PEDIGREE OF PRINCE PALATINE 



in traininof. Towards the end of her career she 

 simply declined to go on to the Limekilns to do her 

 work, and there was an ever present possibility 

 that this strain in her nature would develop in her 

 progeny. 



In the early summer Persimmon went so well one 

 mornino' that Marsh wrote a delig;hted letter to Lord 

 Marcus Beresford begging him to come down and 

 see the colt gallop, dwelling on the dash and vigour 

 which he was displaying. Lord Marcus arrived 

 accordingly. Persimmon was started for a spin with 

 Courtier, Safety Pin and Chinkara, bad animals, or at 

 any rate very moderate ones, who should not have 

 been able to make him do more than canter; but 

 this time the hope of the stable was very far indeed 

 from distinguishing himself. He was a horse of 

 moods who had his day, though most happily these 

 moods only overtook him in his ordinary work ; when 

 on a racecourse the soft strain which it was always 

 feared he might have inherited from his dam was 

 never apparent. A few days afterwards when Lord 

 Marcus was not present to have his recent impres- 

 sions corrected — for he had naturally gone away 

 in despondent humour — Persimmon again began to 

 move in his best form, and shortly before the Derby 

 it was thought well to try him regularly. Their 

 Royal Highnesses the then Prince and Princess of 

 Wales were graciously pleased to be present with 



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