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— 4 .___„, RACING FOOL — The Blue Grass stakes winner worked nine furlongs in l:574/s in his final major prep for Saturdays Derby. In The Blue Grass Almahurst Will Offer 43 Yearlings On Knights Hi at Spa Vendue By JOE THOMAS LEXINGTON, Ky., May 4.— Witfi the purchase of two fillies from H. F. Krimen-dahl, Henry Knight this week brought to 43 the number of yearlings he will market on "Knights Night" at Saratoga in August. The latest additions are a dark bay filly by Roman out of French Annie and a chestnut daughter of Djeddah and Retaliator. The Roman miss is one of two by the popular Sir Gallahad m. stallion that the master of Almahurst will send to the upstate Spa. The other is out of the stakes winner Theen. French Annie is an unraced daughter of Goya n. and Annie Reigh, who also produced the 00,000 winner Owners Choice and Our Prince, winner last year of the Hyde Park Stakes. Knight also will sell two by Djeddah, the young French import whose first crop made a fine showing last year as two-year-olds. Besides the recent purchase, he has a chestnut filly out of the young stakes producer Thasos, by Mahmoud. Retaliator, already dam of three winners, is a daughter of Snark and Hostility, dam of the stakes winner Antagonism and a daughter of Marguerite de Valois, a sister of Sir Gallahad m. and Bull Dog. The Almahurst consignment to Saratoga this year stacks up as one of the best that Knight has ever sent to the New York sales site. Included are two colts by Citation, a colt by Mahmoud as well as offspring by such populer and successful stallions as last years sire leader Heliopolis, Polynesian, War Admiral and Sun Again. Brownell Combs orange and blue silks first made famous by Sweetheart and later by Myrtlewood and her brilliant brood — Miss Dogwood, Durazna, Sequence, Bella Figura, etc. — are to return to the turf. Combs, who retired from racing when Bella Figura broke down a couple of years ago, has turned the colors over to his nephew,! Leslie Combs II. The silks, as in the past, will be carried j ► ■- only by a select few fillies which the master of Spendthrift Farm plans to retain as future replacements for his broodmare band. One that Combs already is looking forward to seeing under the orange and blue two years from now is the Heliopolis filly his grand mare Boudoir n recently foaled. Boudoir II, who to Alibhai, another son of Hyperion, produced Your Host, now is 17 years old. Combs has sold her. previous daughters, but because of the mares age intends to keep this- one and any others she may produce in the future, The Spendthrift owner also. plans to continue his policy of retaining fillies from the Myrtlewood family. * * * Trainer Bill Finnegan last week purchased the two-year-old Bugle Call at private treaty from Claiborne Farm for the Murcain .Stable of Mrs. Clint Murchison and Mrs. William Cain. The youngster has yet to face the starter and is by Better Self out of Yellow Ribbon, dam of the stakes winner Loridale. Finnegan will take the colt to California when he returns west with Murcains Blue. Ruler and Jeans Joe. AAA Blades of Blue Grass: Bray Melody, Crown Crests prize broodmare, has been pronounced in foal to Native Dancer. The Irish matrons first four foals all won stakes and .one was the champion Happy Laughter. . . . Since it began operations in 1944, the Breeders Sales Company has sold 13,644 thoroughbreds for 5,600,525. The overall average is a remarkable ,075. . . .. Charlie Asburys Devie, the first mare bred" to Mrs. J. R. H. Thourbns Royal Vale when he entered stud this year at Jonabell Stables, has been pronounced in foal. . . . Calcutta, a two-year-old half-sister of the Nearco colt Leslie Combs II will sell this summer at Keeneland, recently won the Westminster Stakes at Epsom. . . . Rocket Gun, dam of High Gun, recently foaled a" half-brother of last years Belmont Stakes winner. She is owned by Kellar and Paul Little and Cary C. Bosh-amen
