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JUDGES STAND by charles hatton LEXINGTON, Ky., May 14.— It may amuse you and annoy those who like to cite Black Helen as a kind of horrible example of good race mares as producers, that But Why Not is her granddaughter. The Acorn and Pimlico Oaks winner is out of Be Like Mom, a Sickle mare that the late Colonel Bradley bred from Black Helen. Of course, this is another score for the family of La Troienne, who foaled Black Helen and now has stakes-winning daughters, granddaughters and great granddaughters at the races. Be Like Mom is rather a hopeful name, but we are afraid that she wasnt notably like Black Helen in training. As the story goes, she could run fast enough to encourage Colonel Bradley to wager on her, but then she sulked in her race, and he promptly expelled her from the stable to the stud. There was no place in his handicapping figures for horses that were given to such whims. Of course, Black Helen was herself a filly of the highest integrity, and the same may be said for such of her kin as Busher and Bridal Flower. There is a theory that Black Helen might have done better as a producer at Idle Hour, except that she almost had to be bred to outside sires to avoid close in-breeding. It was rather difficult to get her in foal, so it was a chancy thing to send her to sires that commanded big fees, when there were more prolific mares on the farm for the few outside seasons. AAA Bob Kleberg now owns Be Like Mom, as well as But Why Not. "He used to visit the farm each year," Olin Gentry recalled today. "He liked Be Like Mom even when she was a yearling, but I dont suppose he ever expected to own her." Ogden Phipps now has Black Helen, along with three other daughters of La Troienne, in Big Hurry, Baby League and Businesslike. Gentry is commuting between the Galbreath farms here and in Ohio, by the way. Black Helen Gains Some Note as Producer Gentry Reports 43 Mares at Darby Dan Adorable II. Dam of Many Winners in Va. Knockdown, Lord Boswell Try Comebacks There are 38 mares and the sires, Bless Me and Errard, at Darby Dans "Blue Grass annex," and five mares and Best Seller in the neighboring state. Errard is said to be a very sure young horse and had 34 mates in his first stud season this spring. Galbreath will sell three homebred fillies and five colts at this summers yearling auctions. He has retired the young mares, Darby Delilah and Darby Dunedin, sending the former to Heliopolis and the other to Questionnaire this spring. AAA We expect that many breeders would say 22 is entirely too old for a broodmare, but it seems to depend a great deal on the mares condition. In any case, we have just learned from The Old Dominion that Adorable n., who has spent 19 of her 22 years in production, now has a likeable chestnut filly foal by Pass Out, and has been bred to Jacopo. Perhaps Adorable II. is not quite another Maggie B. B., but she foals an awfully good percentage of winners. She has produced seven colts and eight fillies. Two of her fillies were never raced, but were kept for breeding purposes. Of the 11 others of racing age, all have won except her 1947 two-year-old, who was second at Santa Anita. Adorable II. is by Sardanapale and is owned by Frank OKeefe and his sister, Mrs. Ruth Kob-zina, of the Pine Brook Farm at Warrenton. The most successful of Adorable II.s foals so far are Best Beau, Sunador and Bisby. Sunador won the Governors Day Handicap at Hialeah Park and was retired to the stud, where he has sired several stakes winners. Bisby was placed in stakes and won steeplechases. Sardanapale mares now are almost a vanishing race, but they have done rather well here, and particularly at William Woodwards place. A A A On Trust runs very well, indeed, for a gift horse out of a gift mare, and we suppose that you will hear from him again at Hollywood Park. His sire, Alibhai, has succeeded at the stud even though he has not had the best mares in California. It really ought to be added, in all fairness to Beau Pere, that if he got the best mares, he also got results. This English horse from Australia is to join Bernborough at Spendthrift Farm here next month. It is expected that he will be syndicated by the 48 stud season, and it is likely that each of his owners will have two shares in the stallion for the rest of his life. He is said to be a most potent horse. Twenty-five of the 26 mares bred to him last season are in foal, and his book this season numbered 20. Beau Pere was an indifferent race horse and nothing much came of the two stud seasons he made in England, but he was an immediate success in Australia, where he led the sire list three years. One of his sons, Beaulivre, won 11 straight before another son, Beau Vite, ended the series. AAA Turfiana: Maine Chance Farm hasnt yet missed them very much, but Lord Boswell and Knockdown are turned out here to mend for a come-back. . . . Nicest of the establishments new crop of foals is a colt by War Admiral from Fantine, the dam of Lord Boswell. This newcomer is, of course, a brother to War Fan. . . . Lewis Tutt, who is one of central Kentuckys many small breeders, has bred two 47 stakes winners in Mityme and Picnic Lunch. . . . Rigan McKinney has clipped his initials in his Palomino lead ponys coat with a pair of nail scissors. . . . Howell Jacksons mare, Blue Ensign, by Blue Larkspur, has foaled a filly by Devil Diver at Claiborne.
