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Blue Grass Breeding i Withholding Fillies From Sales Healthy for Future of Racing RacingBy By HUGH J McGUIRE McGUIRELEXINGTON LEXINGTON Ky May 4 There is an increasing tendency on the part of breeders to withhold from the salesring the yearling fillies that could be expected to bring top prices at auction and the practice must be looked upon as a healthy one for the future of the breeding and racing industry Breeders are willing to forego an immediate profit in the expectation that these fillies with impeccable pedigrees will eventually join the farms broodmare bands It may be bad business practice to turn down a profit butit certainly is a great display of confidence both in the individual animal and in the future of the industry when the decision is made to risk the fillies futures both on the race tracks and in the breeding barn against a quick turnover turnoverTo To a lesser degree it could be argued that the breeders are only practicing selfpreservation by withholding their top fillies because of the difficulty and expense of purchasing proven mares or fillies with top race records This practice could provide benefits of an entirely different nature It could tend to raise the averages received at sales because it would influence the presence in sales fastly declined to part with fillies in his celebrated Myrtlewood family Such more recently established farms as Crown Crest are adopting the plan willing to take the risk involved in order to provide for and protect the future Almost always these de ¬ cisions to withhold fillies are made late and are often governed by the sex of the new born foals from the same dams as the yearling fillies filliesHuge Huge Earnings of Eight Almahurst Stallions StallionsMiss Miss Louise Christie and Miss Wilma Pearce the efficient secretaries at the Almahurst Farm of Henry H Knight la ¬ bored diligently to bring up to date the impressive figure of 14978826 which rep ¬ resents the earnings of the get of the eight stallions standing on the farm to April 25 No sooner was this figure set in type than the horses by these stallions began winning races all over the place and the figure soared to well over 15000000 Not the least of the contributors to the increase was Federal Hill the son of Cosmic Bomb who galloped off with the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs and who is still very much in the running for the Derby itself at the time of writing The other Almahurst stal ¬ lions whose get aided in the accumulation of the startling total are Big Dipper II Nirgal Goya II Priam II Djeddah Helio polis and Rippey RippeyA A A A ABlades Blades of Blue Grass It came as quite a surprise to hardboots when Mrs Billie Smith secretary of the National Associa ¬ tion of State Racing Commissioners an ¬ nounced that the New York Commission would celebrate its G2nd birthday on May 9 It had always been thought here that the Kentucky Commission at 51 was the oldest in the nation No doubt Russia had one earlier John A Bell reports a colt foal likely to be a gray who is a half brother toBattlefield The newcomer is by Native Dancer DarkTDisplay and the mare goes to Bimelech A yearling filly by County Delight Dark Display is among the top youngsters Bell will consign to the Sara of more colts which regularly average prices higher than those of the fillies It could also help to raise the averages of sales fillies by the fact that fewer of them would foe available The practice is not new but it is increasing Leslie Combs n has stead toga Sales Urine samples in New Jer ¬ sey must now be taken with the Trenchard ProtectoMark equipment invented and de ¬ veloped by former jockey Sidney Tren ¬ chard who worked hard and long for rec ¬ ognition ognitionTwoyearolds Twoyearolds in the first crop of Crafty Admiral are doing their winning in New York which some horsemen think is the hard way Crafty Admirals services have been oversubscribed since his retirement at the Mares Rest Farm of Joe Metz Mrs J R H Thouron was accompanied by trainer Jim Ryan on an inspection tour of stock in this area and including the pop ¬ ular imported stallipn Royal Vale who stands at Jonabell stables Ryan appeared in top shape following recent surgery Full sisters by the King Ranch stallion BeauMax won allowance races on the same program last week at Churchill Downs They were the twoyearold Margaretta and the fouryearold Brujaria The mare is La Margo by Depth Charge Both win ¬ ners were bred by King Ranch and raced for E H Lane LaneBefore Before leaving for Chicago racing sec ¬ retary Fred Burton left with us first edi ¬ tions of the condition books for Balmoral at Washington and Arlington Park meetr ings The conditions are very attractive to horsemen and most of the trainers who raced in this area plan to compete for the rich prizes The books announce the instal ¬ lation of gooseneck aluminum inside rails on the grass courses at the Ben Lind heimeroperated tracks Trainer Stro ther Griffin will take the Bwamazon Farm twoyearolds to Balmoral and also Etonian who was third in last years Ar ¬ lington Futurity The youngsters include a highly regarded filly by My Request from the Irish Oaks winner Five Spots She has been named Loan Me Five Charles San born will have Bwamazons Jovial Jove and Breakers in New Jersey Bwamazons Farm FarmContinue Continue on Page FortySix BiueGr0ss Breeding BreedingBy By HUGH J McGUIRE Continued from PageTEleven PageTElevenmanager manager Pat ONeill has a good foal score with 10 colts and four fillies It is the Keeneland Association not the Keeneland Foundation that proposes to build four new barns to facilitate the handling of sales yearlings The foundation is the depart ¬ ment whose gifts to charities and educa ¬ tion keep the organization on a nonprofit basis
