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Tour of Virginia Sales Yearlings Starts Today More Than 100 Prospective Buyers on Two-Day Jaunt MIDDLEBURG, Va., June 21. — More than 100 prospective buyers of yearlings at Saratoga this August are heading for Washington, starting point of a two-day tour of inspection of Virginia breeding farms. The tour will begin early Saturday morning and conclude Sunday evening. It has been arranged by the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, the Fasig-Tipton Company and consignors to the Saratoga sales. Approximately 100 yearlings who are destined for the Saratoga sales ring will be exhibited before the members of the tour. Among the stallions who will be represented by the yearlings are Sun Again, Roman, Battlefield, Alycidon, Bimelech, Never Say Die, Princequillo, One Count, Citation, Count Fleet, Hill Gail, Palestine, Ambiorix, Mahmoud, Sayajirao, Hill Prince, Turn-To, Bernborough, War Admiral, Olympia, Nearco, Tulyar, Royal Charger, Case Ace and Aureole. Among those who have accepted invitations to the tour are Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Chenery, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bontecou, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Green, Mr. and Mrs. K3y Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Burch, Mr. and Mrs. A. MacKay-Smith, Haden Kirkpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Crigler, Mollie Cul-lum, Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, "and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kercheval. Also, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey, Maj. Albert Warner, Mrs. Mary Barbin, Mr. and Mrs. William Worth, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Greer, Mr. and Mrs. Morton W. Smith, Stanley Green, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald N. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey S. Finney, Jeanne Barnes, Howard Gentry, Adm. L. L. Hunter, Shirley Payne, Mrs. Arthur Godfrey, W. W.- Stephens and Mr. and Mrs. George Offutt. Also, Mi*, and Mrs. Howell Jackson, Col. and Mrs. John Lyssowsk, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Voight, A. S. Hewitt, Dr. and Mrs. F. A. OKeefe, Mr. and Mrs. George Greenhalgh Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Melville Church, Mr. and Mrs. William Grayson, Cordon Grayson, Mrs. George L. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Gilpin, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin Jr., Mr. and Mrs. George Greenhalgh Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Hardin, Mr. and Mrs. James Wiley .and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bartenstein, Mrs. G. Mcintosh, Mrs. Charles McLennan, Adm. and Mrs. Lewjs Strauss, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Faulconer, Mr. and Mrs. William Schlusmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Arundel, Daniel J. Madden, Mr. and Mrs. James P. Mills, Mi*, and Mrs. Ian S. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. J. North Fletcher and Fred Almy.
