Joe Palmer gave an update on Alfred Vanderbilt's champion filly Bed o' Roses, adding: "I persist in regarding [her] as a Maryland product even if she was foaled in Perris, Calif.

"[She] grew reasonably during her winter at Sagamore Farm, and now stands about 15.1 1/2. According to her trainer, Bill Winfrey, she weighs about 960 pounds, and she's at racing condition."

The Kentucky Derby was still on the filly's radar, of which Palmer was hopeful:

". . . if you've never done it, you can't imagine how tiresome it is to write, every year, 'Regret is the only filly to win the Kentucky Derby.' It would amount almost to a vacation if next year we could write Regret and Bed o' Roses are the only fillies to win the Kentucky Derby."
After a juvenile campaign of 21 starts which started in February and ended in November, Bed o' Roses, a daughter of Rosemont and the Discovery mare Good Thing, didn't make her first 3-year-old start until June, missing the Triple Crown races.

Humphrey Finney traveled to Middleburg, Va., for the sale of William Ziegler's breeding stock, which he recounted in
The Editor's Saddle-Bag, Feb. 18: "This affair was held by Fasig-Tipton Company this afternoon, and was a first class success. The grand old mare Marching Home easily topped the vendue, going to Dave Evans of New Jersey, along with another famous star of days gone by, Esposa.

The two mares were 18. Marching Home had produced three stakes winners from her first three foals, all by home stallion Espino and foaled in Virginia at Ziegler's Burrland Farm, including Belmont Stakes winner Bounding Home. Esposa, by Espino, was champion handicap mare in 1937 and 1938, won 15 stakes, and was a stakes producer.

Marching Home's 2-year-old filly that year was by Burrland Farm stakes winner and sire Wait a Bit (also by Espino). Named Sailing Home,

she became the granddam of Bold Reasoning, the sire of Seattle Slew.

A census conducted by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association disclosed "there were 177 farms in Maryland where Thoroughbreds are raised, with from one to 30 or so mares to produce them. These farms are located in 18 of Maryland's 23 counties and embrace an acreage of 46,797, or an average of 265 to the farm. Accepting the most conservative of valuations, this would make the real estate alone involved in the proposition worth around $10 million. Add the value of the 70 stallions and 825 broodmares, together with about 500 yearlings and miscellaneous other Thoroughbreds domiciled on the farms and not reckoned as horses in training, and one has a pretty healthy investment in Thoroughbreds in the state."