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„ __ . M""fc™ , c ► Blue Grass Report I By HUGH J. McGUIRE Americans Take 57 German Horses Baron DOsten Prefers Athanasius Crop of Johns Joy Reaches Twenty LEXINGTON, Ky., May 23.— Anent the recent decision of The Jockey Club to register in the Stud Book the stallions Nordlicht, Samurai, Samurai, Athanasius Athanasius „ __ . c t t l i i t . Samurai, Samurai, Athanasius Athanasius and Taj Akbar and their foals, Baron Fred dOsten tells us that some 57 thoroughbreds were listed officially as having been taken from the Germans by the American Military Government. Of these, 29 were seized at war loot, including 15 from the celebrated stud, Schlenderhan, Schlenderhan, and and 11 11 . 1 I i t i I 1 : ; - • ! • ; • • j - - 1 - 1 t i 5 . i . _ _ Schlenderhan, Schlenderhan, and and 11 11 M""fc™ from the German military stud farm, Alter -feld. Nine were taken from the Nazi NSDAP Stud and a similar number from private establishments. These latter were paid for and included horses from Erlenhof and Waldfried studs. It was from Erlenhof that the German Derby winners, Athanasius and Nordlicht, were secured and, of the four who have been given clearance, dOsten much prefers Athanasius. He points out that Athanasius is the sire of Ticino, who is generally regarded as the best sire in Germany. Ticino is the sire of the German Derby winner, Neckar, the only German to win a good stake in France, and of Nieder-laender, also a German Derby winner and fourth in the Washington, D. C, International at Laurel last year. Incidentally, Niederlander is preparing for another try at the Laurel classic. DOsten relates that when the Germans seized many of these horses from the French, they demanded their papers. Helpless to refuse, the French stamped the papers as having been given on military impressment, the equivalent of at pistol point. Later, when the Americans seized the horses from the German administration, the latter used the same procedure for some of the horses. In the large group were many valuable offspring of celebrated mares, including two top French stakes mares, Patoche and Take It Easy. DOsten feels that many of these mares, whose whereabouts are difficult to locate, would make invaluable additions to American breeding. Charles Alexander Kenney tells us that with the arrival recently of a bay colt for T. C. Melrose from the good racer and producer, Mel Van Orman, and a bay filly from C. E. Buckleys Tiens, the first crop of the young stallion, Johns Joy, has reached twenty. Johns Joy is the property of Ken- ney and John Kinard, of Brickeys, Ark., and the crop is nicely divided into 11 colts and nine fillies. Says Kenney, "Every person who reported a foal by him has expressed entire satisfaction and several of those who have seen the foals on my farm were of the opinion that a colt by him is the best-look - ing youngster I have. I am not disposed to disagree with them, although I have foals by Noor, Citation and other prominent stallions." The surprise is that Kenney is not trying to sell seasons to Johns Joy at the moment, for his book is full for this year. The point we are trying to make is that this may be encouraging to owners of stallions in other than the top bracket, "unavailable" groups. Blades of Blue Grass: Donald C. Hat-ton son of columnist Charles Hatton of this paper, received the Kiwanis Club Trophy, awarded annually to the out- standing senior student academically at Transylvania College. . Arthur B. Han- cock Jr., informs us that he has now sold privately all of his yearlings that he wanted to sell. He retained for train- ing and racing two colts by Ambiorix, two by Double Jay, one by Jet Pilot and fillies by Nasrullah and Princequillo. There are two foals in the first crop of Hill Prince at Claiborne and Hancock reports them as first class. They are fillies from Winging and Bourtai. . .Ira Drymon was married Wednesday to Mrs. Bush Allen Gorman. After a wedding trip to the West Coast, the Drymons will make their home at his Gallaher Farm on the Russell Cave Pike. Lesie Combs n. of Spendthrift Farm has decided to leave the stallions Royal Charger and Norseman overseas until the first of September to avoid the summer heat here. He gets possession July 1. Combs is understandably elated that the Royal Chargers, Happy Laughter and Sea Charger, won the One Thousand Guineas and the Irish Two Thousand Guineas, respectively, Continued on Page Eight Blue Grass Reports Continued from Page Two since his purchase . . . Col. Phil T. Chinns reminiscences of colorful, exciting adventures experienced during a past era of the turf and delivered at a Thoroughbred Club n2 9f infirta Jc * e« o u i "d o t r* ; ! • luncheon, are still the talk of this town. Brimful as they were of rollicking episodes bordering on the swashbuckling and bizarre, it is still wondered if the best have been told. The colonel admits that, like Durante, he has a million of them... A Preakness party from here included Owen Campbell, Alex Gordon, Dixie McKinley, Joe Keith and Ernest Thompson, which is quite a quintet. a 0/ £ 5 JC • I t£. Si K a c ?r 9 -a itf
