The Washington herald., 1919-03-10
MANY ENTRIES
OF YEARLINGS
Pimlico Nursery, Special
Event Of Spring Meet,
Attracts Big Field.


more high-priced yearlings in Pimlico
Nursery. one OF the Maryland Jockey
Clubs juvenile specials to be decided
in the course Of the coming Pimlico
spring meeting-May l to 17-than
were ever before nominated to start
In a Maryland spring stake. One Is a
son OF Black Jester and Primula,
imported from Great Britain by Ar
thur Il. Hancock. which at Saratoga
last summer cost Commander J. X. l..
Ross. of Montreal. s14.5O0; another is
a Virginian bred. son of Celt and
Ballet Girl, a product of Capt. Philip
NJ. Walkers Page Brook stud, which
cost Commander Ross 5000; another
is a son of Thrush and Silent Queen,
imported by Mr.. Hancock. which cost
the Montreal turfman $500; another Is
a son of Traceery and Royal Coin
age, bred in Great Britain by Mai.
August Belmont. for which John e.
Madden paid $4,000. and another is a
son of Celt and Network, bred by Mr..
Hancock In Virginia. for which James
w. McClelland, the owner of Eternal
and The Wanderer. paid $4,000.
The top-priced youngster of last
summers Saratoga sales docs not
happen to have been named for the
Pimlico Nursery. but he is pretty sure
to be nominated for the Spring Juve-
nile. a $500 race for 2-year-olds at
four and a half furlongs. which will
close on April 3. This youngster,
Golden Broom. a son of Sweeper ii
and the Hamburg mare, Zuna, is one
of string of exceptionally precocious
2-year-olds Michael DAILY is develop
ing for Mrs. Walter NJ. Jeffords, OF
Philadelphia, at Glen Riddle farm, in
Worcester County, Maryland. Reports
from Glen Riddle indicate that Golden
Broom Is coming on handsomely. Mrs
Herman b. Duryea bred Golden
Broom. which Is a half-brother OF
Red So, in France. and the Sweeper
colt cost Mrs. Jeffords $4,000 at the
Duryea sale. Joseph Z. widener, an
other Philadelphian, was the contend.
ing bidder.
The horses of the stable of Mr.. and
Mn. Jeffords have been galIoping in
the open all winter. and they will do
their first racing at Havre de Grace.
They will all be ready for the coIors
by the middle of April. and they
should, barring accident. race to mid
season form at Pimlico in May There
will be few. IL any. backward racers
in Maryland this spring.
That all the high-priced youngsters
named for the Pimlico Nursery will be
put In the Spring Juvenile is a fore
gone conclusion. And with the Black
Jester colt. that cost him upward of
$4,000, the 5000 Celt colt, which is a
half-brother of Edward Beale Nc
Leans smart four-year-old THE Por-
ter, and the Thrush colt he got for
the comparatively reasonable sum of
$500. Commander Ross will name an
equally promising youngster called
Trench Mortar, a son of Flint Rock
and Topiary, which he got for the
modest sum of 500. The Ross two
year-olds, which wintered at Laurel
Park, are speeding up fast for Mary
land spring racing. and II. G. Bed
well has an idea that this Trench
Mortar will do as well as his high
priced stable companions. Why
Trench Mortar fetched no more than
s1o0 was one of the mysteries of the
Saratoga sales. Besides being a good
looked he is a half-brother of Trap
ROCK. also OF Tracery. a Rock Sand
stallion like Flint Rock, which Mai.
August Belmont refused to sell in 1915
Tor 1000 guineas, or about soo9, 9,OO0.
The Celt-Network colt, a brother of
Embroidery and Paddy Whack and a
half-brother of Lace and Worlmaid.
the last named the dam of Dunboyne,
Is at Hot Springs. He will come back
to Pimlico in May with Eternal and
The Wanderer, which. Mr.. McClelland
has announced, are to start in the
$4,000 Preakness. after they have tried
their luck in the Kentucky Derby.
With them will come a raft of promis-
ing youngsters Mr.. McClelland bought
privately last summer. One of these
private purchases is a son of Sweep
and Gold Ten. hence a half-brother
of Ten Point, Walden winner. One
is son of Sweep and Ethel Pace. ac-
cordingly a half-brother of Alfred No
BILE and Housemaid. Another is a son
OF Marathon and elena, and a half
brother of Billy Kelly no less.
These youngsters will race in Mary
land in the spring because the Mary
land Jockey Club has made ffrst-rs te
juvenile specials of the Pimlico Nur-
sery and the Spring Juvenile. They
with two-score or more smart two
year-olds of the stables of John E.
Madden. Capt. Raj Parr. George
Wingfeld, ]. B. Elwell, Richard F.
Carman. Thomas Clyde, Mai. Robert
L. Gerry. Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Saml.
Ross. John Sanford, J. H. Rosseter.
George d. Widener. Harry Payne
Whitney, Clifford A. Cochran, Richard
T. Wilson, Robert Walden, Alfred
Hennen Morris. Cornelius NJ. Garri-
son and others, will give Maryland
better two-year-old racing this spring
than the Old Line State has ever had
in the past.