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r. - .. .,.,,.,.. I m-mmm Virginia By NANCY LEE- Home Breeders to Sell 65 at Spa Plan Cooperative Promotion Idea Training Center on W. F. Hitt Farm MIDDLEBURG, Va., June 20. Thirteen Old Dominion breeders are consigning a total of 65 yearlingsthis year to the 35th r. - .. .,.,,.,.. I Annual Annual Saratoga Saratoga Sales Sales Annual Annual Saratoga Saratoga Sales Sales to be held August 8 through August 12. Five sires are represented by three progeny each; Bimelech and Errard by three colts each, Pavot and Royal Charger by two colts and one filly each while Sun Again s get will be two fillies and one colt. Some Chance, Case uase Ace Ace and and Beau Beau m-mmm Case uase Ace Ace and and Beau Beau Gem will be listed by two colts each while Polynesian, Mahmoud, Bolero, Your Host and Princequillo will have one colt and one filly. Two fillies each are entered for Fairy Manhurst and Greek Ship. Sires with one yearling each are Nearco, Blue Swords, Hill Prince, Revoked, Pearl Diver, Eight Thirty, Ace Admiral, Watling Street, Bernborough, Knockdown, Goya H Olympia, Ambiorix, Abernant, Eternal Bull, Priam II., Black Tarquin, Spy Song, General Staff, Rose-mont, Noor, Niccolo Dell Area, Requested, Pictor, Easy Mon, Double Jay, Roman,! War Admiral, Billings and Miche. Tyson Gilpin, whose Kentmere Farm will sell on Monday night, is working on cooperative promotion and publicity for all the consignors that night, building up the idea which was started some years ago with that sales night being called the "Horses for Horsemen" night. In this group are the breeders of Battlefield, Cigar Maid, Combat Boots, etc., while the newcomers to, the sales area are Mrs. C. McGhee Baxter, Rigan McKinney and Harry S. Middendorf, the latter having the only Hyperion colt to be offered. The Board of Zoning Appeals of Loudoun County, Virginia, has approved the building of the horse training center on part of the William F. Hitt farm. Headed by Paul Mellon, the training centers construction will begin with building a stable for horses of Mrs. T. A. Randolph and Arthur White and leasing the present stable to Mrs. D. N. Lee. A seven-eighth mile, 50-foot wide training track will be constructed and the building already in the area will be used to house persons working at the center. If present plans can be carried out, work is to begin on the site around July 10. Four broodmares have been returned to Tyson Gilpins Kentmere Farm near Boyce, Va. and are definitely in foal to Citation, Shut Out, Roman and Sun Again. The veteran Teddy matron, Te-deema, is in foal to Princequillo. If the latter foal should be a filly, she will be raced in the Gilpin colors and then retired to the broodmare band. Virginiana There is a share on the market for the syndicated stallion, Alerted. .. . Third Army, winner of The Maryland Hunt Cup in 1953, has a full sister who is a member of the broodmare band at Janon Fishers The Caves, Eccleston, Md. . . . Catamaran Swashbuckler Trim Rigging has a bay filly foal by Hunters Moon IV. and has been bred back to him. Dive, A. T. Schneizers bay gelding by Tail-spin Victory who won over six furlongs at Delaware Park on the 13th, has a half sister at the Fisher farm, she being a chestnut filly foal by Hunters Moon IV Sagamore Farms schedule is fast settling into summer routine with the breeding season just about completed. Boarding mares will soon be shipped back to their respective woners or farms while visiting Sagamore mares will be returned to their Maryland quarters. Native Dancer and Loser Weeper enjoy daylight outings in their paddocks since turning out Sagamore sires at night has been stopped. At the moment Loser Weepers paddock is being repaired so when Discovery returns to the stallion barn, the younger sire occupies the front paddock. This is just a temporary arrangement as the "front seat" has always been allotted to Discovery. The Glenwood Race Course at Middle-burg, Va., was a turmoil of activity this past week end. No hunt races were in progress, although D. M. "Mike" Smith-wick utilized his knowledge of the course to warm up a junior hunter. Junior ,riders and pony breeding classes took over the three days, and gTalld champion of the latter division was Mrs. J. Austin duPonts Liseter Bright Light. The David D. Odells ef Malvern? Pa., were repre- sented also, as their Storm Peak was reserve champion in the cross-bred pony breeding division. Mile. Lorette, the five-year-old mare by Lovely Night Gallorette, has been returned to her breeder-owners farm near Middleburg, Va. Mrs. Marie A. Moores colorbearer accounted for the Gallorette Stakes at Pimlico last fall, was hurt, in her first outing this year at the same track. Striking the side of the starting gate. Mile. Lorette hurt her side and stifle and will be roughed at High Hope Farm for some six weeks before being put back into training. As W. Smithson Broadhead has been commissioned to paint the daughter or Galiorcttej he will begin with Mile. Lorette, working on the others" as tfiey rg- tire from racing and return to the farm.
