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I Blue Grass Happenings By HUGH J. McGUIRE Vanderbilt Mares at Scott Farm Assume Tremendous Importance Nasco in Foal Twelfth Straight Year LEXINGTON, Ky., June 20.— As Native Dancer is making headlines for Alfred Vanderbilt, the stables mares are in the process of providing future replacements for the racing establishment. The Vanderbilt matrons have assumed tremendous importance and a glance over those who are at Dan Scotts farm here is all that is necessary to convince that if any sort of luck accompanies the obvious quality of the mares, the future of the rac- ing string is assured. Native Dancers dam Geisha, has as you know, an impudent four-month-old sister to the present champion at her side and is again in foal to Polynesian. Good Thing, dam of Bed o Roses, has at her heel a full sister to that ill-fated top racer and has been mated with Polynesian. Now What, dam of Next Move and now 16, has a Count Fleet filly at her side, was given double cover to that stallion on June 5 and 7 and will rest her case on the outcome. Next Move is in foal to Polynesian. Outdone, dam of the Sagamore stallion Loser Weeper and two other stakes winners in Thwarted and Miss Disco, has been mated with Requested. The Bahrain mare Now and Again, a full sister to Open Question, was barren last season and has been mated with Hill Prince. Pansy, dam of Social Outcast, is reported in foal to Shut Out and the Pilate mare Novice is in the same condition to the cover of My Request. At the Dan Scott farm 29 mares have been examined for pregnancy and 26 have been pronounced in foal including all mares named here and this is the largest number of pregnant mares that Scott has ever had at this time* in a season. Of the 26 believed in foal 17 have passed the second, 70-day examination by Dr. Bill McGee. Four of the six mares of Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr., are reported to have conceived in Rytina to Citation, High Stepper to Cqaltown, Ladyofshalot to Eight Thirty, and Skimmer to Polynesian. High Stepper is a Hyperion mare bought by Mrs. Walker in England and the ensuing foal will have the same general cross as Citation. Mrs. George Harrisons Your Game is in foal to Eight Thirty, and Good Excuse, the property of Californias J. H. Ryan, is in foal to Coaltown. Establishing: something of a record at the Scott place is Breckinridge Longs prolific matron Nasco, who is in foal for the twelfth straight year, although only 15. Perhaps more remarkable is that all of her foals of age got to the races and her progeny included the stakes winners Big If and Lorraine, as well as Eric B., winner in two seasons in England. Five of John Bromleys six mares at Scotts are in foal and these include the Blenheim matron Blenhour, whose mate is Talon. Sicklebush and Golden Maxim, the property of William duPont, Jr., are in foal to Heliopolis, while his Star Galla has conceived to the cover of Greek Song. The Bull Lea mare Blue Blaze is in foal to Ponder. She is the property of Ralph Lowe of Midland, Texas, who recently paid 0,000 for the two-year-old Life Policy from the C. B. Bohn estate consignment to the Belmont paddock sale. Blades of Blue Grass: There are no less than 96 stallions represented by the 321 yearlings consigned to the Keeneland summer sales. Some of the more prominent stallions who are represented by fillies but no colts are Nasrullah, Noor, Challedon, Black Tarquin, Menow, Prince Simon and Unbreakable. Among the stallions represented by colts only are Bull Lea, Blenheim II., Djeddah, Phalanx, Princequillo, Revoked, Rico Monte, Stymie, Third Degree, Alorter and Tiger. . .Charles Asbury is quite taken with the foals in the first crop of Donald Ross Greek Song. . .George Swinebroad tells us that both chairman Wathen R. Knebelkamp and Louis Hollen-bach, of the Kentucky Racing Commission, impressed members of the NASRC convention in Boston. Both are practical horsemen. Dan Scott informs us that Breckinridge Longs fertile producer Nasca invariably makes quite a fuss over her colt foals and is inclined to ignore her filly Continued- on Page Forty-Three Blue Grass Happenings Continued from Page Two offspring. Of her 11 foals only three have been fillies, which points to her wanting it that way. We neglectedto tell you that her current mate is Mr. Busher. Incidentally, Nascas youngest foal to race is the colt Dream of Glory, by Shut Out, for whom Greentree paid 0,000 at Saratoga last year and who appears ready for his first trip to the winners circle... Jim Drymon advises that army worms played havoc with some of the grass in his paddocks, but that they have now departed. Occupation with four futurities to his credit, Occupy with three, and Jezrahel. with one, established a record of seven futurities won by horses from the Crestwood Farm of Thomas Carr Piatt... On Your Own, winner of a maiden filly race at Belmont recently, is a full sister to Assault.
