PEDIGREE OF PRINCE PALATINE 



Derby and Leger of 1850, and by whom Northern 

 lovers of the Turf emphatically swore. There has 

 scarcely been a more famous event in racing history 

 than the match between Voltigeur and The Flying 

 Dutchman, a year Voltigeur's senior and victorious 

 in the same two classics. The Flying Dutchman, 

 it is true, won the match, but it is most strenuously 

 protested, and is said to have been proved by a 

 trial which took place when Voltigeur returned 

 home, that he must have been a stone below his 

 Doncaster form. Voltigeur begot Vedette, who won 

 the Two Thousand Guineas of 1857 for Lord Zet- 

 land. Vedette begot Prince Batthyany's Galopin, 

 doubtless one of the best ever known ; indeed 

 the late John Dawson, with whom I was in close 

 contact for some years, has several times expressed 

 to me his firm belief that Galopin has never had 

 a superior. He was the sire of St. Simon, and 

 from what has just been said about Harvester, it 

 is obvious that St. Simon must have won the Derby 

 in a canter, in fact it is difficult to imagine his 

 being even pressed. St. Simon was the sire of 

 Persimmon, who won the Derby and St. Leger 

 of 1896, and Persimmon was the sire of Prince 

 Palatine, who thus continues the succession. It is 

 impossible to guess what the future may have in 

 store, but it may at least be hoped, and for this 

 hope there seems to be substantial grounds, that 



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