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JBBtiffiii, * * JUDGES STAND by charles hatton LEXINGTON, Ky., May 17.— It is much too early to discuss the two-year-olds at all intelligently, but it is cjear that Mrs. Grahams colt, Royal Blood, is one who may have a future. It would be nice if he proved a bargain, even at the 0,000 paid for him last summer, and it seems prob able that Mrs. Graham might sell him at a tidy profit now if she liked. Not to make too sharp a point of it, but some of the most expensive yearlings have been among the most depressing performers. We think that up to now Jet Pilot is the first horse who brought as much as 0,000 at the yearling sales in this country and won himself out in his first season. Royal Blood doesnt seem to mind the precedent any more than Jet Pilot does, and if he never wins again this upstart has made a bargain of his dam, Spotted Beauty. If money serves correctly, Dale Shaffer bought Spotted Beauty from the Keeneland Stud for about 0,000. This transaction may strike you as rather curious, in view of the fact that he much prefers stakes mares, and Spotted Beauty never even ran, but then she is a sister to the Selima winner, War Beauty. Shaffer always has been fond of the mare, who is an extremely large gray of somewhat the same spectacular shade as her sister, and he says that she reminds him of something by Wagner. She produces big foals, and Charley Kenney now is grooming her Bull Dog colt for the sales here this summer. Not long ago she foaled a bay colt by Heliopolis, and it seems almost needless to say that she will be bred to Royal Bloods sire, Coldstream, again this spring. AAA It may interest you that Bob Klebergs clever filly, But Why Not, has an own sister among the foals at Jock Whitneys place here, and the mare has been bred to War Admiral. The reason that the Texan chose to breed Royal Bloods Kin at Coldstream Stud But Why Nots Sister in Kleberg Crop Blue Grass Points for Chicago Stakes Claiborne Will Offer Count Fleet Filly her to the Riddle horse is perfectly obvious and perfectly good, for the Admiral got Busher from this family. By the way, the theory that Busher cannot possibly race again is not going very well at the moment. One of our most reliable spies tells us that she now has progressed to the point that she has worked six furlongs in 1:14. From here we cant guess why. But Why Not is a big mare who showed a nice turn of speed in the Pimlico Oaks and in the Acorn. Tomorrows C. C. A. Oaks of a mile and three furlongs is a bit different in that it is a test of genuine stamina. AAA "Bull" Hancock was at Claiborne over the week-end and he tells us that he is naming Blue Grass for the filly-and-mare races at Arlington and Washington this summer. He thinks the Kentucky Oaks winner is rather a nice prospect for the stud, and she is by Blue Larkspur out of Camelot, by Sir Gallahad III. Her third dam was Golden Corn, who was quite the best filly of her year in England. "We didnt have Golden Corn over here long," Hancock recalled, "but she was an awfully nice mare to handle and I liked her very much." He reports a couple of interesting new foals at the Bourbon County farm, one a bay filly by Apache, from Esposa, and the other a colt by Hypnotist out of Vagrancy. The yearlings are shaping up nicely for the sales, and Hancock says that the colt by Whirlaway, from Black Wave, is muscled up very like Jet Pilot at the same age. Then she is a bright chestnut with a generous blaze and a good deal of white about the legs. Since her sire and dam are bays and have scarcely any marks, there is a lot of conjecture about the ancestor who is responsible for all this gay color. We have heard old-timers criticize white legs and feet, with perhaps a few mental reservations that they might remember Hanover, Proctor Knott and Salvator a little better. Count Fleet is not a proven sire, but he is one in which the Hancocks have much confidence, and we shall really be surprised if this filly is not one of the brighter stars on Hancock night. AAA Risk has foaled about 75,000 worth of sales yearlings, and they have won more than that sum. Barren this spring, she has been bred to Menow. Mention of Count Fleet above reminds us to say that John Hertz has shared seasons to the horse with some of the "small breeders," and we have a note from Jack Denis in which he says that his mare, Top Band, has foaled a nice colt by the V Crown winner at his Tennessee stud. Denis is the head of Tennessees Thoroughbred Club and he is one of the owners of Boy Knight, to whom he is sending Top Band this season. AAA Turfiana: Stir Up has joined the pensioners, Cherry Jam, Jolly Roger and Easter Hero at the Greentree Farm, where all the Jock Whitney horses go if they are good. . . . The aging Sir Gallahad III. had a dozen mates this stud season. . . . The manager of a large-scale farm had some notion of selling eight mares and parlaying them into Busher, but has not been much encouraged. . . . Veterans at the foaling barn are quite taken with Bob Klebergs new brother to Stymie. . . . Their dam, Stop Watch, has inherited the black-coat color of hef grandsire, Colin. But her owner wouldnt mind too much if she were chestnut, the color of her other grandsire, Man o War.
