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JUDGES STAND fiy CHAMJES HATTON LEXINGTON Ky May 11 It is nice to have all The Laws of Aver ¬ ages in respect to classinthedam and Bruce Lowes mystic numerals in ones favor when he breeds a thor ¬ oughbred It is also well to keep ones fingers crossed umbrellas shut tight and all black cats in the background For instance there is Fred Flanders luck with his stud which is comprised of the mare Victorious Ann whom he keeps at Ira Drymons farm here A few years ago she produced a promising sort of Bostonian colt but un ¬ fortunately he broke a leg in his very first start She then foaled a most likable colt by Grand Slam but this one died on a train going to the races By this time the Muskegon sportsman was begirning to feel that the idea of breeding a runner from Victorious Ann not only was fascinating but also very elusive He was on the point of offering her for sale for 10000 last fall then decided to keep her a while longer This spring at Churchill Downs his luck finally changed In the space of a week Vic ¬ torious Anns twoyearold Challedon filly Blue Note finished second in the Debutante and Blue Notes three yearold sister Challe Ann won him a Kentucky Oaks Thus suddenly Flanders finds himself with two stakes fillies out of his hard luck mare The moral of Flanders experience with Victorious Ann is something to buck up every small breeders morale We should think that you may hear from her again for she now has a foal and a yearling who are brothers to Challe Ann and Blue Note NoteA A A A AThe The breeders here are turning their thoughts to the summer sales at Keeneland on July 26 27 28 and 29 and their thoughts seem to be optimistic John Hertz is said Luck and a Muskegans OneMare Stud Breeders Prep for Scres Optimistically But Why Nots Suggestion to Kleberg California Turfman Leases Flitaway Flitawayto to have resisted quite a tempting offer from a Virginian for his entire Stoner Creek crop of yearlings and Harrie Scott to have rejected a bid for Blue Swords yearling brother These will sell on the Keeneland market Owing to a misunderstanding Calumet has been in and out of the sale now is in the catalog which is to be released about June 15 Seven of its fillies and four colts are tentatively earmarked for sale including a daughter of Bull Lea and the Blue Larkspur mare Still Blue BlueA A A A AJ J Howard Rouse of Midway tells us that Bob Klebergs mare Be Like Mom has assumed the shape of things to come and soon now she is to foal a colt or filly by War Admiral Be Like Mom is at the local King Ranch which not only is approved by the editors of The Stud Book but would delight the staff of Good Housekeeping As if you didnt know Be Like Mom is the dam of But Why Not Reports from the East have But Why Not doing well and this observer fancies that she may be the Queen of the Turf again this season Competition in the fillyandmare division was never keener in con ¬ trast to the coronation ceremonies of the Triple Crown races New Yorkers look forward to a good show in Bel monts 20000 Top Flight of a mile and a sixteenth on June 9 for the cast may include But Why Not Gallorette the French Imprudence and the South American Nina Brujo Later in the season Arlington and Washington will offer the daughter of Blue Larkspur a stack of blue chips in the Matron and the Beverly By the way Kleberg now has But Why Nots yearling sister and this spring will breed Be Like Mom to Revoked on the theory that one cannot have too much of a good thing we suppose supposeA A A A ACalifornias Californias Louis Bronstein was here recently and has leased Flitaway from A B Hancock Jr for racing in his Armstrong Stable colors at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita Flitaway is a threeyearold filly by Blenheim n out of Fine Array and her form suggests that she will make her presence felt on the West Coast Bronstein seems to have assembled quite an extensive string out on racings Gold Coast one that includes Brabancon and an estimated 180000 worth of the Mayer sale twoyear olds Among the twoyearolds is a brother to On Trust who looks as if he might stride over one of Bronsteins famed Mile High Ice Cream Cones Perhaps you know that Paul Lycan now is training the Armstrong Stable horses horsesA A A A ATurfiana Turfiana Harrie Scotts mares are extremists For two years they foaled nothing but fillies This spring all the eight that were in foal produced colts Citation reminds John Clark of a big lazy dog In the Derby the lazy dog jumped over the quick brown fox meaning Coaltown of course S D Riddle has been visiting Faraway The turf scribes horse Pounditout will be under colors the latter part of Belmont Blenheim II has sired a colt from Scenery and filly from Firetop at Claiborne Mrs W L Brann inspected Challedon recently and was very pleased with him Bull Han ¬ cock considers Walmacs Billings just the sort for the Belmont Stakes
