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— j Virginia By NANCY LEE Happy Buckie Colt Grand Champion Alquest Filly Judged Best of Class Horsemens Show Well Patronized TJPPERVILLE, Va., June 1— Not too many Saratoga-bound yearlings turned out for the annual Virginia Horsemens Asso ciation Show of thor-oughbred yearlings held at the Upperviile Horse Show grounds on May 29. However, the four classes were not lacking in number ■of entries and the eventual grand and reserve champions are in the brackets of "not for sale" on the champion and reserve will be sold privately or at Garden State. "Winning both the colts and geldings sired in Virginia in the open event for colts and geldings and then being pinned champion colt, John S. Pettibones good looking liver chestnut colt by Happy Buckie — Good Sulka, went on to be pinned grand champion by Judge John Bell, in. of Jonabell Stables in Lexington, Ky. The colt was first shown by his breeder-owner, Thomas Taylor of Lincoln, Va., at the Baileys Cross Roads show when he not only won the yearling class but also changed owners, Pettibone purchasing him. Taken to the Loudoun Hunt show and the Fairfax Show, the latter the day prior to the breeders event, the colt picked up two more blues and then swept the deck at Upperviile. His sire, Happy Buckie Happy Argo — Mordawn, stands at Tom Caulks farm near Aldie, Va. In the filly division, Judge Bell placed Mrs. C. M. Greers homebred bay filly by Alquest — Heaven Hill at the head of the line in both filly classes and captured the tri-color. Brought out for the final judging, she was pinned reserve grand champion behind the Happy Buckie colt. Her dam was bred by Mrs. Greer and after winning at 2, 3 and 4, Haven Hill joined the broodmare band where she has produced the winner Heaven Sake. "While judging the two colt classes, the judge placed a bay colt by Black Gang — Tellemoff, owned by Dr. A. C. Randolph and this colt was the eventual reserve colt champion. Among the fillies, Mrs. A. C. Randolphs bay filly by BJack. Gang-Sweep- Miss was second in the fillies sired in Virginia and Nydrie Studs chestnut filly by Sun Again — Morning was second in the open filly class. These two were led before the judge and the reserve filly award went to Mrs. Randolphs homebred. The show this year drew the largest crowd and the smallest class numbere"H 15 entries actually showing. Following the first colt class, the rain fell and the 30 odd entries in the last class braved the elements to come before the judge. Out of the four classes, the "first and second winners in three events were by sires standing in Virginia! Happie Buckie; Alquest, standing at Taylor Hardins New-stead Farm near Upperviile and Black Gang, standing at Mrs. T. A. Randolphs Oakley Farm, also near Upperviile. In the remaining class the winner was by Happie Buckie and the second ribbon went to a Sun Again filly as mentioned previously. Among the spectators was the well known trainer, Max Hirsch, who gave a number of the yearlings a good inspection. One stop he made before the show was to see the yearlings at Mrs. George Harrisons Blue Ridge Farm. Onlookers stood in the ring and .outside in the parking area, among them being Mr. and Mrs. George Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Mcintosh, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Gibb, Mr. and Mrs. W. Haggin Perry, Mrs. D. N. Lee, Harold H. Polk, Mr. and Mrs. Mallory Nash, the Misses Julia and Judy Shearer, trainer Mike Kerr, James P. McCormick, Roland Dawson, Jack Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fletcher, Mrs. Legere, George Garrett, William Pawley, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Phipps, Stephen C. Clark, Jr., Mr. and Mrs."L. L. Voigt, Mr. and Mrs. George P. Green-halgh, Jr., and Alvin Baird. Humphrey S. Finney stopped by Larry MacPhails Glenangus Farm during the morning to see the showing of the yearlings there and then he, Mrs. Finney and Pierre Bellocq came on to the Virginia event. He loked over the sales-bound yearlings at William duPonts Blue Ridge, New-stead Farm, High Hope Farm and George Clarkes before leaving the Old Dominion. Virginiana: Mrs. Eva Hamilton of The Plains, Va., reports that Early Riser, the broodmare by -The Phoenix — At Oncevhom she purchased last December at Newmarket, has dropped a, bay coltby Nearco. Early Riser has been bred to Robert Sterling Clarks Never Say Die and she will be shipped to this country later in the season. Two Virginia breeders, Brookmeade and Mrs. George P. Greenhalgh, Sr., have services to Never Say Die for 1956. ... A. A. "Sandy" Baldwin has been in and out of the hospital in Cleveland, Ohio since the end of April. However, he has managed to see the new foals at his Dundridge near White Post, Va. His Sun Teddy mare, Deep Sky, has a bay colt by Coeur de Lion and all of her foals have been winners as two-year-olds, one placing in the Debutante Stakes. The imported mare, Lei Ilima has a bay filly and Off Again, by Sun Again, dropped a bay colt, both foals being by Coeur de Lion. Off Agains first foal to race is this years two-year-old, On Again, who has not started. The Pharamond n mare, Phellmond has a bay colt by Battle Morn and this mare is a half-sister to the stakes winner Phidias and the sires Coeur de Lion and Imperial Anhut. Sleek, the dam of Sneak, has a chestnut colt by Coeur de Lion. Mr. Baldwins stallion, Coeur de Lion, had only one foal in his first crop but this was last years two-year-old. filly, Fancy Lea who won her first two starts before going wrong in her third outing in which i she finished third. , * |
