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"—. J 4 Virginia 1 - By NANCY LEE ; First Gallorette Colt Foaled Prophets Bell Proves Bargain Sell Jumper Ricacho to Rouse MIDDLEBURG, Va., May 5.— Gallorette, Mrs. Marie A. Moores famed member of the broodmare group, dropped a chestnut colt at High Hope Farm near The Plains, Va., on April 29. This foal by Royal Serenade is the first colt whom Gallorette has produced. This mare, who was the leading money winning mare when she was retired to stud and then came into the limelight again last year when she toDDed the Delaware Park poll as the champion mare, has had four other foals, all fillies. -Her first was the stakes winning Mile. Lorette by Lovely Night , Galamoud by Mahmoud , Coronet by Citation and her new yearling, a chestnut filly by Discovery. Gallorette now goes to Sagamore Farms Native Dancer. * * * Rigan McKinney whose Blarney Farm at Woodbine, Md., joined the yearling consigners at Saratoga last year, has come up with a filly who will go down in the records" as a "bargain." By Prophets Thumb — Two Bells she by Blenheim II., the filly went for the bid of ,700. Prophets Bells first outing at Bowie was a winning effort and she then went to Jamaica where her next start was in the Rosedale. At the wire the R. N. Webster colorbearer was in front by four and one-half lengths. Back at Blarney Farm there is a chestnut yeraling colt who is by Mr. Busher and from Two Bells and as Two Bells has now produced two stakes winners the aforementioned Prophets Bell and Spanish Cream and breeder McKinney says this colt has a lot of quality, he should be quite an addition to this years yearling consignment. Two Bells does not have a foal this year but she visits Daumier and at the farm are two each of colt and filly foals. The Jamestown matron, Selenga, has a grey colt by Oil Capitol while the stakes winning Rosemont matron, OAlison, has a bay colt by Roman and she returns to that sire. Peregrines bay filly foal is by Your Host and the mare goes to Sea Charger while the Eight Thirty matron, Tatula, has a chestnut filly by Discovery and Tatula is one of the group who makes up Hasty Roads first boobings at stud. Say Blue, the mare who came from the Henry Knight dispersal, visits Native Dancer and the other two mares, My Emma and Reigh Diana, are booked to Your Host and Oil Capitol respectively. AAA Among the steeplechase producers at stud, Capt. J. L. T. Bentleys Lady Errolr ford by Annapolis has a chestnut colt by Knockdown and she goes to Boss. Lady Errolford is the dam of the well known chasing stakes winner, Errolford. From New Jersey, Alison Sterns stakes-winning Tourist Index has a bay colt by Heliodorus and she goes to Armageddon. AAA The pending sale of the timber horse Ricacho, brought in floods of phone calls, but the news was official on the afternoon of May 3. The bay gelding by Roman — Sylvan Song, who had been sold at Keene-land Summer Sales for 6,000 as a yearling, has been purchased by Randolph Rouse, a member of the Fairfax Hunt. The sale was of such recent origin that former owner Mrs. John Burke sold the horse and loaned her colors for Ricachos trip post-ward in the Virginia Gold Cup. His new owners current plans include starting the horse in the Connecticut Cup, the timber event at the Adjacent Hunts race meeting. Trainer D. M. "Mike" Smithwick will continue to train Ricacho.* The Maryland conditioner rode the horse in his first two outings, both of them point-to-points which Ricacho won easily. Then the reins were turned over to A. P. "Paddy" Smithwick who then linished second in the Carolina Cup, came on to Richmond to win easily the Deep Run Cup and scored convincingly in the Middleburg Hunt Cup. AAA While numerous farms have mares still to foal, Milton Ritzenbergs North Hill Farm matrons have finished up the job. Five mares completed the final go-round which brought three more- fillies and two more colts to the farm. Worldly Wise by Bimelech has a filly by Bold Salute and goes to Sky Ship. The Princequillo mare, One Man Show, has a filly by Alquest and is booked to Boss and the other filly is out of Paper Dish by Sir Mill and the darn goes to Brookmeades More Sun, the young sire whose first crop is doing so well in the Continued on Page Forty-Five 1 | VIRGINIA ] k~ By NANCY G. LEE *~ Continued from Page Eight i two-year-old ranks this year, his Encore " being among the stakes winners. The colts are by John Constable out of the imported k mare Run Honey and by Battle Morn out [ of Bobs Gold. Run Honey returns to John t Constable while Bobs Gold is booked to K Eternal War. AAA A Virginian at Laurel on April 28 took a good look at Cedar Farms Concentrator , and at the odds, but trainer Frank Bonsai was not in sight. Concentrator came to the winners circle, having rewarded his backers the neat sum of 1.80. However, his trainer was enjoying a very important! , moment in his life — he had just watched his 19-year-old son, Frank Bonsai Jr. ride Hugh J. ODonovans Lancrel to win the " Maryland Hunt Cup, a feat which he had done with Bon Master in 1927 and 1928. To catch up with trainer "Downeys" record, young Bonsai will have to repeat in next years running of the famed timber • classic. He has scored in Virginia as he won the Virginia Gold Cup on the same horse in 1954. Racing and breeding ranks were depleted somewhat during the running of this years 3ffaryland Hunt Cup. Mrs. Joseph Walker Jr. wasnt worrying about her Rolling Plains Stables consignment to Saratoga as she watched the horses parade postward. Rigan McKinley was handling the starters • SJag. Amory Haskell was taking a postmans holiday, but the man who is always associated with Marylands timber races, Bryce Wing, again had to be absent. He serves as a steward at Laurel. j I
