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-■ .. SIRES AND DAMS Ry NELS0N unstan CHURCHILL DOWNS, Lexington, Ky., May 10. — Three Dot Shorts: Darby Dan Farm, which is operated by John W. Galbreath and managed by Glen Tomlinson, will not be a consignor to the Keeneland Sales this year but will race all of their colts and reserve the fillies for the producing producing forces forces . . . . Dr. Dr. Charles Charles Hag- producing producing forces forces . . . . Dr. Dr. Charles Charles Hag- Hag-yard, famed veterinarian, is of the opinion that yearlings obtain their greatest development in the month of June . . .H. H. "Doc" Mundy, the Oklahoma breeder, tells us that Henry H. Knight, the leading consignor to Saratoga, has the most impressive group of yearlings he has seen in many years. Knight does not plan to sell more than 30 of them in upstate New York. "I will pick only the finest for the sales ring," Knight told this writer . . . Thomas Piatt, the popular master of Brookdale Farm, is being congratulated on his engagement to Miss Martha Blake Hukle, also a resident of Lexington . .The farm managers held their meeting at the Lafayette Hotel Monday night of this week and all were very enthusiastic about the recent film taken at the Greentree Farm of John Hay Whitney and his sister, Mrs. Charles Payson . . .Jack Howard is slowly recovering from his recent illness and is expected to be about soon again. . .Herman Delmans How, winner of the Kentucky Oaks, is to be pointed for the Coaching Club American Oaks, which will be run at Belmont Park on June 2, and will probably not be seen again until the upstate Saratoga meeting. . .The Cancer Fund which has been conducted among horsemen and breeders by Neville Dunn, surpassed all other branches in the amount of money raised. Racing men and breeders can always be depended upon to do their share for worthy causes ... Jimmy S. Jones who Count Turf Draws Attention to Count Fleet Handsome Babes by Hertz Sire in Summer Sales Kentucky Derby Winner Inbred to Sundridge Stymie Draws Fans to Doctor Hagyards Farm is not the Jimmy Jones of Calumet, has done a fine job in filling the books of the two stallions, Challenge Me and With Pleasure. AAA Since the victory of Count Turf in the Kentucky Derby, interest has quickened in the Count Fleet yearlings that breeders will offer at the Keeneland Sales late in July. Some beautiful colts and fillies by the "Triple Crown" winner are to be found at various Deeding establishments here in the Blue Grass. One of the most impressive fillies we have seen to date is a bay by Count Fleet, out of Fair Weather, by Sickle, thus a half-sister to American Glory. The second dam of this miss is Fairday, by Fair Play, the dam of Triplicate, Inseparable, Lady Day, Mirrored and other winners. She is being prepped for the sales ring at the Coldstream Stud of E. E. Dale Shaffer. One colt who may be among the top youngsters of the year is to be found at the Claiborne Farm of Arthur B. Hancock at Paris, Ky. He is a colt by Count Fleet out of Black Wave, the mare who produced the Kentucky Derby winner, Jet Pilot. The Derby winners can well be associated with Claiborne, for they not only bred Johnstown and Jet Pilot but also the "Triple Crown" winners, Gallant Fox and Omaha, whom they raised for William Woodwards Belair Stud. Needless to say, the Stoner Creek Farm of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hertz will have the largest group of Count Fleet year lings to be offered at Keeneland. This writer plans a later trip into Kentucky to look over the yearlings that are to be sold, but before leaving the Blue Grass area we hope to get a look at these Count Fleets at the Hertz Farm. No matter how good a stallion may be, a Derby winner always adds interest to the yearlings sired by him. AAA Count Turf is the latest racer to support the theories of the advocates of inbreeding. Last year, column after column was written about Battlefield and his inbreeding to Fair Play or Fairy Gold. While many breeders are openly opposed to pedigrees with close-up relatives, there is just no shouting down a colt such as last years two-year-old champion or again, this years Derby winner. Both Count Fleet and Pompey, his maternal grandsire, are direct male line descendants of Sunbridge. The sire of Sunstar and other horses, who were more noted for their speed than their ability to run over a distance of ground, Sunbridge was also the sire of Sun Briar, the Kilmer champion who created a new record for one mile in an unofficial test at Saratoga back in the 20s. There will always be a controversy regarding the merits of inbreeding. It has certainly worked out well in cases of Battlefield and Count Turf and one of its staunchest defenders of modern days is John D. Hertz, while another is Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., who bred both Assault and Middleground, both of whom were Derby winners. AAA If you were an admirer of Stymie — and who was not? — you should get a look at the old boy today. We went -out to the farm of Dr. Charles Hagyard and for quite a spell renewed acquaintances with the horse who was one of the most popular ever to step on a New York race track and is today a magnificent looking stallion. He has Continued on Page Thirty-Four I SIRES AND DAMS I By NELSON DUNSTAN Continued from Page Forty-Four Man o Wars old trick of striking a pose when he realizes he is being inspected by 1 visitors and, remembering what a hand- some animal he was on the race course, 1 you should see him as he puts his head in the air. He is a typical stud today, having 1 let down to the appearance of a stallion. Dr. Hagyard said, "He naturally attracts 1 many people to our farm, for he was one I of the most beloved horses of the past 10 years. Last year he had five foals for his first crop, this year he has around 14, with more to come, and is being bred to some 3 36 mares this season. His stud mates at 1 Dr. Hagyards farm are Free for All, Hoop 1 Jr., and Basileus H., the French horse who 1 was bought by Isadore Bieber for 0,000. * Here, too, is an eye-filling horse, but one 1 who is very different in appearance to 1 Stymie. In fact, the four stallions now standing at Dr. Hagyards farm are very different to one another in appearance, i Free for All stands about 15.3 hands and I reflects power just as Ariel did when he t was in his prime at the W. J. Salmon farm. C Free for All was struck by lightning some ± three years ago after his racing career was t ended when he broke down in the Derby Trial. But the mishap left no effects. He 1 is the sire of Roughn Tumble and Dr. I Hagyard expressed his confidence in the : future of this horse. Q Dr. Hagyard, who is one of the leading * veterinarians of this country, is somewhat unique in that he has a busy practice and r at the same time carries on a breeding farm. He attributes much of the success of his farm to the work of his farm man- ager, Edgar Blanton, in whom he has the * greatest confidence. "I have about 10 mares now," Dr. Hagyard told us, "and I j plan to add five or six high class producers in the next three or four years. There is v no point, as I now see it, in producing the c cheaper grades of yearlings and, while I * am very optimistic as to the coming sales, I I believe this point will be apparent more r this year than it was at Keeneland last V. July." Dr. Hagyard has five yearlings to * offer but has not made up his mind as to which of them will be sold in the summer i: is or held over to the fall. One of these t youngsters is a colt by Free for All, out of s Roused, by Bull Dog, thus a full brother y to Roughn Tumble, who raced so impres- v sively on the West Coast this year and f would have been one of the favorites had h he been a starter in the Kentucky Derby, p He is a much better looking colt than y Roughn Tumble was as a yearling and it c i: is t s y v f h p y c easy to visualize the bidding that will take place once this babe is placed in the sales ring. When Roughn Tumble was a yearling Dr. Hagyard said, "Free for All was an untried stallion and he was the first foal out of Roused. Now that the sire has established himself and the dam has proved her worth, I do think that this yearling to be sold will have much better credentials than his older brother.**
