[5] Scot Free began his second season in the Craven Stakes over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket Racecourse and started the 6/1 second choice in the betting.
[8] On the eve of the race Fordham said that he was so weak that he might fall out of the saddle but asked that a bet of £5 should be placed on Scot Free on his behalf.
The favourite never looked in any danger of defeat thereafter and accelerated away from his rivals in the closing stages to win by five lengths from St Medard, with Harvester a head away in third.
[10] In the Payne Stakes over ten furlongs at Newmarket two weeks later Scot Free started the 8/15 favourite but was beaten a length by Harvester, to whom he was conceding seven pounds in weight.
[11] Scot Free had never been entered in the Derby Stakes[2] and in his absence Harvester ran a dead heat for first place with St. Gatien.
During a training gallop early in the year, he threw his jockey and attacked another horse, losing several teeth in the ensuing fight.
[15] He began his third season in the £2,000 Leicestershire Spring Handicap over one mile at Leicester Racecourse on 11 April for which he was assigned a weight of 120 pounds.
[17] At Royal Ascot in June Scot Free started second favourite for the Gold Cup over 2+1⁄2 miles but finished last of the four runners behind St. Gatien, Eole and The Dutchman.