"'SCEPTRE' WINS!' 



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Formosa. The winner of the One Thousand has never won the Derby ; but the 

 winners of the Oaks who also put the St. Leger to their credit, before Sceptre, 

 were Queen of Trumps (1835), Formosa (1868), Hannah (1871), Marie Stuart 

 (1873), Apology (1874), Jannette (1878), Seabreeze (1888), Memoir (1890), and 

 La Fleche (1892). 



Sceptre passed a healthy and comfortable winter, in Mr. Sievier's ownership, for 

 the reserve price of 24,000 guineas was not reached when she was put up for sale 

 at the Houghton Meeting, and at Doncaster Sir Tatton Sykes had offered 25,000 

 in vain, after the St. Leger. In the spring of 1903 she was privately purchased 

 by Mr. W. Bass of the Tenth Hussars, nephew of Lord Burton, and son of the 

 late Hamar Bass, M.P., 

 owner of Love Wisely, 

 winner of the Ascot 

 Cup in the "yellow, 

 green sleeves and cap," 

 and later on the property 

 of Sir Ernest Cassel. 

 The famous mare went 



on with her sensational ' 



career as gaily as ever 

 in 1903. Ascot was 

 memorable for the suc- 

 cess of Mr. Leopold de 

 Rothschild's St. Amant, 

 Bass Rock, and Kunstler; 

 of Fiancde, owned by Lord Falmouth, whose Quintessence seemed likely to recall 

 the ancient triumphs of Mereworth ; of the King's three-year-old Mead in the 

 Prince of Wales's Stakes ; of the onslaught by the Frenchmen in the Gold Cup. 

 In this race every one regretted that the Duke of Portland's game favourite, 

 William the Third, was unable to appear, and that Sceptre, who would no doubt 

 have carried Mr. Sievier's colours, was not permitted by her new owner to oppose 

 the ioreigners. M. de Bremond won for the second time when Maximum got 

 home without much trouble. In the Alexandra Plate M. E. de St. Alary 's Arizona 

 again lowered the English colours, making all the running from beginning to end 

 of the two miles and three-quarters, and finishing fresher than anything else. 



" Strongbow " (1897) by " Morion '' 

 out of " La Fleche:' 



