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Emported Nearco Yearling Arrives Colt Out of Ash Plant Will Be Sold at Spa Vendues by Mrs. G. P.Greenhalghs Farm By NANCY LEE MIDDLEBURG, Va., June 11.— An arrival at Idlewild this morning was a bay yeaning coir, oy j Nearco — Asn nani, oy Nepenthe, who was flown over from the Earl and Countess of Harringtons Dooneen Stud, Patrickswell, Co. Limerick. The colt was purchased through David McCall of the London Bloodstock Agency and will be part of Mrs. George P., Greenhalghs Springs- bury Farm consignment to Saratoga in August. We saw this foal last October at Dooneen Stud and also saw Ash Plant. The good-looking gray broodmare was in foal to Pinza and if by chance the mare might not be remembered, her name wont be forgotten ... The Irish pronunciation sounding #like "Ash Blond." Ash Plant started only three times as a three-year-old and her second outing in the Southern Plate at Thurles was a winning effort. Several weeks later she went postward to win the Pretty Polly Stakes, a lV-mile filly event at The Curragh which is next to the two Irish classics as the most important race in Ireland for three-year-old fillies. The second dam of the yearling, Amboyna, was an extremely good race mare and placed in stakes. She is the dam of Antares, the three-year-old colt who was second last year in the Prix du Jockey Club. The third dam, Aurora is the producer of the stakes winner and now successful sire Alycidon sire of the filly Meld, winner of both English filly classics this year . Aurora is also the dam of another good sire, Borealis and of Acropolis who finished third in the Epsom Derby this year. It is interesting to note that Mar-chetta, granddam of Aurora, is also the granddam of Lavendula II. who is in turn the granddam of Turn To, My Babu, Sayani and Cagire II. Use Farm .for Film Background Virginians attending the Belmont Park sales missed the cold in the Old Dominion but ran headlong into it in_Uew York. -Mrs. Dodge Sloan came to the rescue of many by loaning Brookmeade coolers. Among the travelers were the -Melville Churches, George Offutts, Daniel Van Cliefs, James T. Wileys, James P. McCormick, Nick Saeg-muller and the Tyson Gilpins. Belmont Farm, near Keswick, Va., is providing some of the background for the film- Continued on Page Forty-Nine Imported Nearco Yearling Arrives in United States Colt Out of Ash Plant Will Be Sold at Saratoga This Summer Continued from Page Twenty-Nine ing of Edna Ferbers book, The Giant. The shooting should be finished shortly and the Farmington Hunt will also appear in some scenes. This past February Karl Denoit stopped at the office of Nick Saegmuller, field secretary of the Virginia Horsemens Association and wanted to look at farms which might be suitable to be used in the picture. The field secretary took him around Charlottesville, Warrenton, to Brookmeade, Springsbury* and other farms and then later a decision was made to use Belmont. AAA Mrs. Richard Lunns Llangollen Farm near Upperville, Va., now has some 60 horses in training, 23 of them being at Hollywood Park under Charles Witting-ham, 20 at Monmouth with Oscar Mackey and the remainder divided between Mrs. C. E. Adams at Belmont Park and Kent Miller at Delaware Park. Abroad in Ireland, trainer Paddy Pendergast has two Llangollen two-year-olds in training, Ships Colors War Admiral — Fuschia and Italian Mist Precipitation — Lugano. The dams of these juveniles are among the seven broodmares in Ireland and France. Fuschia went to Tabriz this year and Lugano by Nearco was bred to Tehran. Another Nearco mare, Tasca went to Palestine and three mares went to France where they were booked to Sonny Boy. The latter mares are Lala by Mahmoud and the two Endeavour II. mares, Annasteena and. My Endeavour. As previously reported. Red Stamp the dam of Porterhouse was bred to Tulyar. This fall Red Stamp and her foal, plus other Llangollen weanlings, will be shipped to this country to be brought back to Virginia. Now »at the farm is a good looking brown yearling colt by Palestine out of Red Stamp. News from the farm at the moment concerns Fichu by Colombo, she the dam of Mister Gus. .Bred to Endeavour II., she has been checked and is in foal. Mares who were sent out of state to be bred are Wisteria by Easton and Repent by Jack High who were booked to Rex Ellsworths Khaled with Filet -a full sister to Porterhouse going to Roman and Faint Hope by Endeavour II. visiting Daumier. Faint Hope and Repent are half-sisters, being out of the Pilate mare, Pilates Wife. Virginiana — A recent Visitor to Old Dominion breeding farms was Joe Dever, a member of the Horsemens Journal staff. He has been in Kentucky and Maryland , was the next stop after Virginia . . . The executive committee of the Virginia Horsemens Association will hold its meeting on June 17 at the Fauquier Club, Warrenton. . . . Surviving his ordeal as judge of the recent VHA yearling show, John Be4ll and his wife toured Brookmeade, Newstead Farm and North Cliff Farm with Nick Saegmuller before going on to Daniel Van Clief s Nydrie Stud , . . Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Charles B. Lyman have a chestnut colt foal by Northern Star — Sprint and the mare has been bred to Occupy. Their Easton mare, Rush East, has a brown filly foal by Your Host and will not be bred this season, staying at the Lymans Maui Meadows, West Chester Pa. . . . Harlan Blizzard and Karl Koontz recently purchased the Flares mare, Dorothy T. and bred her to Rough NTumble. Dorothy T. has a bay colt foal by Colonel Mike.
