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JUDGES STAND I = By Charles Motion Pedigrees of Imported French Yearlings Calumets Exceed 47 Earnings to Date Coaltown May Beat Watch in Withers Fond Embrace Boost for Sire Haltal HaltalLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 25 25There There is much interest in the French yearlings that arrived recently at Duntreath here Farm manager Pete Williams tells us that they are doing well We are grazing them daily and leir aiec memoes some corn wnicn tney relish he observed adding that I dont think they had any in France Williams has furnished us with their pedigrees and they certainly are a blue bookish lot by European standards The colts are by Tor nadoPiffoel by Rialto HieroclesRenarde by Foxhunter DjebelLa Farandole by Chateau Bouscat Le Pasha Rose Mousse by Goya IE NasrullahRiver Princess by Windsor Lad VatellorMerry Hope by Abjer JockSeeb by Solario Djebel Pavane by Vatout CanotCorisande by pinard CanptNetza by Fair Copy CanotSans Aretes by Filarete CanotBayadere by Clairvoyant and AdarisFlying Cap by Cappiello The fillies are by AdarisTroyenne by Mon ¬ arch CanotConundrum by Motrico FanatiqueRapine by Massine Owen Tudor Akanai by Noble Star Le Pasha Vasite Royale by Admiral Drake JockMa Chere Amie by Rodosto TourbillonParabole by Kircubbin FanatiqueAmponella by Le Capucin VictrixVanity Fair by Fair Copy and Dogat Scarlet Skies by Blandford Thesire Canot is generously repre ¬ sented in the group and you may know that he is the sire of the splendid French filly Imprudence who is presently doing so well in her preparation for the Top Flight Handicap on June 9 at Belmont Park It is our understanding that these yearlings are to be sold in the fall and that there is some possibility that Canot will be imported Warren Wrights thoroughbred won a record sum of 1402436 last season and it would not much surprise us if they surpassed this mark in 48 At any rate they were credited with 515510 to date this spring as against 449341 for the same period in 47 By the way there are four Bull Leas among the 18 twoyearolds in the string with the sale of Eagle Speed after his unsuccessful debut These are the colts De Luxe out of Nellie L and Good Ending out of Dustwhirl and the fillies Ellie S out of MarKell and Too Lea out of Two Bob BobNew New Yorkers are looking forward to a particularly fast run ¬ ning of Belmonts traditional 25000 Withers Mile this week ¬ end This affair last spring was won by Faultless and his nimble stablemate Coaltown is an eligible for Saturdays version of the American 2000 Guineas Coaltown has beaten two track records in his brief but brilliant career and there is no doubt he has enough sheer zip to approximate the stake record of 135 with a bit of prompting from his rivals Among the latter may be Ben Whitakers resolute colt My Request who hardly ran his race in the Derby He did not ship well and washed considerably in the paddock and on parade which is not customary with him The Withers record incidentally is owned jointly by Snob II and Johnstown and the Belmont record for the distance is Count Fleets 134 as a twoyear old in the Champagne The world mark for the distance still as Equipoises rather challenging 134 under 128 pounds at Arlington Park We are not one of those who fancy that Coal town can beat Citation doing anything In the first place Cita ¬ tion actually breaks faster and his knee action is less high But one wonders if there is another threeyearold who can cope with Coaltown He is expected to be an extensively backed favorite in the Withers WithersRoyce Royce Martins Woodvale sire Haltal obviously got a nice filly in Frank Frankels Fond Embrace a 6200 yearling that won theFashion not long ago at Belmont As the story goes Martin obtained this ones dam Sari Omar from Warren Wright for about 2500 the sum for which she ran in a claimer John Hertz Count Fleet filly Our Fleet shied nearing the Fashion finish and was narrowly beaten but she seems an honest sort and the Hertzes are well pleased with her S toner Creek will offer yearling buyers her halfbrother by Devil Diver this summer at Keeneland KeenelandTurf Turf ana Darby Dans crop of 1948 fpals numbers 32 with two to go according to Olin Gentry Included in the lot are two bull Lea fillies a Whirlaway and a War Admiral Lovely Night should suit many Virginians as he has won stakes both on the flat and throughthefield The South American mare Nine Bruja behaves as if she will prefer route racing working countess furlongs in 13 seconds all at the same time Bowie has a permit for some rather extensive improvements Fortunes piece on Alfred Vanderbilt foresees a change in the balance of power in The Jockey Club perhaps with the next elections Walter Chryslers clever twoyearold Ab ¬ stract is out of the stakes winner Strange Device who was not a gift mare because nobody would have her as a yearling
