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|« ,;: jjjft/- JUDGES STAND by charlbs hatton LEXINGTON, Ky., May 12.— Warren Wright has rather a nice crop of foals at his lovely Calumet again this spring, and we had the pleasure of seeing them this morning. You may remember that Faultless dam, Unerring, doesnt have a foal, but there are brothers to Pot o Luck and Armed, a half-sister to Fervent, and, of course, the colt by Whirlaway, from Twilight Tear. The Wrights didnt consider Whirlatear a very suitable name for the Tears first foal, and they have applied for another. Of course, they have several bales of letters with suggestions for a name, and Tearaway seems to have occurred to almost everyone. We never got around to seeing Twilight Tears foal until today. If it interests you, his conformation suggests his dam somewhat more than his sire, except that he will hardly be as large. Were afraid his hind leg isnt much straighter than the mares, but he compensates for that with extremely muscular gaskins and stifles. If only he has as much heart as either his sire or dam, the Wrights will be very pleased with him. AAA Probably most horsemen would say that Armeds brother is the best of the Calumet foals we have mentioned, and if they didnt know these youngsters breeding, they might think a brown colt by Blenheim n., out of Juliet W., is better still. Then there is a striking red colt by Sun Again, out of Nellie L., a game if unsound little mare whom Ben Jones much admires. She was foaled with a hoof turned in a way it seemed unlikely she could ever walk on it, but she won the Acorn. Sun Agains foals are not the easiest to deliver, by the way, for they almost all have big shoulders. We are reminded that Armeds brother carries a chip on his own shoulder. It is doubtful if he would be gelded with short shrift as Armed was, however. Paul Ebelhardt says that a horse called Neil Gow, who chewed up several grooms, seems Inspecting the 47 Foals at Calumet New Twigs on Frizettes Family Tree Moon Flower Is Latest Myrtlewood Filly Brownell Combs Gives Some Pointers to have introduced a little temper into the Black Brocade family. He recalls that for some unaccountable reason, Jeanne Bowdre would chase Ham Keene from her stall from the time she was a foal. AAA Wright has almost "cornered the market" on the available daughters of Blue Larkspur, and one of these has assumed a certain interest as a result of Jet Pilots form, for she is a three -parts sister to Myrtlewood from the world-famous Frizette family. This is Spur Flower, and she has had only a moderate winner called Forget-menot, but Wright has kept her because of her bloodlines. There are four more or less live branches of the Frizette family tree, two of them in this country. From her daughter, Frizeur, have come Black Curl, Black Wave, Jet Pilot, Myrtlewood, Miss Dogwood, Durazna and Devils Thumb. From Princess Palatine have come Valkyr, Vicar, Vicaress, Vienna, Vagrancy and Hypnotic. Her daughter, Banshee, remained in France, where she won the 1,000 Guineas and became the ancestress of Durban, Diademe, Tourbillon and Basileus. We think that John Hertz imported Frizelle, who was the grandam of the French Derby winner, Gillas, and he now has a young Blue Larkspur mare from her. There is one apparently dead branch here in the produce of Ondulation, but by and large it has less waste than most families. AAA The noted livestock breeder, Brownell Combs, showed Johnny Clark and this tourist the mare, Myrtlewood, and some of her brood at Bel Air here a few days ago. She now has a colt foal by Bull Dog, and the other foals are Durazna s bay colt by War Admiral and Miss Dogwoods gray filly by Mahmoud. They all appear to have the clear definition of legs that is a characteristic of this branch of the family. Durazna is the only one who was ever fired, you know. There is also a two-year-old sister to Miss Dogwood that Combs rather likes, and she will come to the races this summer as Moon Flower. When he gave up the presidency of the NARC not long back, Leslie Combs told us, "I am just going to retire way out in the country with Uncle Brownell and see if we cant grow us some more runners from those mares." He added that the filly by Alsab from his Myrtlewood mare. Crepe Myrtle, is the nimblest yearling at Spendthrift. AAA Of course, this is not the first family that "Uncle Brownell" has developed, for he also founded one from Humanity, the ancestress of Sweetheart, Case Ace, Marching Home, and all that crowd. "It is a matter of setting ones standards as high as possible in the beginning," he thinks. "Just a nice mare isnt good enough." He may resent our saying so, for he dislikes anything that sounds at all boastful, but it is quite true that he bought Humanity from the astute J. E. Madden for 50, then sold 00,000 worth of horses from her, and later got Frizeur from Madden for ,000. If the master of Hamburg Place felt he had been "rooked," he never quite got over it. Many cattle, sheep and horse breeders have sought Combs advice, and college classes study his methods, but there is nothing vain in his nature. He pointed out a paddock fence that was a little the worse for wear during our visit and said that instead of repairing it, he would use the lumber to erect a new paddock where the cattle had been running. Pondering this a moment, he observed, "It is a curious thing that so many people buy old horse farms when they set out to breed horses, instead of looking first for fresh land."
