Evening star., 1937-07-02
SWEEP AND TEDDY
TRAIL MAN 0 WAR
Luck Plays Major Part in
Saratoga Yearling Mart,
Declares Sande.
BY EARL SANDE.

= ARATOGA, July 2.-These hot
days around the racing map re-
mind one that Saratoga's August
- season and its escape from the
heat cannot be far of. The Spa, with
its old-fashioned hotels, its betasseled
and historic track has been the
neutral ground on which the best in
the East has met the best In the West
since the sos.
Old Father Time seems to have been
paralyzed by the speed of the thorough
breds that have raced at Saratoga.
and style have never pene-
trated to the little spring-water town.
The yearling sales will be one OF the
perennial highlights OF the season
These are pretty much OF gamble,
lead 'em away a chance to try their
hand at judging young horseflesh.
The fashion does change in the
thoroughbred breeding realms.
Colts and occasionally fillies which
are grown right and are straight legged
representatives Of one strain will sell
like hot soup to Eskimos one year.
The next they may sell for song and
you can sing it yourself. So those who
breed take quite as much risk as those
who buy.
Man o War Best Bargain.
As ALL good students OF racing
should know. the best bargain Of
all times in the Saratoga sales ring is
Man O. War, who WAS knocked down
to Samuel Riddle for $1,000 there as
a long legged yearling.
The largest sum ever paid for
yearling at auction in this country
was $4,000 the Eastland Farms
Syndicate laid on the line for New
Broom. about whose lack OF real
value as going concern" the least
said the better. Pompoon and
Reaping Reward were among the
best bargains Of recent sales. "Pomp"
sold to Jerry Loucheim for $4,000
and won over $4,000 in his first
season of racing. Reaping Reward
sold to Mrs. Mars for $4,000 and
the next year won $56,965. Then
there was Goldey F.. who cost $3.50
and won s17.470 in less than a year
and half. But their kind aren't so
plentiful
As I remarked above, the fashion
in thoroughbred bloodlines changes.
Just now, descendants of Man O. War,
Sweep and Teddy are in the limelight.
Naturally, that's what the blood buy
ers will seek
Samuel D. Riddle sold his crop
OF yearlings for the first time last
year at Saratoga and these included
a number Of the get of Man O. War
They brought high prices. But just
think how much higher prices his
present crop would bring were they
to be offered because of the deeds
Of War Admiral!
The Porter Doing Well.
pig RED" not only has been rep
resented the last couple Of sea
sons by what the horse folks consider
the best since he himself raced He i
also the sire OF the dams OF High
Fleet, queen Of the 1896 3-year-olt
fillies. and of the Inflated Bushranger
champion of the 1896 steeplechasers
So naturally Man o War is the "heigh
OF fashion" today.
Then consider Sweep. His son. th'
Porter. now at stud, never was goinl
so we'll as at present, with Roeemont
Aneroid and Inhale among his son
and daughters winning 1mportan
stakes in impressive style. And Sweel
is the sire of Brushup. the dam o
War Admiral. also of Dustwhirl, tn
dam of Reaplng Reward
As for the Teddys Well. in recen
years his line has given the Fox o
Belair, Granville, Omaha, Coldstream
Log, Finance, Case Ace and others.
| But it isn't SO simple as just walk