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"- JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON PARIS, Ky., May 22 If you were impressed by Count Fleet when he breezed off with the "Triple Crown" like a young Pegasus, then you would be quite as taken with his individuality now, and if not then were afraid you must be one of those people who are are awfully awfully hard hard to to please. please. We We saw saw "- are are awfully awfully hard hard to to please. please. We We saw saw The Count and reviewed his Fleet with John Hertz at Stoner Creek here this morning. His first crop now are yearlings. Strolling about a field full of mares and foals, the Chicagoan chuckled and said: "You know, I have been mixed up in a good many business ventures, but I never really felt as anxious about any of them as I am waiting for these Count Fleets to come to the races." Anyone who has ever sweated out those three years from the time a horse goes to the stud until his colts and fillies reach racing age, knows what he means. "We think that we have some fine young prospects," Mrs. Hertz said, "but I suppose that the people on all the farms around here feel that way about their horses. Of course, that is the fun of racing." This corner also thinks there are some fine young prospects at Stoner Creek, if anyone cares at all. AAA Hertz has been breeding horses about 25 years, and he thinks that usually it takes that long to assemble a group of mares of the sortone wants. He has a good deal of confidence in the blood of The Tetrarch, and the English "Spotted Wonder" is well represented in Stoner Creek pedigrees. Of course, Anita Peabody had the blood, and so does Count Fleet. One yearling filly has four or five crosses of its and is neither too delicate or a text book case. The Tetrarchs name is interpreted to mean speed. Drawing on his experience, Hertz says on this subject that he finds "it doesnt do to worry too much about how far a horse is going. The most important thing is to breed one that can run. fast enough." The Reviewing The Counts Fleet at Paris Three of His Get in Hertz Sales Group Cosmic Bombs Half-Sister Among. Foals Harmonica Another Inbred to Broomstick extraordinary thing about Count Fleet is that he did both well. He is out of a "hard knocking" Haste mare, who won upward of 30 races in upward of 80 starts. She was not quite a stakes winner, but she beat horses who won stakes. "When Quickly came here, she was walking on her pasterns and we gave her a years rest," it was recalled. "Even so, her first foal was extremely small. But the next was Count Fleet." It often takes a year or so for a mare that is raced particularly hard to relax. AAA The Hertzes now have two stud farms, and spend considerable time at the one in California. They are rearing more foals than they care to race and 11 of the yearlings are consigned to the Keeneland sales. There are three Count Fleets, a Heliopolis and a colt and filly by Blenheim n. We shouldnt wonder if the colt by Blenheim n., out of La Reigh, excites some lively bidding. He now is on the Coast, where an offer of 0,000 was rejected for him, but will be brought on for the sales. La Reigh was a stakes winner, and beat Askmenow in the Betsy Ross in what was, perhaps, her smartest race. There is a medium-sized colt by Count Fleet, out of Smart Daughter, who has all the animation of his sire and is kept in a separate paddock because he plays so hard. One of the more familiar Hertz mares is Banish Fear, the dam of Cosmic Bomb. She hasnt a yearling, but she does have a chestnut filly foal by The Count who is a nice specimen. She has been returned to Count Fleet, and we think she goes-to Blenheim n. next season. The grass in Central Kentucky is serving the yearling crop well. The grazing at Stoner Creek is blue grass with a generous mixture of clover, which takes nitrogen from the air and increases the yield of grass, sometimes as much as 300 per cent. The grass tends to die out more rapidly in dry weather without it. AAA The Coaching Club result hardly will make the inbreeding of horses any less fashionable. When the experts explore Harmonicas pedigree they will find her inbred, though not closely, to the sire, Broomstick. Her grandsire, Boojum, is inbred to Broomstick, and her grandam, Shady, is by him. The notion here is that Broomstick was the ablest sire we saw until his grandson, Equipoise, came along. Either was the sort who might get a high-class, game and sensible horse from almost any old mare that could conceive. There was some little surprise when Cosmic Missile ran in the Oaks, and even more when she finished second, for a good many pundits had come to think of this smallish Roman filly as a sprinter. We believe that Arnold Hanger picked up Harmonica for 3,200 at the yearling sales, apparently for the account of his business partner, J. J. Watts. AAA Turfiana: Last evening we asked a researcher if he had any idea whether pedigree-without-performance was to be preferred to performance-without-pedigree in prospective broodmares. . . . Our expert replied that he had compiled statistics on a famous stud from the turn of the century, and that pedigree-and-performance combined were about 65 per cent successful. The other 35 per cent was shared about evenly between mares lacking in either class or breeding. . . . Johnny Clark, not long ago, sold L. B. Mayer a mare called Lady Ely, that is a half-sister to Harmonica, by Bull Dog. . . . Doublrabs dam, Double Shamrock, has a Challedon colt foal at Ira Drymons place this spring. . . . Mrs. duPont Weirs bay colt, by Challedon, out of Laughing Queen, is perhaps, the largest foal in the state. He is an orphan.
