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SCEPTRE BRED TO EIGHT SIRES. Sceptre, says the English writer Audax in Horse and Hounds, has liecn covered by eight different stallions sii-ce going to the stud — Carbine, Cicero, Cy llene, Olenesky, Isinglass, Marco, Swyuford anil William Rufns. As to whether the using of so many different stallions is a wise policy, opinions greatly differ, but the late Lord Falmonth, who bred witii such success, believed In change. The other side of the picture shows St. Simon doing well with Perdita II. , Florizi 1 II., Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee, and another extremely successful blend was Hermit and Devotion, Thebais, Clairvaux, St. Marguerite, etc.
