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JUDGES STAND I By Charts Hatton Tenn Club Leader Joins Owners Ranks Bull Leas Stud Fee Soars to 5000 in 49 Speculation Sets Mark for Costly Yearlings Billings to Bt Pointed for Rich Classic ClassicLEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky June 7 7J J W Denis president of the Thoroughbred Club of Tennes ¬ see has been breeding thoroughbreds near Nashville for several years and he will race some horses this season He registered his colors with the Jockey club a few days ago and they are loud as a rebel yell The Denis silks are red with dark blue cross sashes white stars Confederate gray sleeves and cap Of course they were suggested by the Confederate flag I suppose I shall name my horses Shiloh and Chickamauga things like that Certainly not Gettysburg or Appomatox Denis said I expect to intro ¬ duce my colors at our oneday meet at Nashville this fall Denis became a market breeder in a small way here at Keeneland last summer when he sold Taylor Leather bury of Maryland a Roman filly out of Miss Porter for 3700 This blocky little bay number is called Vagrant Cloud and she has not been unplaced in three sallies up to now Indeed she won her latest start at Garden State by eight convincing lengths in 59 Denis now is preparing her brother for next months Keeneland sales Tom Cromwell sold Miss Porter to Denis for 3500 we think when the Tennesseean became interested iu the revival of bloodstock breeding in his state and decided to have a go at it She is his most prolific mare and now is in foal to Bernborough BernboroughBull Bull Leas stud fee will be 5000 to guarantee a liva foal beginning with 1949 it is indicated Up to now owner Wright has retained all but 15 seasons to Bull Lea in a book of 40 mares Next year the million dollar sire Is to have 20 Calumet mares and 20 outside mares So far as we are aware the late Man o War is the only other American sire to command a fee of 5000 We supposa that everyone knows by now that the Joneses are train ¬ ing at least two nice Bull Lea twoyearolds in Ellie S and Good Ending At the Calumet Farm is a yearling brown filly by Bull Lea out of Aunt Chaney who looks to farm manager Ebelhardt like ready money I really think she is the best Bull Lea filly we have had since Bewitch was a yearling Aunt Chaney Is a Blue Larkspur mare out of Judy OGrady that Wright bought privately from Walter Jeffords JeffordsN N W Churchs expensiye colt Speculation winner of tha 25000 Will Rogers at Hollywood Park is a prospect for Arling ¬ ton and Washington events at Chicago this summer There seems to be some good in this striking looking son of Mahmoud and Gala Belle after all Trainer Woody Fitzgerald always seemed to think so We believe that Speculation already has set some sort of record Five yearlings have sold for 65000 or mora in the United States and we do not recall that the 75000 New Broom the 70000 Hustle On the 66000 Pericles or the 65000 Broadway Limited ever won a stake Speculation won 6000 of his 65000 purchase price back last season at two but may be only just coming to his best form At the time of his purchase it was said that his owner was shopping for a colt bred well enough to be a prospective sire if his form warranted Specu ¬ lation is the third stakes winner produced by his dam Gala Belle at Dr Eslie Asburys Forest Retreat The first was his brother Alabama who was followed by Revoked now in stud at Beaumont Farm Revoked was sold for 41000 and turned back to Asbury who won upward of that sum with him The most successful of the higherpriced yearlings sold in America is Jet Pilot who cost Maine Chance Farm 41000 and won the Kentucky Derby DerbyBillings Billings is to be pointed for the Arlington Classic if we understand owner Robert W Mcllvain correctly Mean ¬ while there is the 15000 Lincoln Handicap of a mile and a quarter on June 19 at Washington Park Billings is unlike any other Mahmoud seen here in the West He is a rangy colt of the type horsemen associate with true stay ¬ ers and he is not in the least excitable Chicagoans liked his race in the Peabody Memorial which was his first stakes success and suggested there may be others Mcllvains Walmac Farm is not a large stud comprising about 15 mares but from it have come many useful run ¬ ners and an occasional stakes horse Billings was pre ¬ ceded by Wallflower who now is one of the studs prom ¬ ising young producers producersTurfana Turfana Calumet yearlings are galloped in the fields to teach them to follow the bit rather than the rails H E Hendricks of Knoxville addressed the Thoroughbred Club of Tennessee on care of pastures last week Ivor Baldings hay drying apparatus at C V Whitney farm was the subject of a feature in a Lexington daily Bill Harris considers Lady Josephine the strongest element in Mahmouds pedigree The crowds begin arriving before noon on holidays and Satur ¬ days at LincolnatWashington The old Army Remount Service now is the Agriculture Remount Service
