" THE HEAD OF THE LIST" 



the following season beat her for the Eclipse Stakes at 

 Sandown. She won the Oaks, however, and going 

 to Ascot took the St. James's Palace Stakes. It was 

 thought worth while to send her to Goodwood, where 

 she ran twice, and she ended the year by easily carrying 

 off the Leger, her five races adding up to £23,195, 

 which enabled Mr. Sievier to come out at the head of 

 the list, his total being £23,686. There was one 

 curious thing about Sceptre. She was beaten in the 

 Derby and at the same meeting won the Oaks. She 

 failed in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot and promptly 

 made up for it by taking the St. James's Palace Stakes. 

 Similarly at Goodwood, after losing the Sussex Stakes on 

 Wednesday she took the Nassau on Friday. Sceptre 

 is now the property of Lord Glanely, and her last 

 offspring, Queen Empress, has a colt foal by He. 



In 1903 Sir James Miller's Rock Sand enabled his 

 owner to lead the way. This was surely one of the 

 luckiest colts, that is to say the colt's owner was one 

 of the luckiest of men ; for Rock Sand, though his 

 winnings were so huge, rather had the way cleared for 

 him in valuable stakes, and when he met Sceptre and 

 Ard Patrick they had no difficulty in reducing him to 

 his level. Rock Sand, a son of Sainfoin and Roque- 

 brune, had only failed once in his seven attempts as a 

 two-year-old, when third to Flotsam and Greatorex 

 for the Middle Park Plate, and as I have been speaking 

 critically of him, it is only fair to say that he beat 



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