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Virginia; . 1 By NANCY LEE- Jeanne Barnes Inspects Yearlings First Stop Is Llangollen Farm Imported NearcoColtatSpringsbury MIDDLEBURG, Va., June 29. For some years Mrs. Jeanne Barnes has been working on the list of Virginia-consigned yearlings who will be sold at Saratoga, her job being with Fasig-ripton Company. However, with all firsthand information about them, she never did get to see any of the youngsters until they were unloaded at the Spa. Taking a busmans holiday this past week end, she came to the Old Dominion and even though Llangollen is not a consignor this year, the "tour" began with that farm. Unfortunately, Friday afternoons all have the same number of hours and with this one no exception, the trip had to be a flying one. The first stop was at Mrs. Richard Lunns Llangollen with a quick look-see at some of the mares and foals and then a visit to see the Argentine sire, Endeavour II. This big horse has a wonderful disposition and the sight of visitors doesnt mean any change in his usual routine. Back to Route 50 and a short way west is Mrs. Dodge Sloanes Brookmeade Farms: Manager Bill Ballenger took a vacation from the hayfields to show some of s the mares and foals and other "tourists" were there looking as the veteran mare, Omayya, was led from the broodmare barn to the field with her last foal, a good looking chestnut colt by Bryan G. The men at the barn are still chuckling over the fact that Omayya was pronounced barren last year and this spring was sent to Thorncliff Farm. However, Dr. McDonogh called from Thorncliff to state that they had Tetter wait a while until she foaled before going on with the breeding schedule. With such a change in pace, the old lady was returned to Brookmeade and when she dropped this foal, the curtain came down on her matron career. Omayya .was purchased at the Saratoga sales by MrsT Sloan in 1932 and she has now had 17 foals. Of the 16 of racing-, age, 10 have been winners, four of them chalking up stakes winning efforts. The mistake in her being barren last year has just about been sifted down to the fact that her stakes-winning daughter, Pomayya, was examined at the same time and the names confused. From the broodmare barn we went over to the neat, compact stallion barn where More Sun, Sky Ship and the. teaser, Shadows Pass, are stabled. More Sun now has two crops and manager Bal-lenger is most enthusiastic about his potentialities as a sire. Sky Ships first yearat stud was 1955 and he covered 18 mares. From the barn a side trip was made which had nothing to do with horses but is a project which plays a very important role in Brookmeades set-up. This was a five-acre vegetable garden which supplies the farm kitchen. It even sports a very imposing array of red raspberries. The site "of the Middleburg training center was just a drive through to show where the enterprise would be situated . and then the route lay toward Mrs. Marie A. Moores High Hope Farm at a a Eula so that the visitor could see Gallor-ette upon whom Delaware Park recently i heaped additional honors. She occupies " the largest stall in the barn and carries , her laurels lightly. Her chestnut - filly foal by Discovery makes the trip more .j than worthwhile even if the youngster didnt have such "a famous dam to see. " Four mares had just returned from Ken- tucky and they and their foals had all : shipped well. Saturday morning the trip was con-e tinued with a visit to Mrs. George P. S Greenhalghs Springsbufy Farm. En route ! the main road was skipped and the pace i at r set over the dirt road which inns parallel i is l with the Shenandoah River. With the out-Lt of -state car following, the results indicated that Mrs. Barnes must have felt a great i deal like the major track jockey who rides J at the half-milers for the first time. The s 11 five Saratoga-bound yearlings were looked I over with special interest in the recently imported Nearcc Ash Plant bay colt and t, the Royal Charger Pin Up Girl colt who i, was brought over last year as a weanling, . g t, Rain or no rain, the morning was de e speeding by and Tyson Gilpins Kent-h mere Farm was the next and final stop. Gilpin handed out the cards so that one d could indicate thereon the yearling d selected to bring the highest, price and D. the second highest, as well as the two i, choices for the best race horses. This d year he has added a copy to the original d card so that the "selector may retain a to ;o memo of his or her selections after the h winners are announced. The brown colt of f by Pavot Gaylo really catches the eye, being x well developed individual, bat, ! i i i s I . each person is free to make his own choice. At the broodmare barn we saw a chestnut colt by Orestes ni. Gaylo who is a full brother to the yearling Kent-mere sold last year and who is now in Colin "Sandy" McLeods barn. The mare is in foal to Beau Gem. The six mares sent to Kentucky are all in foal; Te-deema to Princequillo, Moon Magic to Citation, Damaged Goods to Sun Again, Fleck to Roman, Fuss Button to Shutout and Surosa to Pavot. The latter mare now has a brown filly by Endeavour II., and Tedeema has a chestnut colt by Beau Gem. Fuss Buttons first foal is now a yearling and is a bay filly by Bernborough. She was at the red brick barn where we also saw a brown filly yearling by Orestes III. out of the famous old mare, Never Again DT. This latter filly will be raced and brought back to become a member of the Kentmere broodmare band. Virginiana Four Virginia-breds raced into the winners circle at Delaware Park last week. The first one was Companas Stables homebred Besomer, a two-year-old brown colt by Double Jay Little Martha, Rappahannock Stables homebred three- year-old bay gelding ARadac Boling- broke Activity was the next to chalk up a winning effort, and then the three-year- old bay filly Quite Fancy Black Gang Whimsical. She was bred by Mrs. R. A. Randolph and is the coldrbearer for Mrs. F. Moon. Following her into the magic circle was Mrs. Royal Firmans Black Frost, a two-year-old chestnut colt by Pavot Nuit Noire, who was bred by Daniel Van Clief s Nydrie Stud and bought by his present owner at Saratoga last year. Black Frosts sire, holds the record for the five and one-half furlongs course at Delaware and, while his sons time was a bit slower, he turned in -a good race. Nydrie is consigning a bay filly this year to Saratoga out of the colts dam, and this filly is by Ambiorix. While at Delaware Park the news came in from Aqueduct that another Virginia-bred, Getthere Jack Bimelech By Sea , Was continuing his winning ways for Lily-Ann Stable. The Morven Stud-bred juvenile had jjusad4e,d, the Tremont Stakes to his -accomplishments.
