Pretty Polly & Sceptre.

Photolithographiccoloured.print by Lionel Edwards of 2 mares, Pretty Polly & Sceptre - Pretty Polly, (foaled 1901), English racehorse (Thoroughbred) who won 22 of 24 races in her four-year career and earned more than $130,000. Pretty Polly was foaled by Admiration and sired by Gallinule. Exceptional from the start of her career, the two-year-old filly won her first race, the British Dominion Plate at Sandown, by 10 lengths according to the official record, but the consensus placed the margin of victory at about 40 lengths. She won her eight other races of the 1903 season and seven races of eight in 1904, including the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket and the Saint Leger.Sceptre (1899?1926) was a British-bred and British-trained Thoroughbred race mare whose career ran from 1901 to 1904. In 1902, she became the only racehorse to win four British Classic Races outright. Sceptre was bred by Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster at his Eaton Stud in Cheshire and was foaled on 9 April 1899. Her sire, Persimmon, had won The Derby and St. Leger in 1896 and the Eclipse Stakes and Ascot Gold Cup in 1897.