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i California L By Oscar Otis Kindergarten Coast Mare of Year? Mobile Her Fifth Stakes Victor California Sales Market National HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 29. From here on for a space at least two months, two-year-olds and their younger relations, the yearlings, will command a scope of inter-est never before noticeable in" California. Not only are the two-year-old races and stakes proving up as extremely meritorious ih their own right, especially as compared with stakes for older horses, but there is a erowins awareness that the number of really first cabin broodmares in California is growing at a rapid rate, an item in turn which is bound to band reflected in the Del Mar vendues com August. This feeling was dramatically brought to the attention of all hands last week with the driving victory of Mobile in the Haggin Stakes. Mobile sent turf people checking into bloodlines, and they quickly discovered that his dam, Kindergarten, is, so far as we can learn, the first modern day matron to stand in California who is the dam of five stakes winners and one other foal of stakes class. Kindergarten, owned by Mrs. John D. Hertz of Amarillo Farms, and which, before Mobile, foaled Nursery School, stakes winner of 3,170; Atomic Speed, stakes winner of 7,575; Do Reigh Mi, stakes winner in the East of 3,375, So La Ci, winner of 14 races and 3,860 through 1954, plus First Speed, also a winner of 14 races and 5,480 through 1954 and of stakes class. In general, the production of such an array of stakes winners would be sufficient, in Kentucky, to earn a matron "Broodmare of the Year" honors. AH this translates quite favorably into the Del Mar catalogue, for two of the Hertz-bred yearlings consigned carry the blood of Kindergarten. One is a filly by Count Fleet from her daughter, Day School, a young Alibhai mare, the other a substantial bay colt of Nursery School by Count Speed, thus an own brother to the winner Precocious, who went to the Desilu Stable for 8,000 at Del Mar last summer. On such foundations are the Del Mar sales shaping up. The dispersal sale of W. W. "Tiny" Nay-lor at his Riverside Farm on Monday was entirely solid although the prices were not spectacular. The vendue hinted to this corner, at least, that the sales for the remainder of the year will continue a trend that began more than four years ago, i.e., in the distinct path of even greater selectivity. Some of the top broodmares in the sale, including Bundle, 0,000, and Dixie Lady, 5,000, in all probability will leave the state. These two were obtained by Mrs. M. E. Lunn, the former Liz Whitney, for the specific purpose of matings with En deavour II. Jana, 7,000, and Gold Salute, 0,000, both by Alibhai, and purchased in partnership with Rex Ellsworth, will probably stay in California to be mated to Khaled. In all probability, the two Bull Lea mares will be allowed to foal here to get California-bred status, then will be shipped to Virginia. At least so trainer Charlie Whittingham tells us. But we might as well warn Charlie right now that this procedure will not entitle Mrs. Lunn to California-bred foals and as such eligible to run in homebred affairs. . For there is a clause in the law, which even some California breeders do not seem aware of, to the effect that a foal and mare must remain in the state until Continued on Page Fortf-Fbre California By OSCAR OTIS Continued from Page Seven the foal is weaned in or tier to qualify. The law was designed to prevent, mares from being shipped out of Ihe state for breeding after foaling quite as much as to prevent pregnant mares being sent into this area for foaling. The sale did prove one thing which is heartening and that is that any vendue of consequence in California is now a national affair. "Money" was here from most everywhere, and it was noteworthy that while western bidders did not take home all of the fancy stock, in many instances they were runners-up andor underbidden. And Seattle interests were paying more than ever before for quality stock, the best indication in the world that Northwest breeders are not merely talking idly when they speak of improving their production standards. George Newell obtained one of the: big bargains of the sale when he took a daughter of Menow, Catcbmehow, for ,800. John Finney, by the way, did an excellent job of announcing and we violate no confidence when wc say that his father, Humphrey Finney, is confident the young man will, in about four ycacs, be able to replace him, if necessary, as a top Fasig-Tipton executive. John has a year to go in Princeton and three in the Navy, and, lacking an opportunity at Princeton to study the thoroughbred, he is taking a liberal arts course as being the best to provide him with a broad outlook sc desirable and necessary for one dealing with both horses and people.
