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I ; ► : 1 4 j New Jersey By PETER COLE * Nances Lad Full Jersey-BrCd Hope He May Stand in State Form Yearling Show Committee , FREEHOLD, N. J., June 22. — New Jersey may add a star of the, turf to its stallion roster next season if current negotiations for the syndication of Nances Nances Lad Lad decide decide in in I Nances Nances Lad Lad decide decide in in favor of his home state. ; Nances Lad is thor-oughly Jersey-bred. The five-year-old horse is the son of Slide Rule out of the Case Ace mare Nances Ace, and was dropped in 1952 at Mrs. P. Wallis Armstrong Jr.s Meadow-view Farms in Moores town town where where his his sire sire town town where where his his sire sire stands. Slide Rule, by Snark, was a winner of nine stakes, winning from six furlongs and up to one and one-half miles. Nances Lads dam, Nances Ace, was bred by Mead-owview out of the Whisk Broom II. mare Comeover. She won 13 races during her career,- including the Hialeah Inaugural Handicap. During his racing career, Nances Lad earned a total of 67,950, winning 13 races and finishing in the money 21 times in 32 starts. Like his sire, he competed in sprints and over routes, and. won carrying weights up to 126 pounds. In 1956 he captured the Paumonok and Toboggan handicaps and in the previous year took the Hutcheson and Fountain of Youth handicaps, the Swift Stakes and the Peter Pan and Vosburgh handicaps. While prepping for the 1957 renewal of the Toboggan Handicap on June 17, Nances Lad broke a bone in his left forefoot and the decision to retire him to stud was made by his owners, Hilton A. Dabson and C. J. Caithness. « * A * The breeding season in New Jersey has closed, freeing some farm owners from supervisory duties that covered four and a half months, and allowing them to visit the race courses where some of their products are now running. The last mare to be bred to Faultless at Dhu Varren Farm in Far Hills was Mrs. L. L. Voight Jr.s Solar System, a six-year-old daughter of Air Hero — Scottswood, by Ksar, who won the 1957 renewal of the Barbara Frietchie Handicap trained by J. Woods Garth. Earl Hawthorne, trainer for Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ellis of Dhu Varren Farm, also has two juvenile colts for Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Wills of Wycombe, Pa. in his stable at Monmouth Park. They are Buttermilk Bay, by Chaldon Heath Challenger ! H. out of Fanarette, by Fanar, and dial-, dons Color, also by Chaldon Heath out of the Valdina Orphan mare, Light Colors. Light Colore foaled the first Faultless colt of the year in January at Dhu Varren Farm. Hawthorne is also campaigning the two-year-old filly, Picture Window, by Orestes HI. out bf the Grand Time mare, Glorious Time, whose racing interests he has leased from Tyson Gilpin. At #ewmarket recently, the three-year-old filly, Wake Up!, by Persian Gulf out of Aroudal, won the one and one-eighth miles Haverhill; Stakes. The Lord Derby-bred Arousal, by Fairway out of. Aurora* by Hyperion, is now owned by Dr. and Mrs. Ttus-sel J. Fosbinder of Clearfield Farm, Pea-pack. The Fosbinders have consigned a handsome chestnut colt by Chanteur II., leading English sire out of Arousal, to the Saratoga Yearling Sales at Saratoga in August. Arousal was bred this spring to Mr. Busher. AAA A. J. Marucchi, chairman of the 11th Annual Yearling Show, to be held at the Monmouth Park Jockey Club on Wednesday morning, July 24, for homebreds, has announced the Show Committee. Preston M. Burch, trainer for Brookmeade Stable and turf authority, will pi-eside as judge, assisted by Lt. Russel Beck of Brookside. J. Samuel Perlman, editor and publisher of Daily Racing Form, has accepted the post of honorary steward, and Mrs. Richard C. .duPont, of Bohemia Stable, Wilmington, owner of last years show champion, Mi". Welcome Your Host — Meadow Maid , has been named honorary chairman. Coordinator of the show will be Ralph T. Reeve of Ridge to River Farm, North Branch, and the stable area director wijl be Armond Savarese of Tricorn Farm, Middletown. The organization of the filly class is in charge of Norman P. Bate, Triple Brook Farm, Holmdel, and Dr. George L. Yeaton of Bittersweet Farms, Newton. The colt class will be handled by William B. Vandegrift at Vande Farms, Mount Holly, and James B. Murphy, also.of Mount Holly. John Bond, Wrightstown breeder, has added two horses fcq, his stable campaigning at Monmouth Park with trainer John Dickinson. They are the Woodland Farm-bred High Tune, three-year-old daughter of Knave High — Blue Ballad, by Balladier, and the Raritan Stable-bred Countess Rusty, three-year-old filly by Casemate — Laris, by Pharamond H. Bond also races his two-year-old homebred Ballymoney, by Ferd out of Little Suzanne.
