HIS MAJESTY'S LOSS
FAMOUS ■ RACING MARE DEATH OF SCUTTLE OCCURS ONLY CLASSIC' EVENT WINNER (Received March 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 15 The King'i' stud at Sandringham has suffered severe loss by,the death of the famous inare Scuttle, His Majesty's only classic race winner. The mare expired after the "birth of a foal by Glanelys, a St. Leger winner. Scuttle was .a bay mare by Captain Cuttle from Stained Glass. She had the distinction of being the only horse owned by His Majesty to win a classic race, gaining "that honour when she won the One Thousand Guineas in 1928. As - a two-year-old Scuttle won three of her five races, her victories including the Fitzwilliam Stakes at Doncastfer, the Berkshire Foal Plate at Newbury and the Cheveley Park Stakes," worth £IB3O, at Newmarket. She had six starts as a three-year-old, winning the Brandon Handicap and the One Thousand Guineas, worth £8470, both at Newmarket, besides running second to Toboggan in the Oaks._ Scuttle's retirement was brought about when she broke down in a gallop before the Kempton Park Jubilee Handicap, for which she was favourite, a few aays prior to the race. She had to be scratched and was forthwith sent to the Sandringham Stud, where she had been bred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21751, 16 March 1934, Page 9
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