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e Beau Prince Remains Mystery MysteryFrenchBred FrenchBred Has Won All Four U S Starts Trainer Knows Little About Him HimBy By BOB HORWOOD HORWOODJAMAICA JAMAICA L I N Yf May 1 Few Fewhorses horses have attracted so much attention attentionarid arid remained so much of a mystery even to his trainer as Cockfield Stables gray grayLe Le Beau Prince The Frenchbred four yearold by Fontenay Quillerie by Sultan SultanMahomed Mahomed has won all four of his starts in this country with ridiculous ease easeWhen When it was learned that Le Beau Prince would1 be a candidate in the Grey GreyLag Lag Handicap with Bill Boland in the saddle trainer Tom Waller was queried queriedfor for a little more background on the theinvader invader invaderWhy Why dont you wait about a week until Iris owner Mrs Marion Eppley gets to totown town Waller said She can at least tell you who she bought him from I was just justtold told to go down to the ship andjneet him a bit more than a year ago only knowing his name and the sire and dam damI I had never heard of them or any of the rest of his pedigree until I read about it itin in Evan Shipmans column in The Morning MorningTelegraph Telegraph a few days ago agoAlso Also Owned Arcave It would seem that Mrs Eppleys Cock field Stable is destined to be fortunate JBefore acquiring Le Beau Prince and Akbar Khan a Tehran colt who shows great greatpromise promise she had only two horses One never got to the post but the other was wasthe the exceedingly useful Arcave one of the jfnost popular runners below the top grade to race in New York in recent years yearsI I turned Le Beau Prince out at my farm at Bedford Hills Waller continued continuedDidnt Didnt do anything with him but let him get acclimated until last fall when I picked pickedhim him up and trained him a little Then I tput him away again until late in the winter Probably the reason he surprised surprisedpeople people so much was that he has never been a good work horse horseTold Told that Ted Atkinson who has ridden him in his last two victories is just a atrifle trifle uneasy at having to lose the mount mountin in the Grey Lag even for so distinguished a thoroughbred as Nashua Waller grinned grinnedthen then said I could wish that he had one more morerace race under him to get him a little more seasoned over a distance before the Grey GreyLag Lag but he does everything like a good t horse should And of course I was inter intervested vested to learn that he had so much staying blood all through his pedigree
