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If BETWEEN RACES By Oscar Of is Marine Breeder to Become Breeder Sales Committee Talks Turkey Calif. Poly Offers Fiye Yearlings Western Fair Charts Educational HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 29. One of the wars great heroes and a revered name in the Marine Corps, is quietly planning to embark upon the career of a thoroughbred breeder in the pleasant Green Spring Valley s e c Cp r of Maryland upon his retirement from the corps. He is Col. James S. Devereux, who was a major commanding a Marine detachment upon Wake Island. The colonel is . now stationed at Camp Pendleton, big West 3 Coast marine base near Del Mar. He gets away from his official duties there as often s as possible to take in the race at Hollywood Park. Colonel Devereux owns a 60-acre , farm in the Green Spring Valley, plans to stock it with about six thoroughbred 1 mares, retaining part of the acreage for 1 blooded cattle. Colonel Devereux is no 1 stranger to the thoroughbred. His brother 1 Joe once rode point-to-point in Maryland and Virginia meetings. He, himself, is an 1 accomplished horseman and rode in a gen- 1 tlemens thoroughbred race at Caliente in : 1940. He was astride a horse named Bread Winner, unplaced in the dash. He did much riding as well as attending the racing in China before the war. ColoneLDevereux is among friends at Hollywood Park. He is a cousin of the well-known coast trainer, Jimmy Sinnott. Another cousin, James Sinnott, is on the Hollywood executive staff studying race track management and operations. He is assistant to the president at New Orleans. This latter Sinnott, by the way, is working summers most everywhere to aid him in the operation at New Orleans. He, too, is a combat veteran of five years in the. Army and, upon his discharge, was given a chance by his friends in New Orleans, who thought a young man should learn management. His past posts include study at Monmouth Park, Garden State, Delaware Park and Hawthorne. The sales committee of the California Breeders Association has talked with amazing candor and frankness to its members regarding the culling of stock for its forthcoming vendue, the nights of July 19 and 20 at Santa Anita. Some 30 horses were rejected from the sale of 160 originally offered. The committee let it be known that this years culling process made more emphasis upon physical condition, conformation and absence of blemishes or defects which might be conducive to unsoundness than upon breeding. But at the same time, the committee let it be known that, in the future, the selective process would be more rigid. The two most frequent causes for rejection were lack of gentling and general care and improper attention to feet. AAA It always is a pleasure to see the California State Polytechnic College of San Luis Obispo enter the sales. The Cal-Poly offerings, five this year, will go under the hammer the first evening. There are three fillies and two geldings, all by Zuncho. This South American stallion was donated to the school by Walter T. Wells. Students at Cal-Poly are receiving advanced training, both in theory and practice, in agriculture and animal husbandry. As a matter of fact, their stock has shown steady improvement each year and last summer the. clever winner, Soonuseeme, came from this consignment. AAA HORSES AND PEOPLE: Henry W. Collins, former chairman of the Oregon State Racing Commission, has entered the ranks of the owners and will be represented at Longacres this summer by Court Toubo and Why Alibi. . . . Armstrong stables costly 7,000 purchase, Doctrine, from the Louis B. Mayer gale, has been fired and wont be in action until late at Tanoran or early at Santa Anita. . . . Shawondasee, after a six-month freshening up at the idle SS Ranch of Mr. and Mrs, Harold Shumate, returns to the racing wars early next month. . . . Western Fairs Association, ruling body of the many agricultural exhibits which dot the state and which range from Orange shows to major affairs such as the State Fair at Sacramento and the Los Angeles County Fair at Pomona, is preparing and will distribute at an early date mammoth charts on the "Story of the Racing Dollar." . . . This is a first-time achievement worked out between the Western Fairs and the State Division of Fairs and Exhibitions and will show in simple language and figures and graphs just how a dollar wagered at a Metropolitan track is divided between winning ticket holders, track purses and state revenues. . . . The chart also shows how the states portion of this dollar is divided among agricultural colleges, state universities, agricultural research and stimulation to agriculture through the fairs. Paul Hirtenstein, for some 40 years turf editor of the Chicago Daily News and of recent months retired, came to California for the first time in his life a few weeks back, intending to stay a few days. . . . His visit lias stretched into weeks and he is seriously considering making this state his permanent home. . . . Indeed, Hirtenstein Will pass up his usual Florida winter next season in favor of Santa Anita. . . . Andrew J. Crevolin, the Alhambra motor car dealer, will be a Golden State newcomer to the Keeneland sales.
