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I JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton 7 Yearlings, 9 Foals by Whirly at Calumet Mr. Longtails Progeny Haye Much Fire First Sun Again May Be Trained This Year Pot o Luck Now on Mend at Farm in Ky. v - TiSWS5?3FSSF LEXINGTON, Ky., May 28. Of course, Whirlaway was a spectacular favorite of the racing public, and he has a legion of admirers who agree with Bill Corum that it is nice his first colts and fillies are doing so well. Pos sibly some horse, will hit his money-winning target before the end of the season, but we dont know that this matters nearly so much to the American turf as the fact that he is making an immediate hit as a sire. Up to now he has out five winners from eight starters in perhaps a dozen races. This includes the three-year-old First Whirl, who won at two, eVen though he was a September foal. A few are hopefully believed to be stakes horses, and particularly the colt Whirl Blast and the filly Whirling Girl, who ran on top of a track record in the mud. We have yet to hear from 14 of his two-year-olds, but on the whole it is a good beginning. Whereas Warren Wright used to say, and quite accurately, that "Whirlaway doesnt have to be a good sire simply because he was a high-class race horse," he now says, "We think him a good prospect." This tourist can not recall when an untried stallion has had a better book of mares than Mr. Longtail did in his first season at stud, but the owners of these mares may not feel that they have not wasted them. If it interests you, there are three colts and four fillies by Whirlaway among the yearlings whose racing education will begin at Calumet about the 1st of July. The colts are Whirler out of Lady Erne, Whirl Home out of Nellie Flag, and Whirlawhile out of Heedless Gal. The fillies are Whirl Columbia from Columbiana, Whirl a Bit out of Hug Again, Risk a Whirl from Little Risk, and Four Elevens daughter Whirl On. We saw these youngsters today, and one that the attendants like is Whirler, although he has a good deal of white about him. A nice-bodied colt is Whirl Home, whose ankles were fired as a precautionary measure. One of the nicest of the Wright yearlings is the Bull Lea colt who is Dustwhirls last foal and is a half-brother to Whirlaway. You may recall that Dustwhirl died as the worlds leading money-winning producer and was buried at Calumet. She was purchased from A. B. Hancock for about 2,000 while she was carrying Whirlaway. There are four colts and five fillies by Mr. Longtail in the 47 crop of foals at Calumet, and farm manager Ebelhardt fancies they are the best that the horse has yet sired. They are of a type, and usually visitors can pick them out. The get of Bull Lea and Sun Again are frequently larger, but then the Whirlaways running gear tends to be straighter. We suppose that everyone knows he was an uncommonly sound horse. He has developed into a stallion of medium size and is more masculine than most horses of as much quality. Old-timers think he looks a bit like Hermis, a crack miler of the mule car era. Several furlongs of copy have been written about the bay colt Foremost, who is by Whirlaway out of Twilight Tear. This is a muscular sort, but we daresay that anyone who didnt know the dams of these Whirlaways would prefer Hydroplanes chestnut colt. She is an obscure Hyperion mare. We learn from the staff at the foaling barn that the colts and fillies by Whirlaway have a great deal of fire and that they are very quick. Of course, their sire once had almost more fire than Ben Jones could place under control. Curiously enough, Whirlaways two-year-olds have shown a lot of dash, although his own technique was a fast final quarter. Perhaps there was early speed in his repertoire, but Jones was much too busy teaching him restraint to develop it. We expect that Whirlaway will inevitably be compared with his stud mate, Bull Lea, who now is at the head of the sires list. If you have forgotten, Wrights first thoroughbreds were Lucille Wright and Warren Jr. John Hertz bought them for him out of a Rancocas sale at Belmont Park in 1931, and they then were yearlings. Warren Jr. was the first winner under the now famous Devils red at Arlington Park in June of 32. Wright began to assemble his Calumet stud about the same time, paying ,100 for Nellie Morse in 31 when she was carrying Nellie Flag. It was an awfully long time before he bred a stakes winner, but he certainly seems to have gotten the hang of it in late years. By the way, Pot o Luck and High Shine are mending at the farm just now. Probably these two and Sun Agains out of season foal, a two-year-old filly called Sunny Boo, will be taken up later in the year. Turfianat My Request is the first foal of his unraced dam Sugapud, and is almost an own brother of Carolyn A. . . . Dave Novick wonders that breeders havent made an objective research on certain basic economic factors in the thoroughbred market like the influence of claiming and non-claiming races, the influence of the number of tracks and racing days, and economic conditions as a factor in influencing prosperity of thoroughbred breeders. . . . Bachelors Double was out of a twin whose sister also is reputed to have foaled a stakes winner. . . . Coldstream sires few foals, but Royal Blood is one of three two-year-old winners for him thus far in 47. Argentinian Tapon Dies at Hawthorne HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 28. C. F. Shockleys Tapon, a seven-year-old son of Grease Paint and Themes, died at Hawthorne early Wednesday morning. Tapon, imported from Argentina, was a nominee for the La Salle Handicap, which is to be decided here next Saturday. Owner Shockley will remain here several days, and then depart for New York, later making a trip to South America in quest of more horses.
