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THE MANNER OF COLT SCEPTRES SON IS. At Newmarket, October 3, the three-year-old colt Grosvenor won the Great Foal Stakes, at a mile and a quarter, and great was the rejoicing in some quarters. Grosvenor is a son of the grand mare Sceptre and his victory led "The Special Commissioner" to say in London Sportsman of the next day. "The most interesting race of today was for the Great Foal Stakes. The Mauton people declared for Escoiuh, by Challacombe Escalade, thougli on what grounds he was preferred to the lengthy, powerful Grosvenor I do not know, and there must have been a conflict of opinion on the subject, for Grosvenor was well backed at 6 to 1. 1 understand that this son of Cicero and Sceptre did not seem to stay any too well in his recent long-distance gallop at home, but that one can well understand, for he is still backward and with an Immense frame, but a race like that of today will have brought him on no end. He blew hard after it, and may- be a bit thick-winded after the manner of his dam, which could always be passed sound when clean wound up, as on doubt Grosvenor needs to be. He is built a good deal on Sceptres lines, witli much of her character in his head. His hind quarters and legs could not be bettered, and his fore-legs are as good as his dams, which is not to say that they are perfection. Mr. Tattersall was naturally well pleased to win this good race with a colt of his own breeding, and that, too, out of Sceptre, which I expect he is sorry he sold to Mr. Masker, together with her daughter, Curia, some time ago. Mr. Musker has mated Sceptre with Glenesky, and, of course, he has a perfect right to do what he likes with his own. As to Grosvenor, which won in really commanding style today from his stable companion, Escomb, with Atheling, which conceded fifteen pounds, third, no decision whether he will start for the Jockey Club Stakes will be arrived at until tomorrow, but if he has fed up and pulls out all right I should think he is sure to run, for he evidently takes after his dam a great deal, and In her case a race on more than one occasion brought her on about fourteen pounds at least. Who does not remember how she blew like a grampus at Goodwood after being beaten, and then won in a canter the next afternoon affer having done a strong gallop that morning? From hip to roundbone Grosvenor has . the Ormonde formation, but lie is a lengthier horse than Ormonde and stands on a shorter leg."
