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Hal 9- JUDGES STAND by charles hatton LEXINGTON, Ky., May 10.— You remember that it was duly reported a few columns back that Polynesian is to begin his stud career at Elmen-dorf next spring. Pete Widener told us at lunch yesterday that "Polys" book for 1947 already is filled, and Glen Tomlinson mentions one of the terms that intrigues us, and should help to assure the horse a fair chance. As we understand it, only mares from stakes-winning families shall be considered acceptable, and this is not construed to mean stakes winners three or four generations back. It is all very well for people to sit around and make cynical remarks about mares of good breeding as producers, but this shows you the sort that breeders prefer when a young horse has a reputation to make at stud. Polynesian strikes us as a particularly nice prospect. Of course, you know that he is an extremely fast and game horse, who has won the Preakness, Withers and Roseben, and carried 130 pounds six furlongs in 1:10% at Monmouth Park last summer. He is an orphan with quite a story-book career and even schooled through the field, fantastic as it may seem now that he has earned about 50,000 on the flat. These things give him a bit of color, although they arent going to influence his stud career nearly so much as the fact that he is a grandson of Sickle and the brilliant mare, Black Maria, who won a Kentucky Oaks from end to end racing through a cloudburst. Dale Shaffer, Alfred Vanderbilt, Mrs. Sloane, John Hertz, Dr. Asbury, Deering Howe and John Galbreath are among the breeders who have booked mares to Poly for his first season at stud. AAA We cant guess if Warren Wright attaches the slightest importance to it really, but his colt Faultless is in-r bred to Teddy and Plucky Liege, which is a little bit unusual. Faultless is by Bull Lea, by Bull Dog out of Polynesians First Book Already Filled Faultless Inbred to Teddy, Plucky Liege Rodney, Va.t Sire From Jet Pilots Family Name Phalanx for 3-Year-Old Route Tests Unerring, by Insco, by Sir Gallahad HI. We suppose you know that Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad m. are own brothers by Teddy out of Plucky Liege. This may get Faultless in wrong with those who take a dim view of inbreeding, but we might say that he doesnt seem to mind at all. By the way, Ben Jones thinks that horses "are being bred up more and improving a little all the time," and he believes that the records will bear him out. AAA Brownell Combs is among the many breeders who are gratified by Jet Pilots form this spring. He bred the two-year-olds colt, Riot, who is by Whirlaway out of Miss Dogwood, an Oaks winner from the Myrtlewood branch of the Frizette family. And we should think that the Hancocks and Van Cliefs will be pleased that they have a colt by Whirlaway out of Jet Pilots dam to offer at Keeneland this summer. "Bull" Hancock tells us that he bought a share in the brother to Jet Pilot sold last year largely because he felt that colt has potentialities as a sire, even though fillies had scored the most conspicuous successes of the family here. Combs was much impressed by the Frizettes that he saw race abroad, and we think that he was the first American breeder to make much point of developing the family on this side of the Atlantic. He bought old Frizeur from the late J. E. Madden for about ,000, as we recall, kept Myrtlewood and her good fillies, and sold the colts, up until Miss Dogwood foaled Riot. It may even be that Jet Pilot will attract Virginia breeders attention to the OSullivan Farms young sire, Rodney, who is Frizeurs last foal and won a few races for Mrs. Graham. AAA Phalanx is not to be raced against older horses this season, but he is in the Classic, American Derby. Realization and, in short, "everything" for three-y tar-olds. Races like the Belmont and Realization seem especially suited to horses of his kind. While he is bred to stay and can, apparently, he has escaped one possibility in his pedigree. You know that his sire, Pilate, had a wind affliction, and that his dams half-brother, Johnstown, was said to have "made a noise," but there does not appear to be anything wrong with Phalanx own breathing apparatus. His breeder, Abe Hewitt, now intends to race his yearling half-brother by Some Chance in his own colors. And it may be that he will return the Irish horse, Rustom Sirdar, to training after the stud season, for this ones tendon does not now show any suggestion of giving trouble. Hewitt is delighted with the foals by Maxim, who is said to have tried better than Pukka Gin, and this potent son of Boojum gives them a great deal of size and bone. AAA Turfiana: John H. Clark now is a benedict. His bride was Mabe Lovens, of The Blood-Horse staff. . . . John Hertz will have a yearling colt by Blenheim II. from La Reigh to sell this summer. . . . Miss Ella Widener plans to race durable old Iron Shot through the field again this year, and he is to be pensioned at Elmendorf when he is retired. . . . Miss Widener hunts with White Marsh, Middleburg and Iroquois, but Iron Shot doesnt care for that sport. . . . Not much is made of hunting about Lexington, and yet Iroquois is one of the three oldest clubs in America. ... It turns out that Fescue 31 Is not the Whitney farms secret weapon at the racing wars, if you want to insist it has one. It does have ladeno and blue grass in luxuriant abundance. One farmer drove 90 miles just to see it.
