New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Soon
ToSeI Is Of
His Yearlings

The sale by public auction of twenty
flve OF the most fashionably bred ard
most promising Of the yearlngs Of
Major August Belmont's Nursery Stud
Will be one of the outstanding features
of the coming thoroughbred yearline
sales at Saratoga.
Major Belmont has decided to send
his budding racers to the auction
block on August II through the
plowers-H Hunter Company, of New York.
The yearlings he will offer to the
highest bidders are from the most t
famous Nursery Stud mares, notably
FAIRY Gold, Nineveh, Ferment, To-
plary, Peccadillo, Surcingle, Woodvne,
Ioggery, Delusion, Olympia. Dame
Beauty, etc.
For twenty-five years and more the
produce of these mares have raced
under the Belmont silks in this coun-
try and abroad, and they have raced
with the highest distinction. The sires
OF Of the youngsters that will go under
the hammer are the successful vet
Grams Fair Play, Hastings, Trap Rock
and Etheibert, and the younger but
highly. promising horses Tracery,
champion distance runner in Great
Britain in 1918, and q horse for which
Major Belmont turned down an offer of
100000; Watervale, son of Water
cress and Lady Violet; Vulcain, 81
young son of Rock Sand, which dis
tlngUished himself at all distances in
France; Flint Rock. another brilliant
son of Rock Sand, and Fume.
Tracery, as everybody knows, was
got by Rock Sand from Topary. He
has had winners in Great Britain and
in this. country for several seasons.
Vulcain's first two-year olds are win
nlng this summer, one of them-The
Wanderer-having brought $4,000 at
the Saratoga sales last summer. The
bidding on these twenty-five yearlings
there are fifteen colts and ten fillies
IN the Lots going to be brisk.
Probably the most brilliant young
son of .Vulcain and Fairy Gold. This
fellow is rich chestnut. and he claims
as half brothers and as sister. Filter
gold, Friar Rock, Fair PLAY. Golden
Rock and Golden View, the last named
being the mare which threw Rock View,
the first great son of Rock Sand to
come to the races; also Viewpoint and
several other winners. Fair Play is
represented by a fine bay colt from
Nneveh, the dam of Norman III.
Two Thousand Guineas winner in
Great Britain, and Morse King, a bril-
liant three-year- old of the season of
1913, which lost his life after an acci-
dent in the running of the Suburban of
that year, which was won by Major
belmont's old gelding, Stromboli This
colt is an own brother of Morse King.
Following a lifelong practice, Major
Belmont HAS already named his year
lings. Morse Kings brother has been
registered Northward. The Vulcain-
Fairy Gold colt is called Fair Gain.
Trench Mortar Conspicuous
The most brilliant of the Flint Rock
youngsters, if blood lines count, is a
bay or brown colt registered as Trench
Mortar. This one is from Topiary, the
dam of Tracery and Trap Rock Flint
Rock has also a bay or brown colt
called Hackamore, the dam of which
Hour Hands a young daughter of
Ethelbert and Hour Glass and a half
sister of the light-footed Hourless, last
seasons American three-year old cham
plon. There is another representative
Of this Hourless family among the
Belmont yearlings. 1t is a brown fillv
called Heyday, claiming Watervale for
sire and Haute Roche for dam. Haute
Roche is an own sister of Hourglass.