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. 4 . I SUNGLOW— Sire of Sword Dancer. Versatility in Sword Dancers Lines Both Sides Have | Speed and Stamina Sire Sunglow Won at All Distances, With Widener Most Noteworthy Success Sword Dancer is by the comparatively young sire, Sunglow, a high class handicap performer, out of Highland Fling, a young, unraced matron who comes from a strong "family." Sunglows most important win was in Hialeahs Widener Handicap, but he showed much versatility, winning from 5V2 furlongs to 10 furlongs and also scoring in stakes competition on the grass. He ran third for the U. S. to Worden and Iceberg n. in a renewal of the 1V2 mile Washington, D. C, International. Sword Dancer is a member of his first full crop. Sunglows sire, Sun Again, a half brother to the Preakness winner, Fervent, was essentially a speed horse, winning the Juvenile Stakes and the Arlington Futurity at two and the Equipoise Mile as an older horse. Sun Agains get have not conformed to the pattern of their sire. Sun Again also sired such distance stakes winners as Wistful and Palestinian sire of Our Dad , such middle distance stakes winners as Sunshine Nell and Liberty Sun, and such sprint stars as the champion White Skies, More Sun, Mr. Turf and Grandpaw. Rosern, Sunglows dam, placed but did not win. However, her dam was the classic Epsom Oaks winning Rosedrop, dam of | Gainsborough, an English Triple Crown winner and sire of Hyperion. Many Stakes Winners in Female Line Sword Dancers dam was unraced and the next dam, Swing Time, failed to win. Nevertheless, the colts tail-female family has produced many noteworthy stakes winners. Sword Dancers dam has had one other foal to race, the winner Beau Dance, by Beau Gem. Swing Time, by Royal Minstrel, bred six winning foals, including the stakes winner OAlison. Sword Dancers third dam, Speed Boat, was a major stakes winner and became a major producer. By Man o War out of Friars Carse, Speed Boat is a full sister to War Relic, a noted stakes winner and important Fair Play line sire; to War Kilt, dam of a French stakes winner, and to Anchors Ahead, dam of stakes winners and stakes producers, including Honor Bound, dam of Countess Fleet and Count of Honor. Speed Boat bred* the classicist Level Best, by Equipoise. Level Best won the Coaching Club American Oaks and numerous other fixtures and was voted best of her age. Level Best produced Level Lea, winner of the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup and third best sophomore of his year. Level Best is also ancestress of Levelix, winner of the 1959 Jasmine Stakes. Another of Speed Boats daughters, PT Boat, produced Up Early, dam of Tick Tock, winner of nearly 50,000. It is a fine family, having produced much speed on many occasions and speed and stamina on others.
