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SALE OF COCHRAN HORSES Splendid Array of High Class Thoroughbreds to Be Sold at Belmont Park May 23. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 13— At Belmont Park on Saturday, May 23, one of the most important sales of horses in training will be conducted by the Fasig-Tipton Company. This is the famous racing stable of the late Gifford A. Cochran, a stable that has played a dominant part in the racing history of this country for the past decade. It is only necessary to point out that horses of this stable during the past year won forty-one races, were second in twenty-four and third in eighteen, earning 48,170, while the previous year the Cochran horses won forty-eight races, were twenty-eight times second and twenty times third, earning 59,435, and in 1928 this stable won races that netted it 21,469. The Cochran stable was noted for its quality rather than its quantity, the horses in training rarely exceeding twenty, but year in and year out the most satisfactory results were obtained. Most of the horses that were responsible for the satisfactory figures of 1930 and 1929 will be disposed of at this vendue, and also the two-year-olds that would have carried the green and gold silks of Mr. Cochran this year, had he lived. This is an unparalleled opportunity to buy a ready made racing stable. Many of the horses to be sold are stakes winners, all are young enough to repeat their stakes successes, while the two-year-olds are bred in the purple, have shown excellent form in their trials and are quite the best band that were ever bred at Shandon Stud. Among the horses that have already established reputations are the double Futurity winner Flying Heels, winner of over 00,-000, never worse than second in his racing career and only four-year-old; the flying The Beasel, a grand four-year-old mare; Epithet, winner of the Hopeful Stakes, the only horse to beat Jamestown; Polygamous and Helianthus, as promising a pair of three-year-olds as there is in the East, both winners at two; Repentance, winner of the Wakefield Handicap and three other races and never out of the money in twelve starts at two; Aldershot, St. Marco and others. The two-year-olds number sixteen and among them are several far above the average. Lack of space precludes an extensive review of these two-year-olds, but particular attention is called to Caerleon, a bay colt by imported Sir Gallahad III. — Fairy Wand, a grand looking two-year-old by the worlds greatest sire, from the dam of Genie and Epithet. No two-year-old his equal will be sold this year. He stands sixteen hands and has plenty of bone. Another fine colt is Buck and Wing, a brown son of the Preakness winner Coventry, from Heeltaps, the dam of flying Heels. This is another of the prizes of the vendue.
