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AN ENGLISH SELLING RACE BARGAIN. It is a coincidence that the only two horses that have won the Kemptou Jubilee twice Victor Wild and Ypsilauti should have been purchased out of selling races, says the London Sportsman, and tlie coincidence is carried further by the facts that they were successful in successive years, that the same jockey rode them on each occasion W. Bradford was on Victor Wild. and Bernard Dillon ou Ypsi-hintDthat they were" respectively live and six years old when they scored, and that there was very little difference in the weights they carried. Ypsilauti was American-bred, by Ca!ore Stcfaucttc. and for Mr. It. Croker ran twice once placed third before winning a selling plate at Hurst Park, the performance impressing Mr. A. P. Cunliffe so favorably that, though entered to be sold for only 50, he went to ,100 to possess liiiu. For his new owner he eame near to victory in the Osmaston Nursery at Derby, but next season quite recovered his purchase moiiiy by accounting for a stake at Liverpool Spring iiud the May P.ate at Kemptou. He was more or less forward for tlie remainder of that season, his best performance being In following Revenue and Uoyal George home for the Duke of York Stakes. He had little to show for his four-year-old career, hut was equal to winning the Chesterfield Cup at !oodwood, with some usi f ul ones behind liiiu, and lluishcd with a third for tlie Derby Gold Cup. Iu 1903 Cr. 1iiuliHVs horse madn a good show behind Over Norton ami Portcullis for. the Lincolnshire Handicap which Sceptre essayed to win for the second time, and was fifth and his third on Hint occiison Hiinted to his chance for the Jubilee, ill which Dillons apprentice allowance brought his impost to 113 pounds, and he was an easy winner by a itll: lb Mini a lia f. much to the satisfaction of the connect iens of Fallons stable, whose lead was largely followed by tin; general public. Ypsilauti had imother try for the Derby Oold Cup. but 120 pounds was a different burden from hs previous one, and lie was unplaced. The following year was unite a triumph for the ex-selling plater, for he went through unchecked in Kiigland. and only knew a reverse when lie was sent to Paris in the autumn, and got third in the Prix de Nowniarkt t. He led off at Kemptou by cantering away with the Queens Prize under 120 ixmiids, next won a l!ttle race at Liugticld, and then as in the case of Victor Wild showed Ids liking for the Siinbury course by a second victory in lhe Jubilee. His i:;t pounds included a ten iHiinid penalty for his previous success on the ; ground, iiiul I was an excellent performance to heat the four year-hl Corisicr and gave him no less than IS pounds. He li! little to do afterwards, for Ills three subsequent races included a couple of walkovers. There is no need to rccapituate his doii-rs in 1905. for tlcv were nil easy tasks but two. One was iu tlie Jubilee again, but hi his third essay he - had to! up and was iiiiihieed: and the other was iu the Pevcri! of die Peak Plate at Derbv in the au-tinili. when he was hacked to win under l.il and failed. After that year Ypsilauti did nothing of const-queiice, and laving won a CO plate in 1000 i and another in 1!07. he was sold to go to America in the latter year. It can he said of him that lie was n good horse over ids own distance, and a Iudi-clous rescue from selling-plate ranks. ypslanti is now standing at the stud of .7. E. Seagram, president of the Ontario Jockey Club, at Waterloo, Ont.
