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BETWEEN RACES 1 By Oscar Oth 1 1Dr Dr Miller Consignee to Saratoga Sells Get of Alibhai With Regards Seeks to Prove California Blood Tremayne New Paddock Judge Here HereHOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD PARK Inglewood Calif June 9 Dr Frank Porter Miller was so successful with his Californiaraised stock sold at the Saratoga venues of FasigTipton Company last summer that this year the Riverside County breeder is consigning an entire carload of some of the flossiest and best looking stock in the West One of the more interesting offer ¬ ings of the doctor is a colt by Johnstown Gamine she by Colorado Kid The dam of Gamine that worthy matriarch Francille is also the dam of Legend of France who is one of the outstanding young studs in Ireland and sire of the leading fouryear old there last year Spring Offensive Per ¬ haps Francilles most illustrous son is Esprit de France owned by Prince Aly Khan and winner of the Heathcote Stakes Blandford Stakes Irish St Leger Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket and third to Sayajirao and Grandweather in the Irish Derby Johnstowns stature as a sire has been increased by the stakes winner Acoma and Repand plus approximately 30 winners of nonstake races FasigTipton also will offer for the doctor a brown filly byj Alibhai Band o Green The latter is an unraced Bradleybred mare was purchased by Louis B Mayer who in turn sold her to Miller She is a halfsister to Bee Mac whose good colt Better Self needs no in ¬ troduction to American racing fans This incidentally is the only Alibhai in the Miller consignment A ADr Dr Miller also will offer one of the few if not the only Beau Pere yearling in the sale This is a brown filly from Reigh Grey she a full sister to Count Fleet The Count Fleets of course with but limited oppor ¬ tunities to date have shown so well and to such advantage that many astute breed ¬ ers look for him to rocket to the roster of leading sires in a matter of but few sea ¬ sons The promising stallion With Re ¬ gards standing at the Sneed Stock Farm near Hemet will have his first represen ¬ tation in the East in the equine person ¬ age of a bay filly from Pomiva she by Pompey Pomiva is the best winner from the Wrack mare Riva Pomina annexed 33900 in purses placing in stakes and handicaps and was above all hardhit ¬ ting in any competition This is her first foal The With Regards as yet have had no chance to demonstrate their worth there being but three of racing age but his current crop of yearlings is sturdy and have most excellent prospects for 1949 In addition Miller has two yearlings from Insco mares a Market Wise colt from the Bull Dog mare Doggerel a large chestnut filly by Rhodes Scholar Del Marie who at two defeated such as Augury and after being cut down early in her threeyearold career never regained her top form al ¬ though all of her progeny have been win ¬ ners She is now nursing a colt by Count Fleet And of final interest is a black colt by Sabueso one of the first of the Argen ¬ tine importations to California one time co holder of the mile record at Tanforan and mile and a half at Narragansett Park The dam is Black Onyx of the Fair Play line 4 4Miller Miller is out to prove two things as a breeder that California raised colts of proper conformation and blood background will sell well on the eastern market and that California is as good as the next place and may be better in many respects as a foundation land for fine thoroughbreds The man is strictly a quality breeder with a limited band of mares at his show place farm in Riverside County Miller is a prac ¬ ticing physician and surgeon who came here several years ago from Chicago to make his home He is a close friend of Mr and Mrs John D Hertz and has made good use of the generous and thoughtful advice offered from time to time by the master of Stoner Creek in Kentucky and Amarillo farm in the San Fernando Valley out this way His example may serve to expand the outlook of California which heretofore has considered itself pretty much an empire to itself insofar as the turf turfis is concerned Raymond Tremayne one of the new of ¬ ficials here is the original model in a plan devised by general manager Jack F Mackenzie and presiding steward Wendell Cassidy with the end in view of providing a reservoir of competent officials for rac ¬ ing in this area and of adding new blood to the Hollywood Park staff in particular Last season here Tremayne was a valet in the jockeys room This season he is pre ¬ siding paddock judge with two assistants Tremayne was first given an opportunity as an assistant paddock judge late last sea ¬ son at Del Mar when an overlapping of dates between the Surf and Turf course and Golden Gate Fields provided an open ¬ ing for additional racing officials in the California picture His work so impressed Cassidy at that time a Del Mar steward that the latter recommended him for the post here and Mackenzie agreed with the idea of giving the younger men a chance at the more responsible posts In line with this idea and to make sure that there are no indispensible men Hollywood Park is encouraging all officials under the rank of steward to prepare for the job just above It is hoped that from this study and train ¬ ing will come a reservoir of competent of ¬ ficials who will help to strengthen the sport in this area Tremayne a former rider originally hailed from Idaho
