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SLEDMERE TWO YEAR OLDS ♦-— May Bring Change in Racing Fortunes of W. R. Coe. • None of the New Wealthy Recruits to the Sport Has Had Poorer Luck. 4 r.altimorc. M 1.. March 31. — None of the new linn of wealth and standing who came to tii- rescue of racing in it* dark days has liail jioorcr luck than W". R. Coe. Mr. Coe is a Mining man of Xew York anil Wyoming. The racing fraternity never heard of him until the sportsmanlike Piping Hock enterprise was started in P.HJ. Then lie came to the front as one of the I-.idors and quicklv became known as a liberal purchaser of ordinary stuff. In 1913 he bought still inure liberally, one of his purchases, the colt White Hackle, having cost him 0,000. Three years back he imyort"d a band of English colts and fillies that cost him heavily, and two rears back he reiteated on an even more generous wale. A. K. Maromher and John Sanford are the only e.istern sportsmen of wealth who have invested iimre money in Luropeau thoroughbreds than V. It. « ••. Bu* they have had some success, albeit tlieir 1hi|-s"s have no* won enough in stakes and purses in |!ie last two or three years to pay stable and training « xpenoes. to say nothing of yielding a return on ihcir heavy investments. It is something to have a Suubounet to win a Kentucky Oaks, a George Smith to win a Kentucky Derby, a Boots to win a Suburban and a Brookdale Handicap in a fortnight and :i Ijlierty Loan to win a I-atoni.i Derby. The only recent success of importance Mr. Coe has achieved was scored at Iimlico last November, when his three-year-old jumpers. Town Hall and c.ild Bond, finished one -two in the Zlkiidge Steeplechase. Hut no one ever heard him complain of his luck. And last year he imported the entire yearling output of tlie sicilincrc Stud, one of the leading thoroughbred nurseries of Oreut Britain. It will, therefore, be generally gratifying to the lacing fraternity to hear that these Sledmore yearlings of 1917 have wintered handsomely and are among the most promising of the eastern two-year-olds of 191K. They are ill William Karricks charge at Belmont Park, the dispersal of the stable of the late Schuyler L. Parsons having made it possible for Kcrricfc to take them over. Karrick says that he has not encountered a better band of two-year-olds in the last four or five years. He made the preditiou that Mr. Coe would find among them one or two cracks. Karrick has k.iown this since last fall, which accounts for the fact that Mr. Coe is • ■in- of the leading nominators this spring in the 1 -vi. year-old stakes of 191s. Karrick does not ■• |ect much bucking trouble, a trouble that has interfered with the racing of so many English and Ir ach two-year-olds in this country in the course of the last three or four years. Most of his youngsters bucked last fall when they were broken by Cocs former trainer. J. Carroll. THIS ONE BRED IN THE PURPLE. tine of the most forward of Mr. Coes youngsters is a liay filly by August Belmonts great Bock Sand horse. Tracery — Veneration II.. she the dam of Craganour and Nassovian. The Veneration filly-has size and length and a good disposition and she is endowed with high s|iced. The Tracery — Stolen Kiss filly should lie up and doing soon. She has none of the leggiuess that has characterised other youngsters by Tracery that have api»eared at the races in this country. Her liumc is Kiss Again. She is compart, rather short -legged and uniformly developed. The daughter of The Tetrarch — Herod ias is a rusty gray, a brindle. Iierhaiw. She is shapely and nimble, with length lo spare, a short back and much sense. Her sire. ■ son of Roi Hcrode. and a freak as regards looks. Mas never beaiea. The Cicero — Queeulet filly. Tereutiti. is also of the compact type, a willing worker and smooth gaited. The Spearmint. .Swyn-ford. Sundridge and Tredennis colts are big-boned, heavily muscled and formidable. Karrick will not hurry "them. He will Ik- content, probably, if they get "to the races in winning form at Saratoga. He has a couple of pre|»osessing colts of American stock, chestnut sous of Star Shoot and 1iicle. the former is Star Realm, dam Continental, the latter Stepson, dam Katrine, for the early New York meetings. More has liecu done with these young-bters than with any of the foreign -breds. The only horses of consequence Mr. Coe will have for other than two-year-old racing this year are the veteran jumper. Bet. a Harltor Hill Cup winner in 11116, and the four-year-olds Town Hall and Gold Bond. These will lie trained by Carroll, who will have them ready for Maryland steepleehasing at Havre de Gra«-c and Piiulico. Bet. a good jumper and a mare of speed, is erratic. One never knows when she will take to the high brush. Town Hall. a bay gciding by Ballot — Dorval. and Gold Bond, a chestnut gelding by Dick Welles— Miss Lida. are Utter prosiiects. They are fast, straight fencers, go.d managers of weight and racers of merit on the tli t. They were easily the liest three-year-old jumper* uncovered in the east last vear.
