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AN ENGLISH SELLING RACE BARGAIN BARGAINIt It is a coincidence that the only two horses that have won the Kempton Jubilee twice Victor Wild and Ypsilaiiti should have been purchased out of selling races says the London Sportsman and the coincidence 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 on Ypsi lanti that they were respectively five and six years old when they scored and that there was little difference in the weights they carried Ypsilnnti was Americanbred by Galore Stefanette and for Itichard Croker ran twice once placed third l efore winijiiig a selling date at Hurst Park the perform ¬ ance impressing A P Cunliffe so favorably that though entered to be sold for only 250 he went to 2100 to possess him For his new owner he came neir to victory in the Osmanston Nursery at Derby but next year quite recovered his pur ¬ chase money by accounting for a stake at Liverpool Spring and the May Plate at Kempton He was more fir less forward for the remainder of that year his best performance being in following Revelino and Royal George home for the Duke of York Stakes He had little to show for his fouryearold career but was equal to winning the Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood with some useful ones behind him and finished with a third for the Derby Gold Cup CupIn In 1903 Mr Cunliffes horse made a good show behind Over Norton and Portcullis for the Lincoln ¬ shire Handicap which Sceptre essayed to win for the second time and was fifth and his third on that occasion pointed to his chance for the Jubilee in which Dillons apprentice allowance brought his impost to 113 pounds and he was an easy winner by a length and a half much to the satisfaction of the connections of Fallons stable whose lead was largely followed by the general public Ypsilanti had another try for the Derby Gold Cup but 120 pounds was a different burden from his previous one and he was unplaced The following year was quite a triumph for the exselling plater for he went through unchecked in England and only knew a reverse when he was sent to Paris in the autumn and got third in the Prix de Newmarket He led off at Kempton by cantering away with the Queens Prize under 12 pounds next won a little race at Lingfield and then as in the case of Victor Wild showed his liking for the Sunbury course by a sec ¬ ond victory in the Jubilee His 131 pounds included a tenpound penalty for his previous success on the ground and It was an excellent performance to beat the fouryearold Corisier and save him nc less than fortyeight pounds He had little to do afterwards for his three subsequent races included a couple of walkovers There is no need to recapitulate hi doings in 1905 for they were all easy tasks but two One was in the Jubilee again but in his third essay he had 139 uji and was unplaced and the other was hi the Peveril of the Peak Plate at Derby in the au ¬ tumn when he was backed to will under 131 and failed After that year Ypsilanti did nothing of consequence and having won a 500 plate in 1900 and another in 1907 he was sold to go to America in the latter year It can be said of him that he was a good horse over his own distance and a judi ¬ cious rescue from sellingplater ranks ranksYpsilanti Ypsilanti is now standing at the stud of J E Seagram president of the Ontario Jockey Club at Waterloo Out
