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A HISTORY Of 1 THE ENGLISH TURI'\ 



which put her on a level with any filly that ever raced. Her record as a three- 

 year-old has never been surpassed, and only approached by Formosa, who also 

 won the One Thousand, Oaks, and Leger, but only ran a dead-heat for the 

 Two Thousand, with Moslem, who afterwards proved to be a very inferior horse. 

 Sceptre's owner, though he had been racing for many years, had only quite 

 recently been identified with stable management and training. At the late Duke 

 of Westminster's sale of yearlings he bought Scetitrc for 10,000 guineas, and 

 Dnkz of Westminster for 5,400 guineas, the latter of whom he sold for 21,000 

 guineas after winning a couple of races worth about ,3,000. As two-year-olds the 



pair were trained by 

 Charles Morton ; but 

 after a short interval 

 in charge of an 

 American named 

 Davis, Sceptre passed 

 entirely into her 

 owner's keeping, and 

 turned out far the best 

 of her year. Of course 

 she was a wonder- 

 ful filly to begin with, 

 but no trainer can 

 do anything with a 

 poor horse, and to 

 have been so successful 

 with one of the high-spirited St. Simon blood would be a rare feather in the cap of 

 the most experienced. Her breeding was of the best, as may be seen from 

 her pedigree in the appendix. 



Sceptre's successes brought Mr. Sievier's name to the top of the list of winning 

 owners, and of trainers too, as far as the value of the stakes is concerned ; for he only 

 began the season with fifteen horses in training, and won ten races (worth .23,686) 

 with five animals. R. Marsh, of Egerton House, with sixty-seven horses in train- 

 ing, produced fourteen winners, with ,21,997 f r their ten races. W. Waugh, of 

 Falmouth House, who was first in 1901, fell to fifth in 1902, for though he got 

 thirty winners out of his forty-seven horses, the sixty seven races they secured were 





The Marquis of Wcsftninstci-' l s 

 "Safirist" (1838) by " Panfaloon." 



