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I JUDGES STAND I By Charles Hatton Expect Strong Yearling Market This Year Drymon Colts Haye Interesting Background Risky Miss Foals Brother to Sirde in Ky. Bushers Sister Has Speedy Conformation LEXINGTON, Ky., May 29. Ira Drymon is one of the "small breeders" here in the Blue Glass. Showing us about his Gallaher farm today, he said that five of his yearlings have been consigned to the Keeneland sales and asked if we had any notion of the "strength of the market." This is almost an inevitable question here these days. As one who does not fancy himself either an economist or a prophet, we should hesitate to guess, but we have discussed it with most of the market breeders. It seems to be the consensus of opinion that the sales may be a bit off, perhaps 15 per cent by comparison with 1946 figures. Of course, this still would be quite a strong market. If you have forgotten, Drymon is the breeder of Inroc, who became a stakes winner a few days ago. One of the colts he will sell is a Market Wise from Lady Dean, a Chilhowee mare who won 18 races. Charles Fisher gave her to Drymon, and she is the dam of Benefactress and Head Start. Another with an interesting background is a rather stylish brown colt by Reaping Reward from Double Shamrock. It appears that a chap in Wisconsin bought this mare, in foal and with a foal at her side, for 50 before her son Doublrab quite found his racing legs. Drymon reported the mare is in foal to War Admiral this season. Challedon and Pictor are standing at Gallaher Farm for W. L. Brann, who, incidentally, has not seen either since they were retired. Challedon has attracted some notice as the sire of Donor and four two-year-old winners thus far this season. Tommy Bragg thinks highly of a Challedon filly called Post Deb, who is from Slim Rosie and has won twice. Not long ago the Seattle, Wash., sportsman, George Newell, sent the black mare Risky Miss here from the Coast to be bred to Pictor this season and Challedon next. She was vanned from Washington down to Los Angeles and flown the remainder of the distance with On Trust. The mare almost died en route, but she is recovering. Indeed, she has foaled a brother of Sirde, a clever miler of recent seasons. We suppose you know that Sirde is by the imported German stallion Mio DArrezo, whom the Nazis tried to recover after he sired Mioland in Oregon. In going about uplifting the breed, this tourist had heard some nice things concerning the mares and foals that Cy White has for Ogden Phipps at Elsmeade here. Phipps came 1,000 miles in the midst of the Belmont meet to see them last weekend, and our curiosity took us 12 miles this morning. We did not find them at all disappointing. Phipps is one of the younger set of sportsmen and breeders around Wheatley Hills. He has been assembling what is called the nucleus of a stud for several years, and just the four daughters of La Troienne he obtained from Idle Hour mark a rather enviable beginning. Since this mare has become the ancestress of a sort of modern-day "Barbarous Battalion," we thought you might like to know what is going on by way of developing the family. Three of Phipps four mares have foals this spring. The Selima winner Big Hurry has a bay colt by Eight Thirty who is a half-brother of Bridal Flower. Businesslike has a nice brown filly by War Admiral who is a sister-in-blood of" Busher, and you already know that Baby League has a sister of the worlds richest race mare. But Why Nots granddam, Black Helen, doesnt have a foal this spring. By the way, But Why Not was said to be flirting about the time of the Coaching Club. Of course, the sister to the spectacular Busher is "the observed of all observers" at Whites place. She turns out to be strikingly like. Busher except that she is a bay. They have the same fine eye and big jowl and the same unusual development of stifle and gaskin. You know Sid Grauman was tempted to bid on Busher just to ship her about the country -and show her at so much a look. White says when Baby Leagues latest War Admiral filly came he thought of keeping her in a separate paddock. "I decided that was no way to raise a race horse and that I should turn her out with the others and chance it that she would have gumption enough to take care of herself," he reflected. "It is a part of their education to mix with others, I think." Horsemen dont mind the marks of a few bites youngsters get playing together if only they escape any serious hurts. By the way, we hear from California that Neil McCarthy breezed Busher again last week as a part of her "prep" for an attempt to come back in the Hollywood Cup, and that she continues to pull up sound. The Virginia Horsemens Association had their annual meeting at Warrenton a few days ago and elected officers and made some plans for an expansion of their program during the coming year. There still is some talk of an effort to legalize the turf sport in the Old Dominion, but most of the horse folk there are opposed to any further commercialism of the game in America. In any case, a committee will be appointed to study the matter. Melville Church n. was elected the new president, Gordon Grayson the new vice-president. J. North Fletcher was reappointed secretary; Colin MacLeod, treasurer; A. Mackay Smith, executive director, and Nick Saegmuller, field secretary. New Directors in the club are Prince Dmitri Djordjadze, Paul . Mellon, Willie duPont and Oscar Smith.
