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Virginia By NANCY LEE To Sell Royal Charger Filly at Spa Van Clief Buys Her From Vigors Pick Runabit Top Mare at Show MIDDLEBURG , Va., June 15. — An arrival at Idlewild on June 13 was a bay filly by Royal Charger — Lily Marlene, by Mahmoud. ungmaiiy consigiieu uy T. A. Vigors, circumstances prevented his being a consignor to Saratoga this year and the filly was purchased by Daniel Van Clief and will be part of his Nydrie Stud consignment to the Spa. Lily Marlene includes among her earnings the winners share in the Chesterton Nursery and this stakes winner is the dam of the stakes winners, Lillibullero and Miss Arn-hem, and the winner Flighty Eyes. The second dam, Bulolo by Noble Star has produced the stakes winners Bebe she the dam of the stakes winner Calstone, Bulo Boda and Bottleneck, as well as the winners Bees Knees also dam of the stakes winners Bees Gorse and Besides and Budge, Blackshore and Thomasina and.the producer Akimbo. Pussy Willow the third dam is by Polymelus and was a winner at two. She is the dam of the stake winners Rolling Rock" and Jack Wood, the winners Boston West, On Tow and Pentosan as well as the producers Tweets and Olive Oyl. Last year Vigors consigned a boy colt by Royal Charger— Lovely Lass, now registered as Ware The Road. This youngster brought Cain Hoy Stables high bid of 5,000. Virginia breeds have no track on which to prove tlie merits oi tneir nome-Dreas but one Touting which is well filled and well attended is the Thoroughbred breeding division of the oldest horse show in the United States, the Upperville Colt and Horse Show. June 11 was the second day of this show and the Thoroughbred mares were the first to enter the ring. The winner was Morton W. Smiths Runabit Wait A Bit — Tellemoff who was bred by Dr. A."C. Randolph. Her career has been in the show ring and she was the top yearling of her year and also the top two-year-old in Virginia. As a three-year-old in 1950 she was champion of her division at the Upperville Colt and Horse Show. Runabit was bred this year to the well known sire of jumpers, Llangollen Farms Bonne Nuit and thus joins the broodmare group at the Smith Farm. Already there are three other Thoroughbred mares. The maiden mare Ballet Swing and Sway — Boat was a winner of eight races last year-and she is now in foal to Loser Weeper. Hekista, a half-sister to the now retired chasing stakes winner, Genancoke, has a bay yearling filly by Royal Visitor and **»-«s year- dropped a chestnut colt by Nord She has been bred to Apache. The ve matron, Kristin by Ksar, has beer to Fairy Manah. She is the dam ; £?s§o, gray gelding Ksar dEsprit later £ I? go?: White Stable who was shown so succflH| fully by the Canadian rider, Miss Shiil Thomas. The thoroughbred homebred gray colt owned by F. E. Mars, was selected By Kievs Umber, the colt is out of the Coq dEsprit mare, Gail H. This is her first foal and she was bred this year to Mrs. Marion duPont Scotts Heliodorus. Also at Marland Farm is the imported mare Anemone by Oleander. She has a bay filly by Djeddah and was booked this year to C. T. Chenerys Prince Simon. Fifteen fillies lined up for the Thoroughbred yearling filly event. Judge Rigan McKinneys nod went to another homebred, Herbert B. Shaws Miss Rookie Kitchen Police — Oraibi . Formerly Continued on Page Forty-Two Virginia By NANCY G. LEE Continued from Page Seven owned by H. P. Metcalf, Oraibi has had r four foals to race, three of them being winners; Pretty Nymph, Lucky Hit and Telecast. She has a chestnut colt foal by Kitchen Police and has been bred to Paul Mellons John Constable. Thoroughbred colts or geldings numbered 17 and the winner was Mrs. George Harrisons Blue Ridge Farm entry, a bay colt by Hill Prince — Minnora. This colt is part of the Blue Ridge Farm consignment to Saratoga. His half-brother by Eight Thirty was sold to Edwin J. Gould for-520,000 at Saratoga last year. The final 1 breeding event was for Thoroughbred two-year-olds and Judge McKinneys ; choice was the well grown bay gelding Cameda, by Ginoca-Alameda, she the dam of the winner on the flat, Dover Horn *K.. Tatnac Y AfnPnwtnlr Cameda was bred by William Cockerill. Cameda has a three-year-old full sister, Ginala who is in training and owner McCormick hopes to get both the colt and the filly to the track later in the season. Virginiana — The brown colt by Boss — Bee Busy who was second to Blue Ridge j JFarms Hill Prince colt in the yearling class 1 at TJpperyille, will be consigned to the Garden State sales by his owner-breeder, James L. Wiley . . . Eolus, the eight-year-old chestnut gelding by Battleship — Sun Flo, she the dam of the chasing stakes winner Sundowner has been retired to a life of ease. A winner on the turf, over hurdle and stakes winner over brush, Eolus was hurt in his last outing in 1953 but finished fourth. His career between the flags started as colorbearer for the late Mrs. C. Sullivan, then he went postward for Mrs. R. G. Woolfe and his next and last owner was L. W. Jennings
