New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-14
Coe Engages
Patterson to
Train Horses

During the next racing season. W.
r. Coe, the well-known banker and
multi-millionaire, has planned an &C
tive racing campaign. both on the fiat
and over the rails. Heretofore Mr. Coe
has been a pretty familiar figure in the
sport o. kings, but in 1918 he intends
to be well up with the front flight.
As a sort Of preliminary TO the
real activities, he has engaged the SER
vices OF Charlie Patterson as trainer
and this means that Tith the right
brand of horsefesh to work with the
Coo colors will be sure to hutter proud
IL in the van. No kecner judge or
shrcwdor MENTOR ii what is best in a
thoroughbred than Patterson exists
an instance of this being the purchase
of Omar Khayyam, the world-famous
three-year-old and winner OF the clas-
sic Kentucky Derby.
Bought Omar khayyam
Omar Khayyam was sold to wired
Viau. the Canadian turfman. for the
moderate sum Of $4,000. 1t was while
in England that Patterson saw the
possibilities of Omar Khayyam, and he
negotiated for the colt while a year
ling for the sum OF $500. The pur-
chase was made for c. X. G. Billings,
and the colt went to the Canadian
when the Billings stable was sold at
auction.
To aid hin. IN ms campaign, Patter-
SON will have TIE services OF Jockey
Rail for the fiat, and Med Henderson
will have the Job Of steering the chasers.
Jerry Carroll. who trained the Coe
fat racers heretofore, and who did not
have the best Of luck, will be retainec
20 look after the jumpers.
To Judge By the amount OF money
spent by Coe in the past year Tor
young blood stock, he is not gong into
The racing game in a half-hearted man
ner. lie paid $4,000 for White haekie
and s11 900 for Hauberk, the latter
horse having the ill-luck o. winning a
selling race after which he was claimed
for $4,000. With the 'chasers better
luck seemed 10 come the way or the
Coe stable. With Town b,ll he won the
Harbor Hill Stakes, one OF the steeple-
chase classics Of the season.
Town Hall is but three-year,oid'
and as the fencers come 10 their best
only when about seven years II VIII be
seen that there ere big things IN store
for the Coe colors over the jumps.
There is a stable mate Of the same age
as Town Hall in Golden Rod, con-
sidered a topnotcher BIZ the critics.
Thirty Flat Racers
At present there are about thirty fiat
racers in tie Coe stable at Belmont
Park, and these will be put in Patter-
sons charge Immediately. A lot more
Youngsters, principally importations
from France and England, lave been
sent to the Coe ranch in Wyoming TO
be cured Of bowed tendons and other
minor ailments resulting from ga,lop-
ing on prepared tracks. In the Old
World the custom is 10 train the
youngsters on turf tracks, but tney
Lecome subject to blows" ard splints
when they are transferred 10 the
harder going here.
Horsemen all over the country will
no doub. be glad that Coe is IN real
earnest over the racing season OF 1918,
for he is one OF the men responsible
for the reestablishment of the sport
after il had reached its lowest ebb on
this side of The Atlantic. Three years
ago. when a lot Of patrons of the sport
contributed 81 ,Oc0 apiece to the Piping
Rock Association pool, Coe was one of
the most enthusiastic of the lot, and
Re has not regretted the part he took
in the affair since.