Readying Espino Gold For Summer Campaign: Has Been Mated With Two Mares And Will Be Bred to Few More, Daily Racing Form, 1948-05-27

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Readying Espino Gold For Summer Campaign CampaignHas Has Been Mated With Two Mares And Will Be Bred to Few More MoreWASHINGTON WASHINGTON PARK Homewood 111 May 26 Miss Lydia Webers Espino Gold Js now leading a double life under the careful supervision of veteran trainer James Nugent Espino Gold is being prepped steadily for his summer campaign with time out for stud duty Nugent stated that the 10yearold son of Espino and Off Gold had been mated recently with Miss Webers mare Blossom Queen and Wil ¬ liam H Bishops Salomea and that he will service two or three more selected mares in the near future futureNugent Nugent is anxious to choose good blood ¬ lines for Espino Golds future progeny and he is hopefully optimistic that a portion of the success that the mare Rose Leaves be ¬ got Calumet Farms Bull Lea as his dam will pass through to Espino who is a half brother to the great Calumet sire sireAlthough Although never having been a sensa ¬ tional runner especially since age dulled his speed Espino Gold is known in the Chicago area as capable over any distance or track conditions His outstanding achievement was in the 1946 running of the one mile and a sixteenth 25000 Fran ¬ cis S Peabody Memorial Handicap in which he finished in a dead heat with Quizzle Espino Gold also ran second in the 1945 running of the Illinois Owners Handicap and in the 1945 renewal of the Steger Handicap


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