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NOTABLE BARGAINS OF THE ENGLISH TURF. Continued from first page. the next year Rlaek Sand won two races in quick succession and then changed hands again, a man named Pritchard buying him for ,10!. Tliis was a bargain, indeed, for although mack Sand started twice he won on both occasions. As a four-vear-old the horse showed great improvement, running second for the Cesarewitch and for the Manchester November Handicap, being beaten only a head in each case. The next season Black Sanil fullv recompensed his owner for the ill luck experienced in these two races by winning the Cesarewitch in a canter with 114 pounds on his back. To counterbalance the loss of P.lack Sand Sir James Miller had previously bought Chaleureux out of a selling race and won the Cesarewitch with him. To prove a real bargain it is not necssary that a race horse should be bought cheap. One notable instance is that of Sceptre, for which R. S. Siever paid 0,000 when a yearling to the Duke of Westminster. It seemed to be a foolhardy deal to some, but tic; great mare won throe out of the five classics and altogether 25,000 in stakes. The filly Kate, which won the One Thousand Guineas in 18.12, was bought for 50 from the late Lord Allington and the Honorable Henry Curzon. She turned out so badly as a two-year-old that they decided to dispose of her, and they had the mortification afterward to see her come home in the big fillies race.
