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" : — -i : TURN-TO — Sire of First Landing and leading juvenile sire of 1958 with earnings of 63,280 by his two-year-old offspring. I First Landing Bred for Great Things Sire Turn-to Top Juvenile Stallion Son of Royal Charger Has 10-Furlong Qualifications; Hildene Produced Hill Prince First Landing, champion two-year-old of 1958, possesses a pedigree worthy of a champion. Whether it will be worthy of ; victory in the Kentucky Derby is something | else again. First Landing is by Turn-to, co-topweight at 126 pounds with Porter-1 house on the Experimental Free Handicap ■ and topweight at 130 pounds on the Daily ; Racing Form handicap for three-year-olds. : Turn-to won six out of eight lifetime ■ starts, including The Garden State at two ! and the Flamingo at three, and earned • over 80,000. A handsome colt, he was a free runner and a willing runner, and possessed a wonderful temperament. A son of the speed and middle distance sire, Royal Charger, Turn-tos 10-furlong qualifications would have been highly suspect except that his dam. Source Sucree, by Admiral Drake, has proved a source area of classic quality. Another of her get was Cagire n., winner of several important English route stakes and now a promising sire. Half Brother to Sir Gallahad III. Source Sucree s sire, Admiral Drake, was a half brother to Sir Gallahad III. and i Bull Dog, well known for their influence in this country, and to Bois Roussel, a strong source of stamina in Europe. From February 27, 1954, when Turn-to won Hialeahs Flamingo by three and one-1 half lengths, until Bob Horwoods eye-witness account a few days ago of that race, I in which he said Turn-to was one Royal Charger who would have gone the classic distance in this country. First Landings Wood Memorial, in which he was overhauled by Manassa Mauler, lends more credence to Horwoods remarks than to the black and white record. Turn-to, the leading sire of money-winning two-year-olds with his first crop, may, like his sire, produce more speed than stamina. First Landings dam, Hildene. a former Broodmare of the Year, earned 00 in eight starts and could have been claimed i ! for ,400. Nevertheless, the daughter of the 1926 Derby winner Bubbling Over I I proved a marvelous producer, foaling Hill Prince second to Middleground in the 1950 Derby, a champion three years running and a Horse of the Year in one of them; the major stakes star Third Brother, the stakes-winning Prince Hill and the stakes - winning mare, Mangohick. Hill Prince, Third Brother and Prince Hill all excelled over a distance, but they were by Princequillo, our classic and cup sire. Hil-denes get have won nearly ,400,000. This from a mare who sold for 50 as a yearling, never won, and could have been claimed for ,400!
