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SOULE PLANS FOR WINTER Owner on Lookout for Two -Year-Olds to Race at Tijuana Track. Sleiveconard and Tolytlila at rrescnt Are Only Horses In the Stable Good Riders for Iar "Western Meeting:. BALTIMORE. Md., November 10. Unless Edward G. Soulo succeeds in acquiring a high-class two-year-old or so between this and the finish of the Bowie meeting Sleive-conard and Polythia will be the only horses of good class he will have for winter racing at Tijuana. Mr. Soule, a Californian, has not missed a winter meeting at Tijuana since James W. Coffroth established racing on a high-class scale at the Lower California course. Paddy Whack, Regal Lodge, Edwina and Polythia have borne his silks there in other years. Mr. Soule is looking for a good two-year-old or so, in order that he may have representation in the Tijuana Derby. The race will be at one mile and an eighth, with an added money value of ?G,000. It will attract a better class of horses than have taken part in previous years. Several of the fastest long-distance runners of mature years in training now in Kentucky and Maryland are going to the Pacific Coast to prepare for the Coffroth Handicap, at one mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds and over, that will have an added money value of 0,000. A number of good 1922 two-year-olds will go with these veterans. A year ago last winter Mr. Soule "discovered" jockey Marinclli at Tijuana and brought that young man East to make a good reputation on the courses of New York and Maryland. Soule will look over budding talent from the western courses in the course of the hundred days or more of racing at Tijuana. Soule has a shrewd eye for potential riding skill. SOULE BUYS SLLIVECONAIU. While the thoroughbreds were racing at Aqueduct in July, Mr. Soule bought Sleive-conard from John Sanford of Amsterdam in the hope that that New York-bred son of The Curragh and Danoscara might make a Coffroth Handicap horse. In a way he has been disappointed in Sleiveconard. The son of The Curragh, it has developed, was not intended by nature for long-distance running, j But Sleiveconard has not been a loss. He , is a capital manager of weight with a quick j j turn of speed and a natural mud runner. He j can beat the best of second raters of the East at three-quarters mile, seven-eighths i mile and a mile. Soule has won him out many times over. The competition in handi- i caps at Tijuana will not be as keen as it has been in races of that sort on the New I York courses through the summer and autumn. It is probable, therefore, that Sleiveconard ; may win at all distances up to a mile I and an eighth. He may develop into a genuine I long-route traveler. He is stoutly bred. Polythia, a daughter of the sprinter Poly- I melian, bred in Wyoming by William R. Coe, ! i proprietor of the Shoshone Ranch, which once i was owned by the late Buffalo Bill, bids fair to make a useful long-distance runner at Tijuana. Polythia has developed appreciably in physique since Mr. Soule brought her East last spring. Veteran jockeys who have signified to Mr. Coffroth their intention of riding at Tijuana s through the winter are J. Butwell. Clarence j Turner, W. W. Taylor. C. Taylor, IT. Howard, Lawrence Lyke, Buddy Ensor, E. Smallwood, j Andrew Schuttinger, Clifford Robinson and Albert Johnson. Most of these boys will ride altogether as free lances. But some of them will have stable connections.
