Charlton Clay,. Dr. Charles E. Hagyard, Hartland Farmi Dr. George Knapp, Horatio Mason, John Marsch and T. C. Piatt, Lt. Warner L. Jones. Jr., Miss Mildred Woolwine, and R. M. Young had. won to June 1 this season.
