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Hancock, Salmon Offer Largest Consignments Latter to Sell 63 Yearlings and Master of Claiborne-Ellerslie 50 LEXINGTON, Ky., June 29. Arthur B. Hancock, master of Claiborne Stud in Kentucky and Ellerslie Stud in Virginia, and Walter J. Salmon, owner of Mereworth Farm near here, have the largest consignments of yearlings to be offered at the 1944 auctions to be held at Keeneland starting Monday, July 31. Mereworth Farm has catalogued a total of 63 yearling colts and fillies to the sale while a total of 50 will be j offered from the two nurseries operated j by Hancock. It will require one entire -session each to j sell the yearlings of these two breeders. The Claiborne-Ellerslie youngesters will go into the auction: ring on Tuesday night, August 1, while the Mereworth colts and fillies will be sold on the following afternoon. There will be eight sessions of the 1944 sale, one each af ternoon and one each night. The Hancock-bred yearlings are some of the most successful sires in the world, such j as imported Blenheim TJ, sire of Whirl- j away; imported Sir Gallahad UJ, four times leading sire in America and sire of many outstanding race horses Johnstown, Pompey, Stimulus, .imported Rhodes Scholar, Flares and other horses. They also are out of grand producing mares. Mereworth Farms yearlings also are by successful stallions and out of good mares. A number of the Mereworth youngsters are by the imported stallion Bel Aethel, which led all American sires last year in the number of two-year-old winners. Other sires represented in this consignment include Ariel, always an outstanding sire of two-year-old winners; imported Hairan, Bull Lea, sire of the grand fillies Durazna and Twilight Tear; Infinite, imported Phara-mond TJ, imported Sickle, and others. Approximately 420 yearlings are expected to be sold during the four-day auction at; the Lexington track, and buyers from throughout the country are expected to be in attendance. The sales will be conducted by the Breeders Sales Company, which was organized last year by many of the countrys most successful breeders of thoroughbred horses.
