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Vigors Reports News From Emerald Island Continued from Page Two performer, has just missed top class honors all season. If response from other European countries is as keen as that from Ireland, the 1953 running of Laurels International is going to be quite a race. We would, however, recommend the Laurel executive to step up last years coordination of traveling arrangements from this side. Confusion reigned sublime for several days last fall. A recent American visitor to the Emerald Isle was a leading lady of the American turf, Mrs. Dpdge Sloane. .We had. the pleasure of conducting her on a lightning tour of some of the principal stud farms and, if Mrs. Sloane enjoyed our company half as much as we enjoyed hers, then a rattling good time was had by all. It did not take us long to discover that we were in the company not only of a very charming lady, but of an expert judge of horseflesh, and we therefore welcomed Mrs. Sloanes enthusiasm over Palestine, whom we have always considered as one of the best-looking stallions in Europe. Ushered into Royal Chargers box at the National Stud, the mistress of Brookmeade tdbk one look and then turned to us with amazement in her eyes and asked the one question to which Irishmen find it difficult to give a plausible answer, "Why did you let him go?" To pass from the mature curve of Royal Charger to the still race horse like lines of Tulyar is inevitably something of an ante climax, but we have little doubt that if our visitor had been offered the chance of taking one or the other back to her stud farm, she would have found it hard to choose Tulyars racing record in preference to Royal Chargers appearance and proven stud value. We believe that of all the horses Mrs. Sloane saw during her two days in Ireland the one which she would most like to have consigned to Brookmeade was the bay filly foal by Prince Chevalier out of the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks winner, Masake, which she was shown by Nesbit Waddington at the Aga Khans stud. We were inclined to agree with her choice. Blarney: Other recent trans-Atlantic visitors to these shores included Neil McCarthy, Maurice King and Raymond Guest. . . . We enjoyed a day round the country with the latter, who stood in Royal Chargers box and just looked and looked and looked before coming out of his trance with the verdict that, "Hes just about as good a looking stallion as I have ever seen." ... He also admired Michael Collins two stallions, The Cobbler and Solaway. . . . McCarthy bought Michael Collins two stallions, The Cobber and Solonaway. McCarthy bought a very well-bred filly named Finn Calma, by Fair Trial out of Valiant, by Bahram, out of Trustful . . . King took a real liking to the progeny of Mrs. E. J. Kings stallion, His Slipper. . . . Both Chamier and Sixpence are out of Panorama mares. . . . There is a scarcity of this fast Orby blood in America.
