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St. Simon is a l)ro\vii horse, with :i star on I he forehead 

 and some white on the neai- hind -heel. He was bred Ijy 

 Prince Batthyany in 1881, and is by (Jalopin out of "St. 

 Angela, who was also the dam of Angelica and the grandam 

 of Orme. St. Simon is 16 hands 1 inch in height, and is the 

 property of his grace the Duke of Portland. He commenced 

 his racing career as a two-year-old (1883) by winning the 

 Halnakor Stakes at Goodwood, and at the same meeting he 

 beat the colt by Balfe-Katrine for the Maiden Stakes. At 

 Derby, in the same year, he won the Devonshire Nursery 

 Plate, carrying 8 st. 12 lbs. in a large field; and later, at 

 Doncaster, he won the Prince of Wales' Ntirsery Plate, carry- 

 ing 9 St., and giving I'-t lbs. to the heaviest weighted of his 

 twenty-one opponents. 



He finished up his first season by beating the Dnke of 

 Richmond in a match at ecjiial weights for £500. 



As a three-year-old he continued his unbroken record. 

 Commencing at Newmarket, he won the Trial Match from 

 Tristan, and walked over at Epsom for the Epsom Gold Cup. 

 Later in the year he won the (Jold Cup at Ascot, the Gold 

 Cup at Newmarket, and finished up a Ijrilliant season by 

 winning the Goodwood Cup from (Jssian, who was beaten 

 twenty lengths. 



As a stallion he has l)een widely patr()niz(al, and his stock 

 have displayed an amount of speed and stamina perhaps 

 unprecedented in the annals of the turf. 



His sons and daughters have won more classic races than 

 those of any horse since the time of Stockwell. 



The Derby was won by Persimmon (1890), and Diamond 

 Jubilee (1900); the St. Leger by Memoir (1890), La Fleche 

 (1892), Persimmon (1896), and Diamond Jubilee (1900); 

 the Oaks liy Memoir (1890), La Fleche (1892), Mrs, Butter 

 wick (1893), Amiable (189-1), and La Roche (1900); the Two 

 Thousand Guineas by St. P'rusquin (1896), and l)iamond 

 Jubilee (1900); and the One Thousand Guineas by Semolina 

 (1890), La Fleche (1892), Amiable (1894), and Winnifreda 

 (1900). 



His daughteis lla^■e also been fruitfid of good horsv.s, 

 espeeiall}^ those of the bloud of Hampton and Melbourne. 



In 1896 his stock won £59,710; nearly approaching to 

 that of Stockwell, whose oflspring in 1886 aggregateil the 

 sum of £61,195. 



