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c H ll n no fi ei si s y D U ■ s i hi he ti tl p n k cl In ,, u f p, g, a y o of a as n fe ], j, n t t — COE DROPS STABLE NAME • Owner of Pompey Abandons Use of Nom de Course. » Has Powerful lassie Candidates in Three- Year-Ohl Colt and the Kill lllark Maria. | BY APT. DKNIS KETTLE. NEW YORK, X. Y.. April 22.— I observe that the nom de course. Shoshone Stable, is longer appearing with the stake entries from the stable of W. P. Coe. all recent etitries of the Wyoming turfman being made simply in his own name. This indicates that Mr. Cue is to drop the stable name this year, it having served its purpose during a period of mourning when Mr. Coe was not personally active in racing, but at the same time preferred not t disperse the fine organization he had built up nor to interrupt its natural progress with a recess from racing on the eve of its greatness. "On the eve of its greatness" is not loosely-written. Krom the present outlook. Mr. Coe may confidently look forward to his most successful year on the turf : indeed, it is quite within the bounds of probability that will reach that hitherto unachieved distinction of leading all other stables on the turf this year. Tn Pompey and Black Maria he has two powerful classic candidates. Stranger things have happened than that one stable should house both the champion colt and the champion filly of the three-year-old division. a year that promises to be notable for the unprecedented amount of money hung up for three-year-olds, the potential earning power of Pompey and Black Maria is staggering. Nor has Mr. Coe all his eggs in one basket: that is. his hopes are not dependent by any means on his strength in the three* year-old division. Certainly at this writing there is no band two-year-olds seen in the East that looks formidable as the twenty-odd juveniles now rapidly rounding to condition under trainer Karricks hand at Belmont I ark. At least half a dozen colts and the same number of fillies out of the lot have the externals of first-class stake winners. One mans bad luck is another mans fortune. When the Pancocas two-year-olds turned out badly last year, it was Mr. COOS Continued on twelfth page! COE DROPS STABLE NAME Continued from first page stable that benefited by obtaining the services of jockey Laverne Kator to ride Porn-pey in his mosi important engagements. Hildereths lot. I am told, is not better at three than it was at two, so it is not unlikely that good guidance of the Coe horses in the classics may again be assured by the presence of Fator in the saddle. This, with the added possibility that young Master Mortensen. whose contract was purchased in the winter by Mr. Coe, may ride to his promise to the extent that it will not even be necessary to borrow the Rancocas rider. The ill-fated sire. The Finn, dead after only one season of service in the stud, to which Mr. Coe had brought him at an enormous figure, is represented by three colts and three fillies of more than ordinary prom-is? in the stables juvenile string. The one that is watched with most interest is, of course. Selene, daughter of Cleopatra and half-sister of Iompey. It is the talk of the course, however, that the preponderance of strength in the juvenile string it not from The Finn, hut from Polymelian. It would be somewhat ironic if this sire, after having taken a back s at. so to speak, first to The Finn and later to Friar Rock, should turn out to be the first power of the establishment. At any rate, I make bold to counsel high respect for these sons and daughters of Polymelian. Hy all theories he should get better than he has yet sent to the races. It is interes ing to note the several points in common in the pedigrees of Polymelian and Phalaris. sire of Carlaris and leading sire of Creat Britain last year. Not only are they identical on top, both being sens of Polymclus. but the same cross from Springfield occurs on the lower side. liromus. the dam of Phalaris. is by Sainfoin, while Pnsuuita. the dam of lolymelus. was a daughter of Sundridge. whose dam. Sierra, was a full sister of Sainfoin. Polymclus had the uni |ue career of going to the stud at three, training for the first time at four and returning to the stud at five. At three he was mated with four marcs and got two winners, Iolythia and Jacob -an. He took training nicely the following season, started eight times and was never out of the money, winning four races, including a stake. In the youngsters he has sssrl to the races since, the best was prob-al»lv Klvina. victor over Sunspero. Big Blaze and others at virtually level weights in the Adirondack Handicap. He has some forty other winners of various sorts, none of them really a top-notcher. Hut this may be his year.
