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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. onginany consignee. rjy 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 t-Vin nrinnprs cV J»rf» 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 the merits of their home-breds but one miting 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 this year- dropped a chestnut colt by Nordlicht. She has been bred to Apache. The veteran matron, Kristin by Ksar, has been bred to Fairy Manah. She is the dam of tlie gray gelding Ksar dEsprit later named White Stable who was shown so successfully by the Canadian rider, Miss Shirley Thomas. The thoroughbred homebred gray colt owned by F. E. Mars, was selected By Kievs Umber, the colt is out of the Coq I dEsprit mare, Gail H. This is her first I 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
