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" — andand■-"■■■ ! "Ku™ JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Keeneland Catalogue Has 382 Listings Get of Nasrullah, Tehran to Be Offered Midwest Tracks Developing Better Circuit Royally Bred Foals in New Beaumont Crop HAWTHORNE, Cicero, HI., June 10. A number of racing men at various tracks we have visited in recent weeks have inquired about the catalogue for the Sale of Select Yearlings at Keeneland the last four days of July. The Breeders Breeders Sales Sales Companys Companys Bill Bill Evans Evans ad- " — Breeders Breeders Sales Sales Companys Companys Bill Bill Evans Evans ad- advises the catalogues will be in the mails "about June 28. A total of 382 have been approved by the committee on conformation and pedigrees; This is less than 50 per cent of the number entered, and the colts predominate as usual, with 222 of that sex considered acceptable and 160 of the fillies. Evans notes that last summer there were 413 colts and fillies catalogued, and the average was ,237. But the small number to be offered this season, and the general uptrend in purse distribution, encourages breeders to think think it it will will be be even even more more remarkable. remarkable. There There "Ku™ think think it it will will be be even even more more remarkable. remarkable. There There were several "outs" last summer, but only two of the offerings that elicited any bidding failed to bring ,000, which is the minimum to cover selling charges this season. There will be no really top-heavy consignments at the forthcoming sales. Claiborne has the largest of any of the 95 consignments, with a total of 26, including a bay Ambiorix colt that is a half-brother to Jet Pilot to be sold in partnership with Nydrie, and five imported yearlings, one of them by Nasrullah. The Chinn consignment of 15 includes a colt by Tehran, sire of this years Epsom Derby i winner, Tulyar. The Breeders Sales Company plans a little mis-"sionary work during the next few weeks, with Mrs. Roy Car-ruthers representing the cooperative organization on the West Coast, and Bill Evans journeying to New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Detroit tracks. The remodelled sales arena will seat 530. It might easily have been constructed on a larger scale, but there is nothing more dispiriting at a sale, race track, or theatre, than rows of empty seats, and the Keeneland arena was built along compact lines purposely, to encourage more spontaneity in the bidding and to keep things moving. The uptrend in play here in the Midwest and the sharp increase in purses and stakes may help to establish a somewhat more travelled "circuit." Lincoln, Arlington and Washington have offered the owners of worthwhile racing material more inducements, and Bob Carey is planning an attractive Hawthorne program. One hears vague reports Hawthorne may consider restoring the weight -for-age conditions of the famed Hawthorne Gold Cup. Some years ago, when it was run under those -terms, the Gold Cup was the outstanding stakes of the Chicago season, and attracted such as Display, Sun Beau, Mike Hall, Crusader, Diavolo, Mate, Plucky Play, Equipoise and Discovery- At Keeneland the directors already are outlining their autumn program, with a possibility the book will be distributed much earlier than usual, soon after Washington Park. Fred Burton tells us it is proposed to offer a ,000 event daily, except stakes days, in addition to the introduction of the 5,000 Alcibiades for two-year-old fillies. We have not seen the conditions of the Alcibiades. But while we are on this subject of the conditions of stakes events, there is a clause in such coveted two-year-old filly features as the Selima, Marguerite and Demoiselle that bothers some racing men. For example, the 1953 Selima closed on May 15. If an entrants sire or dam has failed to produce a winner up to that date an allowance of three pounds may be claimed, if neither has been represented by a winner, five pounds. Years ago, when only a few tracks were in operation, it may have been a simple matter for the breeder to be sure whether the produce of a sire or mare had won up to May 15, but with some 20 recognized North American tracks in operation simultaneously, it becomes nearly impossible, particularly at the larger studs, to verify that none of the progeny of a stallion or mare has won a race. Thus the original nominator may claim an illegal weight allowance, as in the win or lose incident. We doubt if the allowance were abandoned that it would matter very much to the values of these races, and we have a notion clubs offering them may rewrite them. Hal Price Headley has returned to historic Beaumont from •fcew York, and is looking forward to the summer campaign at Arlington and Washington, where he will be represented by a long string of the bearers of his navy blue, white sash. The filly, Papoose, one of the better 1951 two-year-olds of her sex, has been freshened at the farm here, recently resumed training at Keeneland, and is a prospect for Chicagos summer stakes for fillies-and-mares. The foaling season has ended at Beaumont, and. farm manager Harold Fallon reports there are 14 fillies, 11 colts in this new crop. These include a Revoked filly, out of Salaminia, and a colt by the same sire, out of Athenia. Chicagoans may be interested their old favorite, Lithe, is reported in foal, for the first time, to the South American Rico Monte. Lithe won two renewals of Arlingtons Matron, at the expense of such as Bewitch and Wistful, and in one edition ran a spectacular mile in 1:34%. There is not, we think, a more desirable broodmare prospect than is this sister to Menow. She was a very genuine performer from a strong family and is, even to the uninitiated, easily recognizable as quite a lady of quality. Looks very like studies of Jjier ancestress, Selene, one of the fabled names in production. Headley breeds and races horses intelligently and is among the last whose success depends upon some stroke of luck. But 1t is something to chuckle over that the mare, Regal Roman, who founded Beaumont and has left an indelible impress upon American bloodstock, came his way by the flip of a coin. Turf ana: Tom Fool definitely has the Classic as his objective. . . . The Riddle consignment will be one of the largest offered at Keenelands summer sales and number 18. . . . Breeders advocate a shaper graduation of purses, to be more commensurate with the actual worth of allowance horses and high-grade platers, and take the premium off minimum purse performers. . . . Carters Pride, Ohio Derby heroine, will entertain at River Downs. . . . The Top Flight winner, Renew, is a sister to But Why Not, and no longer is a "poor relation." . . . George Wideners Tedmelia is among the few Teddy mares now in production. . . . Tink Veale plans to race his string at Randall Park. . . . Real Delight is within ,000 of becoming BuU Leas thirteenth 00,000 winner.
