view raw text
JUDGES STAND L By Charles Hatton Knight to Sell 20 at Spa on Friday 13th John Hertz Discovery Leads to Policy Djordjadze Experiments With Frenchbreds Star Reward May Seek Lincoln Double DoubleLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky June 4 4Friday Friday the Thirteenth of August will be Knight Night at the Saratoga Springs yearling sales we learn from the Master of Almahurst I am superstitious too he chuckles but Frank farm manager Podesta is reassuring He thinks it is as good a time as any to sell This is the season of the year when all of the breeders go about making hopeful little prophecies that the yearlings will average at least as much as they did last summer Knight dabbles in horses more or less all the time and he thinks quite frankly that the average may be off 10 per cent or so It still would be considered quite a good market Knight expects to offer about 20 at The Spa including a Mahmoud colt and filly and Bull Dog fillies out of Aphaona and Irvanna The Mahmoud colt is a brother to Greek Warrior and he is of the gray color which yearling buyers find so charming There will not be so many more Bull Dog fillies By the way the 1948 crop of Almahurst foals totals 41 with the colts only just predominating by a margin of one Knight seems to count the day lost he doesnt buy or sell a horse and he recently sold Californias Louis Bron stein a Zacaweista colt and Pennsylvanias H A Grant colts by Easy Mon and Grand Slam Speed is the forte of the Easy Mons as it is of his kinsman Coaltown They are out of half sisters you know knowJohn John Hertz has made a discovery At his Stoner Creek Farm near Paris he told us I plan to offer all of the yearlings at Keeneland with the exception of three fillies that may be turned back to the stud There are several reasons But the first and most important is that I have found that it affords me fully as much pleasure when a Stoner Creek horse wins for another owner as for our ¬ selves Yon see he still is our horse in the sense that we bred and reared him The writer has always felt that this is the most fun which the sport has to offer but there are cynics who refuse to believe that people care about improvement of the breed Hertz added that the fact we now have two farms and two racing strings is a further reason for the decision to sell sellPrince Prince Dmitri Djordjadze is making a most interesting ex ¬ periment He has imported a few good class flat and hurdle horses from France The two hurdlers Diable de Goss and Le Buis Fleuri are owned in partnership with Alain du Breil Djordjadze writes that the former won two of three starts in France including the classic Prix de Fould and indeed was rated the best hurdle horse there The other was not unplaced in fiv starts two of which he won Le Roitlet a son of Djebel who won stakes both in 1947 and 48 is among the flat horses George Brent was a recent visitor to Djordjadzes Plain Dealing Stud in Virginia became interested in Le Roitlet and bought him He is now in California The able young trainer Reggie Cornell has two other flat horses for Djordjadze at Garden State These are the fouryearold Bir Ackeim and the threeyearold Buda ¬ pest Bir Ackeim won stakes at two and three and in Frances three year old Experimental was rated within eight pounds of Djelal two of Imprudence Budapest won stakes at two and this year won a mile and a quarter stake Djordjadze writes During the past three years we have seen on our race tracks many Argentine horses I own some of them and we know what they can do in distance races Personally I have always con ¬ sidered French thoroughbreds superior to Argentinas but the only trouble is that one cannot buy a Derby or a Grand P rix winner for importation as in the instances of Miss Grillo and Rico Monte I think these French importations will allow us to have some definite idea on importing French horses of above average class how soon they can run and how long it will take them to get acclimatized Djordjadze mentions Imprudence who has trained well here and Hirsch Jacobs seems not too dis ¬ appointed in Basilieus We have always thought the French Epinards U S form rather convincing convincingLincolnatWashingtons LincolnatWashingtons 10000 La Salle Handicap is The Race of the Week here in the MiddleWest This mile and a furlong is a sort of preview of the Lincoln Handicap which is also for threeyearolds and upward with 15000 added at a mile and a quarter on the 19th Equifox and Historian have brought off doubles in the two Crete club events Star Rewards admirers fancy he may emulate them this year Charley Fishers colt has been slow to develop but he is a useful handicapper handicapperTurf Turf aria Gallorette has a new sister at W L Branns Mary ¬ land farm The youngster is of course by Challenger n Gal lette King Ranchs Swap Out one of the first Shut Outs was within threefifths of a 20yearold Belmont mark in his debut The Klebergs bought him for 25000 from Charles Asbury here last summer Bud Burmester of St Albans Stock Farm Arlington Texas advises that Dr Alvis E Greers filly Flint Ress whose leg injury caused such a stir now is in foal to Chicuelo She is at Charles Gays Win ¬ chester farm George Brent is developing a California breeding farm
