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PADDOCK PARADE By JOE THOMAS LEXINGTON Ky May 1 To maintain a well integrated stud it is 7 for breeders to add new blood continually This is done through importa ¬ tions private pur chases or often through the yearling sales The private breeding establish ¬ ments whose racing stables usually are made up of homebreds make frequent forays into the yearling mar ¬ kets for fillies which it is honed will show enough on the race course to earn a place in their broodmare bands or colts whose backgrounds suggest future sire potential potentialGreentree Greentree Stud made one such purchase last summer when at Keeneland it paid 25000 for C A Kenneys chestnut colt by Heliopolis Pandora Should the colt make good on the race course he could be a valu ¬ able addition to the Greentree sire ranks since he would offer a good outcross for most of its mares maresNamed Named Gold Box the youngster showed well in his Aiken trials and was favored to win his racing debut last week at Belmont He failed by a neck of catching Walter Jef ¬ fords Cub Scout Ironically his conqueror is by the Greentree sire Shut Out OutA A A A ABrbokmeade Brbokmeade Farms run of 1954 colts at Crown Crest was broken last week when Sunny Dales sister Sunny Vale foaled a filly by Greek Ship Prior to that the Brookmeade mares quartered at Mr and Mrs Howard Reinemans local establish ¬ ment had produced eight straight colts coltsIncidentally Incidentally one of them a colt by Greek Ship Tricks is the only male off ¬ spring of the son of Heliopolis Boat re ¬ ported so far in Kentucky A A A AIn In 1946 when the horses of the late Col E R Bradley were divided among Green tree King Ranch and Ogden Phipps who joined together as a syndicate to buy the racing and breeding stock of the master of Idle Hour Phipps secured a colt by Blue Larkspur Be Like Mom MomThe The youngster named Oedipus failed to do much on the flat but converted to a jumper he became one of the outstanding steeplechasers of recent years Over the jumps he raced for Mrs Phipps PhippsIt It now looks as if Mrs Phipps may have a replacement for Oedipus which also is a result of the Bradley deal It is Ancestor a son of Challedon Bloodroot The five yearold began jumping this year and so far in two tries he is unbeaten unbeatenBloodroot Bloodroot is one of the mares which Phipps obtained when the Bradley horses were divided For Bradley she had produced the stakes winners Be Faithful Brie a Bac Bimelette and By Conscript Her third foal as a member of Phipps broodmare band is Ancestor AncestorHe He was more successful on the flat than Oedipus winning the Discovery Handicap in 1952 But he has a long way to go to be as successful as a timber topper topperA A A A ADr Dr J R Hill points out that among Shawnee Farms 1954 yearlings entered in the Keeneland Summer Sales is a colt bred very similarly to the recent Youthful Stakes winner Summer Tan The latter is by Heliopolis out of Miss Zibby ZibbyShawnees Shawnees yearling also is by Heliopolis His dam Valiente is a daughter of Bull Dog Donita M Donita M and Fairisk the granddam of Summer Tan are full sisters The Nuckols brothers who maintain Hurstland Farm at Midway are very hope ¬ ful for the future of the young Roman stallion I Will who entered stud at Hurst land three years ago agoThe The first I Wills are racing this year and two have shown a great deal of prom ¬ ise His first starter Will See won two races last winter at New Orleans and was second in a division of the Duncan F Kenner Stakes while last week Will Star won his first out at Bowie BowieWill Will Star needed the help of the stew ¬ ards to garner his first purse but he had apparently shown enough in his trials to warrant going postward as the favorite favoriteAnother Another two year old development of 1954 who is being watched carefully by the theContinued Continued on Page FortyNine PADDOCK PARADE Continued from Page TwentySeven TwentySevenNuckols Nuckols boys is Louis Lee Haggin ns Smart Devil The Devil Diver miss who was considered the top juvenile filly of the Keeneland meet was bred by Greentree but her dam Wise Old Owl now is owned by Hurstland She was purchased from the Whitney establishment last fall fallA A A A ALeslie Leslie Combs II was very hopeful that the Mahmoud Durazna filly whom he sold last year at the yearling sales would be ¬ come a stakes winner last Wednesday at Bay Meadows Named Myrtlemoud the 50000 beauty was the trackmans best bet to win the Sub Deb Stakes but the track became muddy and the filly was with ¬ drawn drawnIncidentally Incidentally another member of the famous Myrtlewood brood has entered the broodmare ranks at Spendthrift Bella Figura a stakes winning daughter of Count Fleet Miss Dogwood has been bred to Menow Miss Dogwood and Durazna are Myrtlewoods most famous daughters daughtersA A A A ASixteen Sixteen different sires will be represented by yearlings in Henry Knights Almahurst Farm consignment to Saratoga this sum ¬ mer Although several of them are young and either have nothing of racing age or only one or two crops over half of the 16 already have sired 1954 stakes winners winnersThose Those with stakes winners out this sea ¬ son include Better Self Bimelech Challe don Cosmic Bomb Goya U Heliopolis Priam n Roman and War Admiral Sofarsogood winner of the Fashion Stakes at Belmont last week is the thir ¬ teenth foal from Hal Price Headleys grand old mare Apogee The latter winner of the Fashion herself in 1936 previously had produced two stakes winners Floodtown and Acoma
