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Two Boh, Dam of Miz Clementine, Does Best When Sent to Court of Bull Lea Has Produced Three Fillies v By Noted Stallion and All Have Been Stakes Winners By KENT COCHRAN Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 2. This is a thumbnail sketch of Miz Clementine, possibly the champion Oaks-age filly of 1954 in California, if not in the nation, and her immediate family on the distaff side. It was 22 years ago that C. V. Whitney mated the mare Blessings to The Porter and got a filly foal who was named Two Bob. Two Bob was brought to California as a yearling, was trained here and won her first race at Santa Anita, with "Sonny" Workman in the saddle. The next year she won the Kentucky Oaks and went on to figure in the payoff of several stakes, including the Lady Baltimore, Miami Beach and Phocion Howard Memorial Handicaps. Two Bobs dam, Blessings, was by Chicle and from Mission Bells, a California-bred daughter of Friar Rock, next dam Sanctuary, by the Whitney stallion Broomstick. Mission Bells was bred by John H. Rosseter at Rancho Wikiup, Santa Rosa, and it undoubtedly was her Friar Rock Broomstick blood which recommended her to Major Louie Beard, who acquired her for the Whitney broodmare band. Twosy Two Bobs First Foal Eventually the late Warren Wright obtained Two Bob after she had raced for five seasons. He got the mare in the years when he was changing Calumet Farm over from harness horse production to thoroughbreds. Wright thought Two Bob would mate well with hs new stallion Bull Lea. She did. Her first foal was Twosy, a bay filly who won the Sagamore Stakes and three other races at two and then went on to take portions of the Arlington Lassie, Princess Pat, Matron, Cleopatra and other highclass races for her sex. Two Bob was barren after delivering Twosy, and then, bred to Sun Teddy, produced a chestnut colt foal who amounted to little, though he earned winner brackets. Two Bob apparently was reserving her love and energy for Bull Lea, for two years after Twosys birth came a full sister to that first-born stakes winner. The baby was named Two Lea. Two Lea, of course, became one of the great racing mares of modern history. She retired two years ago with earnings of 09,250, and contributed to her owners tack room trophies gained from victories in the Hollywood Gold Cup, Princess Doreen and Artful Stakes and the Cleopatra, Santa Margarita, Ramona, Vanity, San Mateo and Childrens Hospital Handicaps. After Two Lea, Two Bob "was put to Blenheim H., and the resulting foal, a chestnut colt named Mostest, proved a winner, but never rose to stakes heights. Two Bob failed to conceive the next two years, and then, in 50, she. had a chestnut colt foal by Whirlaway, whom Calumet was then trying to make as great a sire as he had been a racer. This youngster was . named Bob Away, but like all the mares other foals from sires other than Bull Lea, he proved to be only a moderate racer. Then came a third visit to Bull Leas court. The result was Miz Clementine, foaled in 1951. Miz Clementine, like Two Lea and Twosy, is a bay, and it is noteworthy that none of Two Bobs other foals was of that coat color. The offspring she failed to endow with the class of cham-. pions were chestnuts, without exception; it was only to the bays that she gave of her best the bays of Bull Lea. Idiosyncrasy, if it can be so called, was that Two Bobs colt foals were somewhat ordinary racers, while all her filly foals have been high-ranking stakes winners. The mare seems bent ori establishing a matriarchy, a female line. Which reminds that Sanctuary, her maternal great-grandam, had six winning foals, and that hej four fillies were good racers, while the two colts were not. Miz Clementine was blessed with the same remarkable physical attributes as her two sisters. Like Twosv and likp. Two Ta. she is a brawny lassie, big of frame and heavily muscled. Symmetrical and conforming to the highest thoroughbred standards, her outstanding feature must be acknowledged to be muscle. She has a world of it. if ever there was a powerhouse filly, Miz Clementine is that individual. Alongside Lady Cover Up, Frosty Dawn, Crystal Blue, Heather Khal and the other good sophomore fillies on the grounds, she seems a female Samson, one who could herself topple over the pillars that support the temple. Wins at First Asking Miz Clementine started only three timet last year at two, but all efforts were first class. At Arlington Park she won her maiden start by five, and then took the Pollyanna Stakes by two, beating Beanir and Queen Hopeful. In her next start, the Arlington Lassie, she was defeated a nose by Queen Hopeful on July 15. Ben and Jimmie Jones then laid her away ; they had in mind the rich three-year-old stakes offered by Hollywood Park and possibly an excursion to Chicago and New York following the close of Californias big summer season. Miz Clementine did not start again until April 2 of this year, at Bay Meadows, when, obviously in need of a "seasoner," Crystal Blue beat her a head. Two weeks later zhe nosed out the good colt Rolyat at the same track, then was vanned to Hollywood Park In the Goose Girl Stakes on May 19, the big, strapping filly raced head and head with Heather Khal for a half mile, then came away to win easily from Lady Cover Up, who charged up from far in the rear Though Lady Cover Up was going fastest at the end, there was no doubt in the minds of shrewd observers that had the race been a furlong farther, Miz Clementile stil would have won. Summing up, it is our opinion that Twc Bobs youngest daughter, if she stayi sound, will outdo her two famous sisters Twosy and Two Lea. She certainly hai the muscle, the frame, the speed and the spirit.
