HE, SKY-ROCKET, AND TRECLARE 



on by carrying his penalty in the Cambridgeshire. 

 For the second race he had been weighted with 7 St. 

 5 lb., and the extra stone did not stop him. See Saw, 

 his sire, is the horse of whose Cambridgeshire victory 

 a story is told. Somebody who believed he would 

 receive a very handsome legacy from an aunt found to 

 his chagrin that the extent of it was j£ioo, and in his 

 disappointment he determined to throw it away by 

 backing the longest priced horse in the approaching 

 Cambridgeshire. See Saw was his choice, and the 

 £100 grew to £3300, for about the colt he was able to 

 book odds at the rate of 100 to 3. 



Reverting to Sunstar's dam it must be admitted that 

 Doris, the daughter of Loved One and Lauretta, 

 appeared as unlikely to produce a Derby winner as 

 well-nigh any mare that could have been named. As 

 regards her doings when in training she ran nine times. 

 I must have seen her on nearly every occasion, that is 

 to say watched the races in which she took part, with- 

 out, however, paying any attention to the filly, and I 

 have no recollection of her. She came out in 1900 

 for the Worksop Plate at Leicester and won it by a 

 neck, the value of the race being exactly £100. After 

 four misses she won the Juvenile Selling Plate, worth 

 £195, at Epsom, by a head, the race which immediately 

 preceded Diamond Jubilee's Derby, and was bought 

 in for 300 guineas. In three subsequent selling races 

 she was beaten, and I believe that Mr. S. B. Joel gave 



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