THE CASH VALUE OF ANIMALS.
(To xas EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,--You may perhaps consider it worth while to eorrect.a • slip made in your particularly interesting and informing article in the Spectator of Februag 27th on the above subject. Thewriter states that Seeptre ' "cost 22,000 as a yearling." She cost 10,000 guineas—the bidding for thoroughbred horses at auction is practically always carried on In guineas--and the price is remarkable as being the highest ever paid for colt or filly of this age. The nearest approach is the ' 9,100 guineas •given the same afternoon, July 4th, 1900, for a son of Orme' and 'Kissing Cup,' who came in the catalogue three lots before the daughter of 'Persimmon' and Orna- nient.'• ---Ithipbearer,' as this animal was called, never won. .t1,' race, though in one of his eight attempts he finished first.- This was in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot; but be was disqualified for "boring." In consequence of heavy rains, parts of the couristYlitiV4riag.mire. To-avdd one of these, Cupbearer's 'jockey guided his horse from.a straight course, and was held to have interfered with another competitor. Sceptre,' on the other hand, lum won 238,225 '10s. in stakes; indeed, reckoning in addition what she has 'earned for' running second in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown (which • she lost by 18 in.)'and elsewhere, the total approaches 21,000' more. - She has 'four wadable engagements- for the coming season. At. the end of her racing career Sceptre ' should be worth a great deal beyond the sum originally paid.for her,— probably civer half as much again.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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