A GREAT YEAR 



from the Turf to earn his brilliant reputation at 

 the stud. 



SKY-ROCKET 



Sky-rocket won a great trial as a two-year-old and 

 had he kept right would surely have been recognised 

 unmistakably for what he was, in the very first class 

 as a racehorse. His breeding is so superb that it 

 would have been a sad mistake not to afford him his 

 chance as a sire. Sky-rocket was a son of Sunstar 

 and Maid of the Mist, thus obtaining the blood of 

 the beautiful Amphion together with that of the 

 great mare Sceptre. He is half brother to the 

 Oaks winner, Sunny Jane, and to the Two 

 Thousand winner, Craig-an-Eran. Unhappily the 

 career of Sunstar was cut short at an early period. 

 He broke down in the Derby, never being able 

 to run again ; but the son of Sundridge and Doris 

 had accomplished enough when carrying Mr. J. B. 

 Joel's black jacket, red cap, firmly to establish his 

 fame, and his success at the stud has been extraordinary. 



Like so many famous horses Sunstar first came out 

 in the New Stakes at Ascot, the date 1910. He was 

 considered to have a good 5 to 1 chance, though there 

 were two better favourites, Seaforth at 5 to 2 and 

 Feramoz at 3 to 1, and the former took the race from 

 a French colt, M. E. de St. Alary's Nerestan. At 

 the Newmarket First July Meeting Sunstar ran for 



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