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NOTED SIRE OF CLEOPATRA IS DEAD LONDON, England, August 14. The Irish sire Corcyra is dead. He broke a bone in his leg while playing in the paddock at Lord Londonderrys estate, Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, Wednesday, and was destroyed. Corcyra has been in the stud since 1015 and had a fair measure of success. His best scion was probably this and last years good filly Blue Dun. Corcyra, however, was an extra good race horse in his two and three-year-old form. As a two-year-old in 1913 he won four of six races and 23,250. He was second to Kenny-more in the Dewhurst Plate, beat Stornoway and Kennymore in winning the Middle Park Plate and won the Rous and Wynyard Park Plates in fine company. As a three-year-old Corcyra was beaten but twice. He ran second to Peter the Hermit in the Hardwicke Stakes, and second to Kennymore in the Two Thousand Guineas. That year, in 1914, Corcyra won 8,700 and the Midsummer Stakes,. Ascot Derby, Whitsuntide Plate and Newmarket Stakes. In the Midsummer Stakes Mr. Edward B. McLeans promising sire Lough Foyle and Armant, both good horses, were behind him. Corcyra was a chestnut, foaled in 1911, and was bred, raced and owned by Lord Londonderry. He was by Polymelus Pearmain, by Persimmon, and a fine individual. : j
