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I JUDGES STAND F By Charles Hatton Some New Trends in Sire Statistics Market Tests Beginners Popularity Promising Fillies Among First Alsabs La Liberte, Valkara in His 47 Book LEXINGTON, Ky., May 24. It seems perfectly clear, even to this casual observer, that there is going to be an unusual number of new names on the list of leading sires within a few years. The successful Blue Larkspur and St. Germans died this spring. Not to make too sharp a point of it, but Sir Gallahad m., Blenheim II., Bull Dog, Challenger n. and Beau Pere all are 20 or older. Nobody is giving away seasons to them as bridge favors, and we know that Man o War and Black Toney were old when they sired War Admiral and Bimelech, but less use may be made of these stallions in future years. Of course, it follows that they will have fewer colts and fillies at the races. It is perhaps a corny thing to say, but it is really a case of youth will serve. Three sires who have attracted attention this season are Whirlaway and Alabhai, who now are nine, and the eight-year-old Requested. Alibhai has sired a couple of decent colts in The Dude and On Trust, and we suppose you have heard those preposterous Hollywood reports of the offers for him. Requested was a tough little horse in training and his first crop of two-year-olds includes My Request and Picnic Lunch, who have won early stakes in New York. As this is written, Whirlaway has out four winners from six starters in his first full crop of 24 foals, with something called Dart By in the days entries. The three Warren Wright ran have won at the first asking, and one of these is Whirl Blast, who is Ben Jones idea of a potential Derby horse. If you care for excuses, Riot had one in his only start. When the scouts come to the Blue Grass in a few weeks they will see the first crops by Sun Again, Some Chance, Count Fleet, Alsab, Shut Out, Market Wise, Pensive and other young sires of more or less likable year-ings. We shall all be interested in how these yearlings sell, and particularly in how they race next season. We should thing that the bumper grass crop will help the yearlings, and the luxuriant mint beds may help the market. Buyers nowadays dont seem to mind so much whether a horse is an untried sire, for the first progeny of Eight Thirty and Whirlaway sold well, and one hears estimates that Risks filly by Count Fleet will bring as much as 0,000. Of course, this is the best time to see the yearlings, for some of them will be prepared for the market in. the ensuing weeks. Alsab is one of a very few that we should be willing to call a great race horse, and we hear some complimentary things about him as a sire. It is said that the nimblest yearlings at Almahurst and Spendthrift are fillies by him. We havent seen these two as yet, but today John Zoeller showed us a particularly nice filly by Alsab out of Seventh Day, a mare by Zacaweista that had a lot of dash. She is not one of those big hacks nor a pretty filly, but she has the fluent action and racing machine structure of her sire. Of course, the Sabaths hope that she has as much heart, and to sell her would be unthinkable. The only other Alsab yearling on the farm is a rather sway-backed gelding. The stallion himself is a dappled bay, and if you think that a curious color, we wonder what you would say to a description of Olhaverry as a freckled-face white, which is the only possible thing to call him. Alsab has a book of 35 mares this season and he seems a fairly sure foal getter. At the outset of his stud career, a few of the mares booked to him were of a sort that gave him a splendid opportunity to join the remount. But there has been some improvement in this direction. The Sabaths own I Say is the dam of a stakes winner, and George Widener has sent him the dam of Post Graduate. Then there is the Lawrence mare, La Liberte. Among those who have booked to him are Alfred Vanderbilt, Mrs. Barclay Douglas, Mrs. H. C. Phipps, John C. Clark, Russell Firestone, Sandy Baldwin and Walter Chrysler. There now are 10 foals at the Sabath farm, with one mare yet to foal. There are six cols and four fillies, all by Alsab, except for a colt by King Cole. The Alsab colts are bays from Say Gal, Black Orchid, Starry Flag and Asianna, and a chestnut out of Seventh Day. The fillies are chestnuts out of Miss Stage and Fighting Polly, and bays out of Keenan and I Say. Zoeller is a bit partial to the filly out of Fighting Polly, who is a mare by Man o War, and she is a big-boned youngster. Seventh Days colt is not so good as his older sister, but has a good deal of energy, and the filly out of I Say might grow into a neat specimen. Turfiana: Roy Martin and Leslie Combs are buying more land here. . . . The stakes winners, Gee Whiz, Fighting Step and Wee Admiral, were foaled at Mrs. R. J. Murphys place near Evansville in Indiana. . . . John H. Clark is going East to attend the Belmont and a paddock sale. . . . Hirsch Jacobs mare, Fib, has foaled a black Mahmoud colt at Henry Knights. . . . Jack W. Denis is visiting the farms of all the 75 members of the Thoroughbred Club of Tennessee. . . . Grainger Williams is sending three mares to Boy Knight this season.
