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Citation Credited With First Stake-Winning Filly in Carmel Hollywood Nursery Victress Also Initial Foal of Dam, Astrida; Oddity in Mating By JOE THOMAS LEXINGTON, Ky., June 18. Possibly the highlight of the past week for thoroughbred breeders was the first stake victory lor an. offspring of Citation. The feat was accomplished Tuesday at Hollywood Park when his daughter, Carmel, accounted for the 5,000 added. Nursery Stakes. A horse of the calibre of Citation, in a sense, is an accomplishment of the entire breeding industry. Consequently, nil ious that he make good as a stock horse, since it confirms that he was not merely a "freak" and that there is an improvement in the breed. Naturally, "one swallow doesnt make a summer," but quite often its appearance is an omen of things to come. Carmel is one of only four starters so far by the great Calumet stallion, who now has three winners. His first starter, the filly Prize Story, won not long ago after finishing second three straight times, and Newmarket Maid won her second start. The lone Citation starter who has yet to win is the colt Document. But he was fourth in the Golden Gate Futurity in his second outing. All in all, the turfs only equine millionaires start is highly promising, if not sensational. Astrida Bred by Aga Khan Carmel is the first foal ofher dam, Astrida, an Aga Khan-bred granddaughter of Nasrullahs dam, Mumtaz Begum. Astrida got into Citations book maidens were barred because she had been bred the previous season to Migoli and had been barren. Her owner, Neil S. McCarthy, purchased her from Prince Aly Khan. She is by Court Martial out of Bibibeg, a mare purchased at last falls Keeneland sales from the Aga Khan by Darby Dan Farm for 6,000. In a recent issue of the Irish. Field, a columnist writing as bystander, credits the recent dominence of French horses in the Ascot Gold Cup, "the supreme test of stayers," to two factors: 1. The increasing tendency since before the war of the English to take their best three-year-olds out of training after their successes in classic races; and 2. In France they breed and race mainly with the object of producing stamina. Of the 102 consignors to the Keeneland summer sales, 26 are selling at the July auction for the first time. Largest of newcomers consignments is that of Max Glucks Elmendorf Farm, which has en- . tered 15. Mrs. Elizabeth Grahams Maine Chance Farm has consigned six. A partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Leslie Combs IT. will offer five yearlings and Mares Nest Stud, Inc., a new corporation recently formed by John W. Hanes and Combs will sell four. Millers to Sell at Keeneland . Dr. and Mrs. Frank Porter Miller, who j sold the Kentucky Derby winner Count Turf a few years ago at Saratoga, will enter the Keeneland market for the first; time with three youngsters,; including a half sister of Count Turf by War Admiral. The other first-time summer consignors include: Homer Maybrier, S. David Shor, C. F. Morriss, Mrs. R. W. P. Johnston, John L. Allgeier, Mr. and Mrs. Francis F. Bryan m., J. W. Burton, James E. Clay, Elbert Jennings, Howard W: Endicott, A.R.Evans, Mrs. Helen H. Fortune, E. H. Taylor Hay, C. P. Edwards, Jr., C. J. Wade, Tom M. Girdler, Inc.-, Mrs. Mary H. Hunter, Edward L. Stephenson, and Alfred Roberts. A A A Blades of Blue Grass: Joe Gavegnano, Winthrop, Mass., owner, was a Blue Grass visitor this week. The New England baker is one of the regulars each summer at the sales ring side . . . Dr. Frank Porter Miller recently was presented with a gold life-membership card by the directors of the California Thoroughbred Bieeders Association in recognition of his outstanding service as three-time president of the organization . . . Another feather was added to the cap of the Stallion Stations Flushing n. this week when his son Star Rover beat many of the Easts top three-year-old sprinters in the Select Handicap. Last year Flushing n.s daughter, Lavendar Hill, was one of the top stayers among the members of the distaff . . . Bimelech, Depth Charge, Polynesian and Tiger are in a tight race on the list of leading sires of 1955 two-year-old money winners. Khaled and Am-biorix have the most winners -. . Jenny Lind, a three-year-old filly by Norseman who stands at Spendthrift Farm, recently won the Lancashire Oaks at Manchester . . . Leslie Combs II. departed Saturday for Chicago to be on hand for the opening of Arlington Park Monday.
