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JUDGES STAND 1 ; By Charles Hatton Piatt Fillies Bid for Delaware Park Stakes Miss America May Increase Sales Handle Itinerant Biddy Jane Looms One-to-Beat Dance Nsings Form Encouraging to KTBA LEXINGTON, Ky., June 4. We suppose it is true there are market breeders whom one could not pay to race the produce of their studs, just as there are trainers who would flee from anyone that tried to give them a thoroughbred yearling. But "Marse Tom" Piatt, a veteran of a half-century of bloodstock breeding, has for decades maintained a racing string through "thick and thin," mostly thin, and it is nice that this season two fillies reared at his historic Brookdale Farm here have proved of stakes calibre. We refer to the three-year-old Stagestruck, who is by Ampitheatre, out of Lady Kentucky, and the two-year-old Lillal, who is by the Brookdale stallion Alorter. Price Sallee has taken them to Delaware Park* and if they continue to train satisfactorily Piatt will have some fun junketing back and forth to some to see them run. You may remember that a few years ago he sold Alsab for 50, then spent a good deal more in train fare the next summer travelling about to root for him. The Sab did not win them all of course, but his breeder long ago learned to win or lose with equal grace. It is a philosophy many who come into racing unfortunately never acquire. Stagestruck is a candidate for the Delaware Oaks and set most of the pace in the Kentucky original, hanging grimly on furlong after furlong before yielding. And Lillal is pointing for the Polly Drumniond. She was placed in the Debutante, and finished running at Real Delight and Biddy Jane. Both should eventually prove worthwhile additions to Piatts Brookdale broodmare band. His producers now are headed by the Kentucky Oaks winner, Come and Go, a young daughter of Epithet, whose first foal was a stakes winner. Piatt is a champion of native bloodlines and most ofthe mares are as American as corn on the cob. Their produce are noted among horsemen for their hardiness and good tempers. A great deal of soundness and character have been sacrificed by the introduction of "hot" imported blood in the stud in this country. Brookdale has an old fashioned atmosphere, and its master is not one to be carried away with new f angled ideas in stud farm operation, but is inclined to prefer practicality and the dictates of a long experience. He still is obtaining good results. Lincoln Fields 0,000 Miss Ameria Stakes last season brought out a rather flashy two-year-old filly in Princess Lygia, and the renewal this Saturday has attracted several of promise from other areas. The Rancocas winner, Biddy Jane, appears the-one-to-beat and has been £ freshened a few days at Detroit, en route from Garden State. Keeneland has sent her a rival in the shapely form of Happy Deb. This one is owned by the local Brumfield Brothers and trained by the capable young Blue Grass horseman, Herb Stevens. She is a sister to the rapid Woodchuck, who breezed to Dark Peter in the Camden Handicap last week. Stevens has been bringing her along slowly, in deference to her size and gameness. "She is in the Selima," he observes, "and runs as if she will go somewhere." Woodchuck and Happy Deb are by the Belmont Stakes winner, Pasteurized, out of Chuckle, who won stakes at two and was acquired by Walter Salmon before Woodchuck came to the races last winter. Clifford Mooers Gifted Gal trailed Biddy Jane in the Debutante, but Roy Waldron is convinced she is a good filly and she may try Jimmy Collins pet again on Saturday. Sidney Crew, some years back, raced a useful sort of mare in O Play and, bred to Shannon EL, she gave him a clever filly in Celtic Play, who won at the Downs, and also is a prospect for the Miss America. Biddy Jane, of course, "has the coonskins on her door," as they say along shed-row, and another stakes success for her would increase the handle at the Keeneland summer sales. For Charles W. Black, the Frankfort breeder, who sold her last fall, will market her own sister here next month. Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffer is also sending Sweet Patootie from Detroit for the juvenile stake. By no means all the bloodstock breeding in Kentucky is confined to Lafayette, Woodford and Bourbon counties, though the bulk of the nations wealth in stallions and mares in concen-- trated in them. Members of Roscoe Gooses Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders Association have a number of stud farms in Louisvilles Blue Grass district, and there are still others in the southern or "Pennroyal" part of the state around Hopkinsville. Current racing events are most encouraging for breeders in these outlying sections. For example, Dixie Flyer, recently acquired by Perne Grissom for about 5,000, was bred and reared near the Tennessee line, where Blue Flyer stood for several years. And the reformed plated, Dance Nsing, was bred by J. Graham Brown at his place near Derbytown. Dance Nsing ran a .big race" in finishing second, and coming again, behind Gushing Oil in the Peabody and there must be stakes he can win. He is by Seven Hearts, the best horse that has yet carried the Brown Hotel colors, and who now heads the Brown stud. Brown lost Dance Nsing at Miami in a claimer for ,000, but he is racing a very fast daughter of Seven Hearts in Ave. She ran head and head With Real Delight for about five furlongs in the Ashland. Eventually, we suppose, Ave will join Juliets Nurse and Miss Highbrow at the hotel mans stud. * Turf ana: Cary Boshamer tells us that Carolina Queen, injured in last years Kentucky Oaks, has been bred to Rosemont. She is one of the by-produce of the mare, My Auntie, dam also of Cousin, The Doge and Johns Joy. . . . The Suburban winner, One Hitter, is perhaps the only stakes winner in training whose lead pony is his own brother. . . . Sickles Image, who recovered her winning form at Detroit, is a prospect for Arlington filly and mare events. . . . Randall last summer considered a revival of the Ohio Derby, decided on a feature called the Great Lakes instead. . . Andy B. W. is attracting unusual attention to the small stud maintained here by John Great-house. . . . Thistle. Down probably will be a TRA track. ... It is conceivable the Detroit allowance mare, Janina, who is by Jacopo, out of an Asterus mare, will better her performance record at stud. . . . Bull Moose is the Bull Lea of the bushes. His numerous progeny are frequent winners about the Maryland, W. Virginia and Ohio half ers. Stands near Charles Town. ... No horses train at Cran- p. Continued on Page Thirty-Seven I JUDGES STAND By CHARLES HATTON Continued from Page Forty wood, but van or walk from Thistle Down or Randall to run. The jaunt is no farther than from Oklahoma to the main track at Saratoga. . . . Fred Burton tells us the Alcibiades and Breeders Futurity will be patterned after the Matron and Belmont Futurity, with filly produce of mares nominated eligible for the Al- j cibiades, and enabled to run also in the Futurity upon payment of fees charged the colts in July of their two-year-old form. . . . Cranwood announced breeders of its winners on the p. a. system. . . . Scarlet carnations, Ohios state flower, were much in evidence in lapels on Ohio Derby Day. . . Lou Pondfield thinks the idea of placing stewards at member tracks in the employ of the TRA, for assignment at the various meets during the season, might be beneficial to everybody concerned. . . . SyP Veitch was a partner in the breeding of Prince Adaris, recent Detroit winner.
