MOUNTAIN KING GONE IN THE WIND

t the same St Albans sale that Les Macdonald had purchases Kinglike and Wakeful, John McDonald purchased a mare called Bonnie Rosette with her second Wallace foal at foot and having been served by the same stallion again. John McDonald was forced to go to 700 guineas to secure the rising 14-year-old broodmare and her accompanying foal. He agreed also to lease the attractive chestnut colt to Les Macdonald. He was to be named Scottish King and went on to win three stakes races in the VRC St George, St Helier and St Leger Stakes. He was later to have a moderate career at stud. The filly that was born was an upstanding black filly, subsequently registered as Bonnie Crest. The filly was unraced after dislocating one of her hind fetlocks when being prepared for the 1904 Randwick Spring Meeting. At stud she produced Bonnie Plume who won the 1918 AJC Challenge Stakes, and her legacy continues to this day having produced horses