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Blue Grass Breeding 244 Summer Sales Yearlings Are Off spring of 90 Stallions By HUGH J. McGUIRE LEXINGTON, Ky., June 1. The selection committee of the Breeders Sales Company has agreed that 244 yearlings are to Be catalogued for the summer sales at Keeneland, a figure representing a reduction of a whopping 120 from the 1956 total. This years total represents the eligible offerings of more than 70 consignors, the indefinite number being due to the interpretation of partnerships. The deep paring of the committee finds a great number of one and two-Iiorse consignments but no less than 90 stallions are represented. The influence of imported stallions is obvious with 23 of them listed as the sires of 65 yearlings. Additionally, a handful of the yearlings are by stallions who are still abroad. Despite the sharp reduction in the number of sales yearlings it is noticed that a few of them are by stallions who might not, of themselves, have gained selection for their offspi-ing. This situation points out the emphasis that has been placed on quality in the mares. It is always pleasant to report that a top stallion can show good results in iiis first crop of foals and this is what has happened to Hasty House Farms crack racer Hasty Road. "Winner of over a half-million dollars, the fleet son of Roman is the sire of 10 fillies and 11 colts from the 24 mares who conceived to him in his first small crop. Of the other three mares, one is unreported, one is still to foal at Elmendorf, and only one. had the misfortune to have twins. Hasty Road stands at the Crown Crest Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reineman and, as he had a select book of mares, he appears to have capably transferred his successful activities from the race track to the breeding barn. Cherete Wins Sires Produce Stakes Preston Madden, who stands the Australian sire Moondust H. at Hamburg Place, received a good boost for the grandson of Hyperion in a report that the filly Cherete had won the Sires Produce Stakes. Cherete, by Moondust, is not a stranger .to the winners circle, and this was her sev- j enth consecutive tally to make her the glamor filly of Australia. It didnt hurt any, either, that Mighty Moon, who was second in the stake, is also by Moondust,. whose first American foals are handsome youngsters. Breeders in New England are getting a lot of fun out of their youngbut thriving industry, according to John Marcell, office manager of the Runnymede Farm of Peter Fuller at Northampton, N. H. Fuller, a former amateur heavyweight boxer and son of a former governor of Massachusetts, stands Sailed Away, by War Admiral, and Captain Morgan, by Bull Lea. The stable was the leading money winner at Lincoln Downs. Fuller has mares here at Threave Main and at Spendthrift, where Yasum,. dam of Oclirock, is in foal to Nashua. Blades of Blue Grass: Charles Nord of New York, first winner of the Grantland Rice scholarship, and Thomas Templin, second winner of the TRA award, will be guests at the Thoroughbred Club on Tuesday. Both are here as part of their summer training schedule, which includes a period devoted to the breeding industry. . . . Crown Crest is one of the. farms where filly foals dominated the crop. The final score is 17 fillies, 10 colts. ... J. Homem de Mello, stud book director of the Jockey Club of Sao Paulo and operator of a breeding farm near that city in Brazil, was a visitor to study American breeding methods. . . . Swoons Son and Dogoon have a baby sister at the Gay Drake farm. The dam, Swoon, will be returned to The Doge. Thomas Piatt reports a foal by Escadru Pinafore, who is a full brother to Golf Ace. Fillies predominate in the foal crop at the Piatt farm. . . . Calumets foal score totals 32, of whom 18 are colts. Four colts "are by Bull Lea and a like number by Cita-! tion. Three are by Ponder, two by Count; Fleet and one each by Alibhai, Mark-Ye- Well, Sun Again, Our Babu and Nasrullah. : Three fillies are by Ponder, two each by Bull Lea and -Sun Again, and one each by Mark-Ye-Well, Olympia, Helioscope, Citation, Dukes Lea and Alibhai. . . . Dr. James Holloway, R. W. P. Johnstone and Frank Werner were introduced as new members of the Thoroughbred. Club. , . . Bwamazons Wilson winner, Jovial Jove, has a full sister at the farm. .She is by Olympia Whirling Girl, and the mare has been sent to Turn-to. Bwamazons owner, Millard Waldheim, has donated a rug for the television room at the Thoroughbred Club. Leslie Combs H. is a partner with Mrs. A splendid example of the quality of the foals in the first crop of Royal Note is this strapping colt from the young Count Fleet mare, Mallet. The foal is the property of Dan Scott and John 8. Hollister. Royal Note is the property of Tilford Wilson and Carl Houston and stands at Mares Rest Farm of Joe Metz. John W. McMahon in a colt foal im California. The youngster is by Khaled Belle Cain, by Beau Pere. . . . Claibornes Bayou, recent winner in New York, is a member of the illustrious family of the matron Bourtai, who is dam of Banta, Levee, Delta, Sir Boss, SaJaza and others. Salaza left the Claiborne family, and Ira Drymon is offering her yearling colt by Citation in the Keeneland summer sales.
