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: — _____ _— I : _HrV | I ■ m I j ; ► 1 ♦ j irginia By NANCY LEE | j Five of Nyrdie Sales Yearlings Win; 1 l" Poly-Hi Taflies in First Stakes Out ! : McKinney to Sell Group at Saratoga I I ; MIDDLEBURG. Va.. May 11.— Last year at the Saratoga Yearling Sales M. and Mrs.! Daniel Van Chefs Nydrie Stud consigned : c i , , ; I , and sold 20 yearlings. From this group, to date five have won including Poly Hi whose most recent victory was in the Rosedale Stakes. This was the first stakes outing for this two-year- old daughter of Polynesian — Highfortidies but it was her fourth trip the winners circle in six outings. Nydrie , 1 I l ] I ! I Stud still owned Highfortidies at the time i of the Saratoga Sales and the Jacopo mare had at her side a colt foal by Tom Fool. ■ j However, this years consignment of yearlings , from Nydrie Stud will not include this half brother to Poly Hi as Highfortidies and her foal were sold as a package to ! Henry H. Knight. , With final plans well on the way for the , two-day tour of Virginia yearlings to be sent to Saratoga, Humphrey S. Finney, J president of Fasig -Tipton Co., was in the I j Old Dominion to attend a meeting at Dr. [ Frank OKeefes on May 9. Not one. to I | waste time during any trip, Finney headed for the Charlottesville area to look over i the yearlings at Whitney Stones Morven Stud, Mrs. C. McGhee Baxters barracks and the individual at Nydrie Stud. One of 1 the outstanding colts who will be seen at Nydrie Stud during the tour is a brown colt by Nearco out of the matron Rosy Dolly, she a half sister to Dante. This colt was purchased in England as a weanling and shipped to this country. , A recent shipment from Nydrie was the two-year-old chestnut filly by Daumier — Sugapud, by Sickle. This half sister to My Request was bought at the 1956 Keeneland Summer Sales from the consignment of Idle Hour Farm. She was shipped to Belmont to join three other horses whom the Van Cliefs have in training with Jack Skir- ; vin. They also have four horses in training with J. P. "Doc" Jones who is currently at Pimlico. As a former top amateur rider between the flags, Rigan McKinney was an interested spectator at this years running of the , Maryland Hunt Cup and as a breeder for j the yearling market, he was keen about his consignment which will go to the Spa , i this August. In his broodmare barn is a ! | I ■ j ; i j ■ , ! , , J I j [ I | i 1 , ; , j , i ! brown filly foal by Native Dancer out of the imported matron, Fleur Bleue. she the dam of the stakes winner Blue Choir. The daughter of Deux pour Cent — Bluette has a yearling colt by Tulyar but this individual will be seen in L. S. MacPhails Glenangus Farm consignment. Fleur Bleue was bred to Roman. McKinney started selling at Saratoga in 1955 and from his first group came the filly Prophets Bell who accounted for the Rosedale Stakes in 1956, thus a Maryland and a Virginia breeder have sold the win-1 ners of the last two runnings of this filly stakes. The dam of Prophets Bell, the Blen-I heim II. mare and Two Bells, does not have a foal this year but she has been bred to the Italian champion, Daumier. A * » A comparative newcomer to the Blarney Farm broodmare band is the stakes-winning Brookmeade-bred OAlison. This daughter of Rosemont — Swing Time will be represented in the yearling group by a bay colt by Roman this year at her side she has a full brother to the yearling. OAlison was sent to Sagamore Farm where she was bred to Native Dancer. The other two yearlings at the farm are a gray colt by Oil Capitol out of the M. Jamestojvn mare Selen ?a and a chestnut filly by Discovery out of Tatula, she being by Eight Thirty. Selenga has been bred to the syndicated Sailor who is standing his first season at stud and Tatula has visited Mrs. Marion DuPont Scotts stakes winning stallion. Saratoga. Peregrine, whose first foal was a winner and her second foal is the Your Host two-year-old filly Girouette was beaten a neck in the Aiken Trials for her first start, has a brown colt foal this year by Sea Charger and has returned to that stallion. The imported mare Nonsense by Blue Peter 1 has a chestnut colt foal by Petition and has been bred to Hafiz II. This mare is the dam of five stakes winners. There is only one more mare to foal for Blarney Farm this year and that is Say Blue who is in foal to Native Dancer and after foaling she will be bred to Roman. The remaining two bookings for mares are Reigh Diana to Oil Capitol and My Emma «the dam of Sir Ruler* to Your Host. Paul Mellons Rokeby Farm is continuing to add to its racing string and broodmare Continued on Paae Ten j j | | | | | ; j , ] : . ] j I i 1 VIRGINIA By NANCY G. LEE 1 I Continued from Page Nine band. Purchased from A. B. Hancocks Clai-borne Stud was the mare Blue Grass, she i : the dam of Blue Ruler. By Blue Larkspur — i ; Camelot, by Sir Gallahad III., Blue Grass ! ! ] was bred to Nasrullah this year and has j been examined in foal. From the same j breeding farm Mellon purchased the year- | , ling filly by Hill Prince out of Snow Flame. Last year Mr. and Mrs. Melville Church ! II. purchased some weanlings from Clai- j j borne Stud and among the group was a colt by Nasrullah out of Meadow, she by i Bull Lea out of Miss Grillo. This colt has j . now been purchased from them by Mellon. I Also sold by the owners of North Cliff I Farm was the two-year-old chestnut filly j Veritas. This filly is by Discovery from the ! matron Motto, she by Sir Gallahad ni. A j stakes winner, the now defunct Motto at stud produced the stakes winner Mr.. Trouble and Small World. The "eldest" of the mares at Mrs. George P. Greenhalghs Springsbury Farm is Te-j deen, a daughter of Teddy from the Ulti-i mus matron, Immortelle. A consistent producer of winners, including the stakes winner Ikes Jeep, Tedeen this year dropped a bay colt on May 2 by Your Host.
