PEDIGREE OF PRINCE PALATINE 



several points of view susceptible of the clearest 

 proof. 



If space were unlimited I should like to expatiate 

 at length on Persimmon's sire, St. Simon, generally, 

 as already remarked, rated as one of the two best 

 horses in the annals of the Turf, the other being 

 the invincible Ormonde ; though it is claimed for 

 St. Simon that indirectly he could be made out 

 Ormonde's superior. This argument is advanced 

 in that extremely serviceable volume, Famous 

 Horses, by Mr. Theodore Taunton. Writing of 

 St. Simon he states it to be a fact that as a three- 

 year-old the colt was tried 21 lb. better than the 

 Derby dead-heater of the same year. Harvester, 

 " and his trainer," he adds, " considered him to be 

 at least a stone better than Minting, and therefore 

 superior to Ormonde." But even what so great a 

 trainer as Matthew Dawson "considered" in such a 

 case cannot be accepted as altogether convincing 

 when the form is merely collateral. St. Simon was 

 born in 1881, Minting in 1883, and it is safe to 

 assume that Minting and St. Simon were never 

 tried together. St. Simon by Galopin — St. Angela 

 was never extended. As a two-year-old he won a 

 couple of races at Goodwood, which it might be 

 admitted, if anyone cared to be critical, did not 

 require a great deal of winning ; they earned him 



8 St. 12 lb. in the Devonshire Nursery at Derby, and 



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