PRINCE PALATINE 



King's trainer. This being so I cannot do better 

 than borrow here from what I wrote in the volume 

 mentioned. Many readers will be aware that John 

 Porter, who trained King Edward's flat race horses 

 when first the Royal colours were carried under 

 Jockey Club rules, bought for his master Perdita II., 

 the daughter of Hampton and Hermione who was 

 to become the dam of the three famous brothers, 

 Florizel II., Persimmon and Diamond Jubilee. The 

 mare cost 900 guineas, and her son Persimmon, two 

 years younger than Florizel II., made his first 

 appearance at Ascot in the Coventry Stakes, a race 

 whose title is a commemoration of that good sports- 

 man Lord Coventry's Mastership of the Buckhounds. 

 Persimmon as a matter of course was greatly admired 

 when seen in the paddock, and he justified the admir- 

 ation by winning with the utmost ease. He did not 

 run again till Goodwood, where he took part in the 

 Richmond Stakes, which had previously fallen to 

 several classic winners, as it may be remarked it 

 has since to Handicapper, who carried off the Two 

 Thousand Guineas of 1901 ; to Bayardo, unquestion- 

 ably the best three-year-old of his season, 1909 — 

 notwithstanding that he was beaten in the Two 

 Thousand Guineas and in the Derby, having only 

 the St. Leger to his credit; to Sweeper II., a Two 

 Thousand Guineas winner; to Black Jester, who won 

 St. Leger of 19 14; and to Pommern, victorious in 



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