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CLEOPA TRA RETIRED TO THE STUD WINNER OF LATONIA CHAMPIONSHIP STAKES TO RACE NO MORE HER CAREER ON THE TURF STRENUOUS AND BRILLIANT By EXILE The race tracks of America have seen the last of Mr. W. B. Coes Cleopatra, a notable filly of Irish blood Which has been a public favorite with reason among eastern lovers of the thoroughbreds for the two seasons she, has performed before them. Her victory in the Latonin Championship was a fitting close to Cleopatras racing career, her owner deciding to retire her to the stud. In speaking of Cleopatra, Mr. Coe said: "I am going to retire Cleopatra to the stud, as I believe she has stood a campaigning which only a horse of Iron could stand, after being siiipped to Kentucky three times, to Saratoga and Maryland, besides racing often on the Metropolitan tracks. Then, too, there have been many races she lias lost which were due to bad riding. One in particular was when she was beaten by John P. Grier at Jamaica just before she was siiipped to Latonia to run in the Championship Stakes. Cleopatra is one of the best-bred, mares of pure English stock that we have in America, I believe. Her sire and dam are both dead and I dont want to take any chances of destroying her as a brood mare. I believe she will make as good a matron as she did a racer." During her racing career Cleopatra lias run twenty six times and won eight races aud 5,937. , as is shown in the table below: iear. . Age. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. TJnp. Won. 1919 2 11 .2 1 :; $ 9,200 1920 3 15 i 5 3 1 40,731 Totals 2 20 8 10 4 4 5,937 Cleopatras 1920 races, fifteen in number, are: Date. Track. Stake. Dist. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. May 1 Pimlieo .. Wisconsin Purse 3-4 0 O 1 0 200 May 8 Churchill Downs Kentucky Dfrby 1 1-4 0 0 0 1 May 15 Pimlieo Pimlieo Oaks 1 1-10 1 0 0 0 3,050 June 3.... Belmont Park........ Ladles Handicap 1 0 1 0 0 350 June 10. ...Belmont Park...... .. Sun bonnet Handicap 1 1-8 1 0 0 0 1,141 June 12 Belmont Park....;...., .Coaching ;plub Oaks 1 3-8 1 0 0 0 4,075 June 29 Latonia ; Latonia Oaks , .11-4 0 - -.1 -0 :0 700 July 9 Latonia Daniel Boone Handicap ...j. . lt.-ljmn QjtfHSw..-.-Kno Aug. 11 Saratoga ..Alabama. Stakes.rTvv.......... lt3 1 0 0 0 7.275 "Aug. 25".".".. Saratoga ."Huron Handicap 13-10 1 0 0 0 2,325 Aug. 31.... Saratoga Saratoga , Cilp 1 3-4 0 1 0 0 700 Sept. 14.... Belmont Park -Autumn Gold Cup 2 0 0 1 0 700 Sept. 25.... Aqueduct Aqueduct Handicap 15-10 0 1 0 0 1,000 Oct. 2 Jamaica Pierrepont Handicap 1 1-4 0 1 0 0 1,000 Oct. 23 Latonia t Championship 13-4 1 "0 0 0 22,810 Totals 15 : 0 5 3 1 0,731 Includes gold cup valued at 1,000. Built somewhat on the greyhound. ;type and not a particularly handsome individual, Cleopatra, like her dead sire, the" Irish Corcyra, isftUtand stanch. Her .progeny will be keenly watched and welcomed. Cleopatra comes of a stout arid true-blooded producing line. Here is her ancestral map: , . . J Bend Or 1 E rCyifStiB. 9 T, B0na ViSta 4 i Vista 4 H Jlsonomy ;.:.1 E 1 a it Arcadia "Distant Shore 9 E f rolymclns .. 3 JLordCHfdcn 2 E S brown, 1902 I Maid Marian j Hampton mntnn 1n 10 , Lady Langden 10 E "L I Quiver jloxophilite 3 E , J yuiver Vau. Young Melbourne 3 M 1 1 f Persimmon ..... 7 I iiir-V..V.A S -3 Pearmain ..6 I bay, 1893 J Hampton 10 E icr,ilta II leruita n. I Hhestnut, 1005 " iHermiono 7 M " Uenemoosluv i Hagioscope 23 S";:;:;;:;;; g S 1 Uenonah 3 to g 1 , Oxford 12 B S a . . . J Sterling 12 whisper 12 E 3.8 I f lsonomy ....... 19 j j Stockwell . . . 3E f J bay, 1875 Isola Bella Ilsoltne 19 E f Galllnule ...19 " JNewminster 8 E 2 S chestnut, 1884 Moorhen J Hermit o seclusion 5 H S j Skirmisher 2 E 1 Dahter of J.J , Ivertumna 19 E 1 " JGalopin 3 E A St. Simon ......11 O j . f St. Serf :. 8 J 1st. Angela 11 E StCecilia .. 3 J brown, 1887 Feronia J Thormanby 4 H 1 I bay, 1896 1 .1 Woodbine 8 E Lwrf. Tynedale 13 J Warlock 9E Melody 1 Queen of Tyne 12 M j fiipp J Adventure ....12 E 1 Sweet Sound 3 E Corcyra, Cleopatras sire, in his racing days as a two-year-old scored meritorious victories in the Bous Plate at Doncaster and Middle Park Plate at headquarters, beating Stornoway and Kennymore. As a three-year-old Corcyra won four out of six starts, numbering among his successes the Newmarket Stakes, Ascot Derby and Midsummer Stakes, Ascot; also finishing Becond, beating Black Jester for the Two Thousand. Corcyra was a brother to the fast Benevente, winner as a juvenile of the Coventry Stakes and Middle Park Plate, and was by the champion English sire Polymelus, winner of a Cambridgeshire, Duke of York Stakes and Champion Stakes, and is the sire of the classic winners Black Jester, Fifinelli and Pommern. Cyllene, sire of Polymelus, won the Ascot Gold Cup and was twice sold for upward of 00,000. All of you know all about Maid Marian, dam of Polymelus, and also dam of Marian Hood, whose yearling by Sunstar made 5,000 at the recent Saratoga sales, and whose daughter, Sunbonnet, won the Kentucky Oaks and Alabama Stakes only a couple of years ago. This also is the family of the Australian champion sire, Grafton, and of the defunct Sain. Corcyra was a member of the Old Bald Peg No. 6 family, so famous in the long ago as the family of Plenipotentiary, Dlomed, Phantom, etc. St. Gatiens sire. The Bover, is also a member, but for some time past in England it appeared as though the light of. the No. C family was about to be extinguished; not so, however, in other parts of the world, for the 00,000 Botafogos sire, Old Man, Is a member of this line, as are the Frenchman, Beaurepaire and Beauminet, and Ogden still plays a strong hand in this country. Besides those good horses of recent years, Great Britain, Worth, Free Lance aud Old Rosebud are all members of this family. Pearmain, Corcyras dam, is by that extra good brood mare sire, Persimmon. Cleopatras dam, Galilee, is a nine-year-old daughter of, the splendid brood mare sire, Gallinule. His daughters never fail as producers, and the granddam. St.. Cecilia, is by Sains sire, St. Serf, son of St. Simon, and whose dam, Feronia, is by the great brood mare sire, Derby winner and Herod horse, Thormanby. The more , i you have of this Thormanby strain the better, and so runs the, pedigree to Melody, dam of the One i j Thousand Guineas winner, Winifredn. .Melody is by Tynedale, son of Warlock, by Birdcatcher Glee, by Adventurer. A good producing line, surely, and what a splendid mate is Cleopatra for some Herod , or Matehem sire, for in the blood of both she is slightly deficient!
