News from Virginia, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-31

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News From Virginia WARRENTOWN, Va., May 29. Joseph Roebling has shipped his mare Invoke, by Teddy, out of Appeal, by John P. Grier, to Pine Brook Farm at Warren-ton, where she will be bred to Macbeth. Invoke and the well known mare Boat are believed to be the only two living mares whose offspring include five stakes winners. Invokes stakes winners include Wildlife, Manipur, Harbourton, Admiral Drake and Benbow. A. A. "Sandy" Baldwin, whose Dundridge Farm is at White Post, has the young stallion Coeur de Lion standing there.. Coeur de Lion is the sire of the 2-year-old Fancy Lea. This filly, out of the Dundridge Farm mare Fancy You, made her first start a winning one when she bested the balance of the field in the rain on a sloppy track recently at Wheeling. This filly is the first and only foal of 1952 by her sire. Miss F. Julia Shearer of Meander Farm sends word that the mare Speed Mill, by Reward out of Theia, a half-sister to the sire High Breeze, has been booked to the stallion Imp. Rangoon. Miss Shearer also advises that her mare Sweet Martini, by Pharamond II out of Martinique, recently foaled a bay fiily by the home stallion Thellusson and that the mare will visit the court of High Lea this season. Jouett Shouse, who boards his mares at Meander Farm at Locust Dale, announces that his mare East, by Chrysler TJ, out of Ardan Lass, accompanied by her filly by Thellusson, has. been sent to Taylor Hardins Newstead Farm where she will visit the court of Alquest. East is a half-sister to the stakes winners Mesl and Cinda. Milton Ritzenberg of North Hill Farm at Berryville reports that his mare, Miss Cupe, has been examined and pronounced in foal to Kitchen Police. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shaws John P. Grier mare, Orabi, foaled a chestnut filly sired by Kitchen Police.


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