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. COULTHWAITE MAY VISIT U. S. ! Anglo -Irish Trainer Who Prepared , Grand National Winner Planning Autumn Trip. Tom Coulthwaite, the successful Anglo-Irish trainer, who saddled Grakle to win this years Grand National, may visit the United States this summer or fall. If it is feasible for Coulthwaite to adhere to his present intentions, he will be at Saratoga and remain for the Belmont Park fall meeting. No trainer on the British turf has had a more colorful or successful career in all departments of racing than the veteran Coulthwaite, but his greatest success has been attained in sport under the National Hunt and Steeplechase rules. Thrice he trained at Hednesford the winner of the most coveted of all steeplechases, the Grand National, namely Stanley Howards Eremon, 1907, and Jenkinstown, 1910, while this year Grakle gave him his third victory, winning under C. B. Taylors silks. Four times he saddled the runner-up at Aintree in Rath-nally, 1911; Bloodstone, 1912; Jacobus, 1915, and Fly Mask, 1924. On two other occasions the Hednesford horses finished third in the great steeplechase, Conjuror II. and Fly Mask in 1922 and 1924, respectively. Trainer Coulthwaite holds the enviable record of saddling eight of the twelve winners, with no runners in two races, at the Manchester Easter National Hunt meeting. At the same meeting he thrice won the Lancashire Steeplechase, Englands most coveted cross-country event, after the National, with Fairland, 1903; Eremon, 1907, and Wil-kinstown, 1912. One of the best flat race horses trained by Coulthwaite was T. M. Nolans Rathlea, winner of the 1912 Chester Cup Handicap. He has high hopes that his charge, Comes, a three-year-old son of Knight of the Garter, from Mary, by Wildair, from the American-bred Bathgate, by Bathampton, from Belinda, by Kingfisher, will carry the colors of his owner and breeder, T. K. Laidlaw, with distinction next month in the Derby at Epsom. So highly does Coulthwaite rate 1 this horse that he has engaged the champion Irish jockey, Joe Candy, to ride the : colt. It is an open secret that much is expected of Comes, winner of his only two races this season, and win or lose at Epsom, he will be sent to Ireland to start in the Irish 1 Derby, run at Curragh late in June. Aboyeur, which horse was awarded the J 1913 Derby when the Epsom stewards of • their own volition and without any claim of ; foul being lodged, disqualified C. Bower Ismays Craganour, was bred by T. K. Laidlaw, who sold the son of Desmond and 1 Pawky to A. P. Cunliffe as a yearling. It ; would be a fitting climax to his great career as a trainer were the veteran Coulthwaite, • often styled in the English sporting press, "the wizard of Hednesford," to lead back the winner of the Derby, the worlds greatest flat race, now that he has already saddled the winner of the worlds premier steeplechase.
