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JUDGES STAND BX CHARLES HATTON LEXINGTON Ky May 6 One of the best statistical stories of the stud in America is being written on the turf this season At the moment Coldstream Studs Bull Dog and his brother Sir Gallahad HI who serves at the Claiborne Farm are each within 70000 of becoming the first sire to get winners of 4000000 They are so close in their race to become the leading moneywinning sire of all time that only a statistician with a daily record of the form of their progeny could be quite sure who is the current leader Sir Gallahad HI still is in service at 28 and has been bred to 11 mares up to now in 1948 Bull Dog now is 21 and was this season retired from active stud duty However it seems that his 13yearold son Bull Lea is destined to eclipse all known earnings records He was the leading sire of 1947 when his get earned more than 1000000 He had only five crops of racing age up to January 1st this year and they had earned a total of 2638570 including seven winners of more than 100000 We do not think that he has sired quite Equipoises average earning per foal but with an ex ¬ pectancy of perhaps eight or 10 more crops it will be surprising if he does not achieve some remarkable totals totalsA A A A AA A very few of Bull Leas twoyearolds of 1948 have started Their appearance naturally will be watched with Interest One of whom we have heard some nice things is Calumets colt Good Ending who is the last foal of the mare Dustwhirl the dam of Whirlaway and Reaping Reward Calumet last year raced three champions by Bull Lea but not all of his 1948 title aspirants are eating Warren Wrights oats Charlton Clays barrel chested Lea Lark is a bidder for the threeyearold filly honors The thing about the Bull Leas is that they have New Stallion Record Near in 48 Season Bull Lea Gains on Bull Dog Sir Gaily Itsabet Proves Bargain for Brookfield Historian Essays Comeback in Chicago Chicagocompetitive competitive instinct and would rather run with the pace than run with the pack Many of them are plain but nearly all have good definition of running gear with sound feet and a lot of foot so to speak speakA A A A AHorses Horses form often changes from two to three and in the process that of Itsabet appears to have changed for the better This filly races for Harry Isaacs Brookfield Stable and her form was not at all bad last season for she managed to win four races and 37050 Among other things she won the Garden State Stakes and beat Macbeth Last week at Jamaica she made blase New Yorkers take notice when she won the 20000 Prioress from a good field Itsabet is by Heliopolis out of Jay jean by Rolled Stockings and was bred by Lewis Tutt in nearby Scott County She is also a Scott Countian on her dams side There is a great deal of what is called friendly rivalry between the Blue Grass provinces you know and we might add that after a few unfriendly sessions with a lawn mower this resident is prepared to say that no county grows more blue grass faster At any rate the Brookfield Stable picked up Itsabet for 6100 at the yearling sales and the form she showed in the new Prioress suggests that she may also be a factor in Jamaicas new 25000 Firenze on Saturday SaturdayA A A A AChicagoans Chicagoans will be pleased to learn that an old fa ¬ vorite H M Woolfs sevenyearold Historian now is at Hawthorne where he is training for an attempt to come back during the LincolnatWashington meeting His ankles are roughly the size of boxing gloves but he was fired last season and turned out at the Woolford Farm near Kansas City for a long rest Incidentally we have always thought the rest was the better part of firing horses but perhaps that is just naive In any case our scouts report that Historian is doing all that is asked of him which isnt very much really in a way that in ¬ dicates he may train on If you have forgotten he is the first horse to make a transcontinental flight for an im ¬ portant stakes engagement In the summer of 46 Eddie Anspach flew him from Arlington to Hollywood Park for the Gold Cup in which he was beaten two heads in 200 His performance marked a new era in racing racingA A A A ATurfiana Turfiana The Breeders Sales Company is erecting two more barns for the summer auctions Those tulips which landscape the Downs clubhouse lawn were imported from Holland in the first shipment since the war William Woodwards Epsom Derby entrant Black Tarquin cut himself slightly in a gallop but has mended at no serious loss of work Whirling Fox is galloping again after his hip injury Paul Ebelhardt is opposed to impregnating mares but we are afraid it is not true that those Bull Lea capsules may be had for three baking powder tops Ed Johnstone declares that the premise The family is stronger than the individual set back the breeding industry 20 years recalling Sand ringham and others Frank Eno Biftzows statistics show that all but 41 of the 174 horses past 12 years old that raced last year were money winners Rather than tinkering with the rules perhaps we should estab ¬ lish a school for racing officials such as Warren Wright suggests and enforce those which we have more rigidly i Neshaminy has foaled a War Relic colt that is almost a brother to Dorimar at Royce Martins new Woodvale Farm
