HE, SKY-ROCKET, AND TRECLARE 



the Exeter Stakes, one of the earliest six furlong races 

 of the season. It hardly seemed probable at the time 

 that the colt would stay, and a multitude of two-year- 

 olds who win easily at five furlongs find the additional 

 furlong too much for them. Sunstar, however, lasted 

 well and secured the race by a neck from Major 

 Eustace Loder's Canvas-back, Mr. H. P. Whitney's 

 Borrow unplaced. This American colt was supposed 

 to be the chief danger to Sunstar, and with good cause, 

 his merit being so considerable that he won the Middle 

 Park Plate from Seaforth and Pietri. I believe also 

 since his repatriation he has gained a speed record in 

 the United States. Sunstar 's two-year-old career, it 

 will be seen, was an example of what at roulette are 

 called intermittences, a defeat being always followed 

 by a success. In the Lavant Stakes at Goodwood he 

 was beaten by Mr. S. B. Joel's St. Nat, an anticipated 

 result. Then he won the International Two- Year-Old 

 Plate at Kempton, as was also anticipated. Again he 

 was beaten, a short head and two lengths by Pietri 

 and Wrinkler for the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, 

 and then he earned brackets by dead-heating for the 

 Hopeful Stakes at the Newmarket First October with 

 Borrow. Sunstar gave 3 lb., which was merely weight 

 for sex, as Borrow is a gelding. 



From two-year-old to three years old Sunstar made 

 excellent progress, and in his second season was never 



beaten. He reappeared in the Two Thousand 



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