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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton LincoInatWashington Looms Success Breeders Sales Drawing Set for June 3 Winds Chant Foal Impress at Brookdale American Blood Again Is The Fashion LEXINGTON Ky May 26 26LincolnatWashington LincolnatWashington will prove a success to all the present auguries The play is off about 5 p c as it seems to be in other areas general manager Pete ODonnell tells us But the attendance is holding up well in spite of some unseasonable weather and the crowds seem very comfortable at this course ODonnell looks for a fast field in Saturdays 10000 Steger of six and a half furlongs and the presence of Piet adds interest to Mondays 25000 Peabody Me ¬ morial for threeyearolds Bomars 1947 Arlington Futurity winner is well known to Chicagoans and showed good form in Mary ¬ land this spring LincolnatWashington has attracted many of the better strings active during the spring season in Kentucky along n 01 rne same naing talent including jockey steve Brooks This 27yearold veteran is the perennial leading rider of the meeting in the Midwest and he has gained a large enthusiastic following at Chicago which certainly isnt detri ¬ mental to the volume of play Easterners were quite impressed by his deft handling of Ky Colonel in the Bashford Manor and indeed Ed Horn felt that show of jockeyship made the trip worthwhile Brooks does much of the riding for Dixiana which is headed by the Midwest sprint leader Spy Song and includes Four Winds and Shy Guy GuyBreeders Breeders Sales Company directors met here recently and further sifted the wheat from the chaff for the sale of select yearlings in July June 1st is the deadline for entering or withdrawing lots at these auctions and the consignors will draw for positions in the catalog on June 3 The 47 yearling market was off 29 per cent but purse distribution now is greater than ever and one finds no pessimists amongthe consignors In the end nearly 50 per cent of the yearlings breeders wish to sell will be excluded from the summer sales catalog A board passes on the breeding of the entrants Last year a Breeders Sales Company representative passed on their conforma ¬ tion but a rule since has been adopted which leaves this matter up to the consignors In future consignments they will be penalized a yearling for each colt or filly who fails to make 33 13 per cent of the average averageTom Tom Piatt showed us some of the bloodstock at his lovely Brookdale Farm which is in the lush Greendale area this morning The Greendale section also is the local of Crestwood Homewood and Mereworth The winners of five Derbys were reared at Brookdale stud We were interested to see Alsabs brother who has that new look and is very like The Sab as a foal it is said In our opinion their dam Winds Chant is one of the finest specimens of the thoroughbred broodmare in the Blue Grass Piatt has her in a field with four other mares each having a cross of Broomstick close up Winds Chant goes this year to Balladier to double up the Ben Brush and Domino Also at Brookdale we saw the Kentucky Oaks winner Come and Go and her first foal a husky brown colt by Balladier A mare the French would fancy is Lillian Uhl an own daughter of Epinard who has a rather stylish chestnut colt by Alquest One of the largest foals is the straight bay colt by Alorter out of the smallish mare Pinafore One finds some celebrated names remarkably close up in the pedigrees of several Brookdale mares For instance Imperial Plays second dam is Dike by Sir Dixon Mama Julias third dam is Miss Malaprop Farm Ladys second dam is Humanitarian Peacefuls second dam is by Tom Ochil tree Step Easys second dam is Frizette Summer Day is out of Maud Muller and Shawana is out of Humanity HumanityThe The master of Brookdale has seen many changes in what is called the fashion in bloodlines in the course of his halfcentury of experience in breeding thorough ¬ breds He prefers the stout American strains During the Hughes administration some of this blood was exported to France where it became the basis of Marcel Boussacs extraordinary success We now have imported horses of this blood which completes a cycle of the fashion if it does not prove a point The American system of racing is a severe test so that this turn of affairs shouldnt really surprise anyone Piatts policy in rearing horses is close to Natures For instance he doesnt think much of impregnating mares weans by the sign regards the horse as an outdoor animal believes that mares should have an occasional rest and no sire should have more than 30 mates matesTurf Turf ana Top Flights threeyearold daughter White Lady by Mahmoud won her debut recently at Belmont The recent winner Alablue is to be retired to Ernst Farm and bred at 4 in 49 Frank Frankel seems to have made a sagacious choice of a trainer in Ralph Kercheval who saddled Fond Embrace to win The Fashion Some years ago Kercheval played pro football with the Brooklyns and incidentally was a splendid punter Larry MacPhail will attend the Keeneland Sales this summer The HBPAs W E Charles is a partner with Tom Piatt in Heftys dam Charles Kenney declares that it is impossible to reduce bloodstock breeding to mathematical science and that if a mare is not a good milk cow one can discount the rest of it Little Harp is a stakes winner from the Louisville area
