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FRANK J. KEARNS— Owner-trainer of - Rambling Mary, who won yesterdays second race at Belmont Park and returned a 11.00 mutuel, the largest return of the New York season. _ . REFLECTIONS -By Nelson Dunstan Breeders Preparing Yearlings for Sales Sales Executives Predict Firm Markets Fasig-Tipton Company Busy Organization Brookmeade Yearling Sale Big Surprise NEW YORK, N. Y., June 4. Every year, the early days of June bring more volume to talk about yearling sales in July and August. A few weeks ago in Kentucky, XClltUVtWJ, Bill Evans .III Veil AO Ul of the Ult Breeders v-i-vai Sales uuiAtj Company, said, "I Kentucky, XClltUVtWJ, .III Veil AO Ul Ult v-i-vai uuiAtj expect an exceptionally strong market at Keeneland." Tyson Gilpin, president of the Fasig-Tipton Company, evidently feels the same way about it, for he told this writer, "Down through the years, there have been many mediums by which to judge sales and one of them is the attendance and mutuel play at our tracks." Both men, who are very close to the sales picture, are justified in their confidence, for not only is the attendance and mutuel play high above the figures of last year, but purse and stake values are at a peak never before attained in this country. 11 y. J-tiWsl/ Last year, jcai, many many new i-li* n California buyers 11 y. J-tiWsl/ year, jcai, many many i-li* n _ . came into the market to buy expensive yearlings and it is our understanding they will be back this season. Breeders throughout the country are now putting the finishing touches on the colts and fillies they will offer and there is every reason to believe that buyers will bid as strongly as they did a year ago, when the trend was definitely upward. In late years, some buyers hesitated because of inability to obtain stalls at the tracks, but there has been an easing in that condition this season, and many track heads are planning to build additional stables with the lifting of restrictions on construction of this nature. Prior to last years sales, it was expected that the averages would exceed those of 1950. Early in July, all eyes were on California and there was satisfaction in the East when the sales in the Golden State were 36 per cent higher than the year before. It was generally agreed that the Kentucky breeders were offering fine lots and when the Keeneland vendues closed, the averages showed an increase of 37 per cent, to the satisfaction of all consignors. From Keeneland, the yearling sales went to Saratoga and at the upstate Spa, 299 head were sold for a total of ,632,600. an average of ?5,460. This represented an increase of 48 per cent over the 1950 returns. The increase will hardly be as great this year. The Spa will offer a novelty in the sales of 20 yearlings from the Aga Khan, one of the worlds foremost breeders for many years. Other foreign consignments will be offered, but whether they will top the groups that many American breeders will send to the market is a question. Henry H. Knight, the Alma-hurst breeder, has led the Saratoga consignors in recent years. With his purchase of the Coldstream yearlings, he will offer 50 colts and fillies that rank with the most; impressive that have been sold upstate since the Fasig-Tipton Company erected their pavilion in 1917. Fasig-Tipton Company will be a busy outfit even before they stage the annual yearling sales at Saratoga. Tomorrow morning and Friday morning, they will conduct sales of horses-in-training at Belmont Park, and the dispersals of the estates of P. A. Markey and J. L. Friedman will be featured. The Friedman sale of 13 horses will be conducted tomorrow morning and in the group is the good three-year-old gelding, Oreo, winner of eight races, including the Constitution Handicap and Bowie Endurance Handicap. On Friday, consignors to the Belmot sale, besides the estate of P. A. Markey, include Bernadotte Sable, Grandview Stable, Maine Chance Farm and others, who will offer one or two horses. The Markey offerings number four colts, three fillies and two geldings. One of the colts, who has been a winner, is the brown by Errard— Miss Lark, by Blue Larkspur. Now a three-year-old, this colt is named Pops, and he started twice as a two-year-old, winning one race by four lengths, and finishing second in the other. One of the most interesting offerings of the two mornings at Belmont is the crack hurdler, Titien H., now a six-year-old. He is being sold to dissolve a partnership between A. E. Masters and A, du Briel. Titien n. is a winner of 14 races and is regarded as one of the best hurdlers in this country. Last year, he won the Meadow Brook Steeplechase Handicap, defeating Lone Fisherman and Elkridge. The news that Brookmeade Farm of Mrs. Dodge Sloane would sell its entire crop of yearlings in a special auction, to be held at Belmont Park, July 19, was a surprise to those in racing. Mrs. Sloane has been a bulwark of the salesrings for many years and has conducted her stable on such a high plane that in 1950 she led the list when her horses earned 51,399. This consignment, it must be stressed, is the entire crop and that not only embraces all the Brookmeade yearlings, but many that were purchased that can be depended upon to race well next year. There are 22 youngsters in all by such stallions as Ardan, Case Ace, Pavot, By Jimminy, Shannon U., Stymie, Whirlaway and Sun Again. Then of the offerings are fillies, and breeders will be interested as racing owners in such potential broodmares as a bay filly by Case Ace— Bonnet Ann, by Blue Larkspur; bay filly by Goya II.— Pomayya, by Pompey, and chestnut filly by Whirlaway — Royal Venture, by High Quest. It is known that Mrs. Sloane has offered some of her highly regarded broodmares at private terms and there is considerable wonderment whether this complete sale of her yearlings means that she is merely reducing the size of the stable that has been prominent in racing for almost 20 years. From Belmont Park, the Fasig-Tipton crew will journey to California, where, on June 30, they will disperse the thoroughbred holdings of William Goetz, of Your Host fame. In the Goetz dispersal are 11 race horses, three yearlings, two broodmares and two foals of 1952. Regardless of where this sale is staged, it is of highest quality, for in it are many horses of the breeding that caused the dispersal of TjOuis B. Mayer, father-in- aw of William Goetz, to be the most spectacular ever conducted in this country or any other country. Among the race horses to be offered are the four-year-old Gold Note; a bay colt by Beau Pere — Singida, by Solario, and Cornerstone, a brown colt, who is now two years old and is by Alibhai, out of Jerrybuilt, by Empire Builder. Jerrybuilt is the dam of Solidarity and Imperial Rock. Then there is Your Hostess, a full sister to Your Host, who is one of the most attractive three-year-old fillies in the country today. There is no telling what price this daughter of Alibhai — Continued on Page Thirty-Seven I REFLECTIONS By NELSON DUNSTAN Continued from Page Forty B adoir n., by Mahmoud, will bring Boudoir -x., also produced the good filly Flower Bed and My Host. Your Hostess is but one of the many attractive fillies Goetz will offer, another being Helenus, a two-year-old daughter of Priam XL— Flag Lilly, by Reigh Count, and Tittle Tattle, a two-year-old by Roman — Tattle Tale, by Questionnaire.
