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; . IN THE BLUE GRASS : By Joe Thomas Keeneland Catalogues Show Get of 108 Stallions to Be Sold New Training Track, Four Barns at Track Fill Long Felt Need To Offer One Royal Charger at Keeneland, Fiye at Saratoga Two Alibhai Fillies Sold by Combs Break Maidens Same Day LEXINGTON, Ky., June 26. The catalogues for the Breeders Sales Companys sale of "Selected Yearlings" came off the presses last week and. are now in the process of being distributed. With the auctions now only four weeks away, interest is reaching . a high roint and already manv of the leading bnvrs have mnrip "scouting" trips to the1 various breeding farms. The index to sires in the front of the catalogue gives a good line on the variety to be offered with 108 stallions represented among the 363 youngsters to be sold. Sure to attract interest throughout the racing world will be how . the first Citations are accepted by the ring-siders. Four colts and two fillies by the great Calumet champion have been catalogued. AAA The new five-furlong training track and four barns, which now are being constructed at Keeneland, should help fill a long felt need for more training facilities here in the Blue Grass. Heretofore, the problem has been particularly acute in the fall when the yearlings being broken at the local course had to move out to make room for racers coming here for the October meet. Then with the fall sales following the end of the race meet, it usually was six to eight weeks before the yearlings could return. AAA Buyers at Keenelands this summer will have only one Royal Charger to bid on, Crown Crests brother to the champion! Happy Laughter, but at Saratoga in Aug- i ust there will be five by the sensational sire of Turn-to. The Aga Khan, William Miles, Springsbury Farm and Tim Vigors, agent, will each offer colts by the imported Spendthrift stallion, while Nydrie Stud will sell a filly. AAA Woodvale Farm and Mrs. W. Alton Jones Goyamo, who was injured in the Preak-ness and thrown out of training shortly i thereafter, is back at Woodvale where he will be turned out for a year. Bob Bennett, Woodvale Farm manager, says the three-year-old son of Goya Mother India did not bow, but rapped the tendon. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Constantin, Jr., prominent owners and yearling buyers, spent a few days in the Blue Grass last week inspecting summer sales entrants. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Combs IT at Spendthrift. A A A Shortly after Ed Metz Roman Heart broke her maiden with a convincing seven-length victory at Lincoln Fields, he was made a handsome offer for the daughter of Roman Hasty Kiss. His refusal was bolstered in her next start when she scored a three -length triumph and clipped two-fifths second off American Byrd and Lea Lanes track mark of :59 for five furlongs. Bred by Metz, the filly was raised here in the Blue Grass at his brother, Joes farm. AAA Last summer Leslie Combs II sold two Alibhai fillies at the Keeneland sales and last . Wednesday they both scored their maiden victories. Royal Hostess, a sister of Your Host who cost Herman Delman 5,000, won at Monmouth in her second try in competitibn; while at Delaware, Prabeau, who cost the Barclay Stable of John McShane 2,500, was victorious in her first trip postward. Roman, who has yet to show his 18 years, Photo by Mike Sirico. MRS. GEORGE D. WIDENER Owns only three mares, but two of them, Evening Belle and Dinen Dance, are dams of stake winners, Evening Out and Islander. this spring got the top race mares How and Quiz Song in foal with one service each early in March. Both were maidens. It took the son of Sir Gallahad III, who stands at Lou Dohertys Stallion Station, only two covers to catch the great mare, Boat. Breeders are becoming more and more conscious of the importance of racing or proven breeding class in broodmares. The consignment that Henry Knight will send to Saratoga in August offers a good example of this as no less than 19 of his yearlings are out of mares which either won stakes or already have produced stakes winners. Gus Owens, secretary-treasurer of the Thoroughbred Club of America, was released from the hospital last week after a serious illness, but it will be several weeks before he gets back on the job full time. Mrs. George D. Widener owns only three broodmax-es, but two of them are stakes producers. Evening Belle is the dam of last years two-year-old filly champion, Evening Out, and Dinen Dance is the dam of the recent National Stallion Stakes winner, Islander. Her other mare, Set Aside, a daughter of Dinen Dance, is dam of the speedy two-year-old winner, Set Cable, who is her only foal of racing age. Evening Belle and Dinen Dance both have yearlings which will carry Mrs. Wideners" silks next year. The former has a filly by Polynesian; the latter a colt by Star Pilot.
