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CTORY and FARM REGISTER ypenons Get Carrying On fell on Retirement to Stud Sired Alibhai Who Has Been Able to Pass On His Genetic Spark to His Sons Daughters DaughtersBy By LEON RASMUSSEN Staff Correspondent CorrespondentContinued Continued from Last Week LOS ANGELES Calif May 1 Hyperion truly a phenomenon in bloodstock reeding Most great sires are considered because they outbreed themselves in ieir ancestors Hyperion has never done lat with the possible exception of his assical daughter Sun Chariot but never aeless his influence is the root of much uality in practically every important thor ughbred country In breeding circles there i a strong thought that an exceptional ace horse who in turn is an exceptional xe will not fire his descendants with the line genetic flame Again Hyperion has roved the exception His sons and daugh ers and their sons and daughters have bloody well carried on Since this is a arochial dissertation permit us to speak of Hyperions son who started all this im ¬ proving the breed in California CaliforniaAlibhai Alibhai was bred by the Aga Khan a foal in 1938 in England but reared in Ire ¬ land Like his sire he is also a chestnut While Hyperion won the Derby and St Leger Alibhais dam Teresina was only a little less formidable on the track this daughter of the Americanbred St Leger winner Tracery being good enough to win the Goodwood Cup and The Jockey Club Stakes Teresina was out of Blue Tit a winnerproducer by the St Leger winner Wildflower out of the stakes winner Petit Blue by the wonderful sprinter Eager from Letterewe by the Irisher Barcaldine It is a pedigree compounded of ingredients producing classic qualities which seem to continue to assert themselves in subse ¬ quent generations generationsAmerican American L Laudy Lawrence bought Alibhai out of the Shehoon Stud yearling sales in 1939 for movie tycoon L B Mayer for approximately 14000 Shipped to America Alibhai showed extravagant speed in trials but after one of them in which whichContinued Continued on Page FortyNine Hyperions Offspring Doing Well on Retirement to Stud StudContinued Continued from Page TwenfySeven TwenfySevenhe he lowered the official mile mark at Santa Anita he bowed in both front legs Thus Mayer at first disappointed was forced to offer this unraced stallion to breeders earlier than expected He was offered for 500 a service at Northridge Farms then later was transferred to Mayers Ferris Farm where he courted comparatively moderate mares while Beau Pere and Hunters Moon IV covered the elite eliteIn In 1942 Alibhais first get hit the tracks and they hit them running War Allies Style Prince and other nifty juveniles re ¬ vamping the mating program at Perris and causing other breeders to beat a path to the Mayer nursery for any untaken book ¬ ings As the years rolled along The Dude Cover Up On Trust Solidarity Special Touch and Your Host heaped attention on this son of Hyperion He was the leading California sire in 1947 48 49 50 and 51 Nationally he was second in 1947 and sixth in 1949 In 1948 at the age of 10 he was sold to a Kentucky syndicate for 500000 to stand at Spendthrift Farm for a 5000 fee Nature does not intend bumper crops every year and so it was with Alibhai In his first year in Kentucky his offspring did not live up to what was expected of mine Spinning Top Magic Lead and them but since then such stars as Deter others have proved he gets class wherever he goes goesLike Like Hyperion Alibhai has been able to pass on his genetic spark to his get and today such sons of his as Cover Up Sol ¬ idarity Lodge Night and Call Bell have shown the power to transmit high racing class More about them and Hyperions sons Khaled and Radiotherapy in California will be discussed here next week
