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extreme quality, and in my opinion he showed in his con- 

 formation much more of the Arab type than is usually found 

 in English racehorses. His dam was The Flying Duchess by 

 The Flying Dutchman out of Merope by Voltaire ; thus the 

 horse was inbred to Blacklock. He had not the same quiet 

 manners which were attributes of many of his ancestors, he 

 being on the contrary a somewhat irritable horse. This 

 irritability has been inherited by some, but by no means by all 

 of his stock ; and whilst Galloping Dick was at times a mad 

 horse, and the Two Thousand winner Disraeli a very curious- 

 tempered one, the St. Simon family are generally possessed 

 of placid tempers, and notably Persimmon had perfect race- 

 course manners. As a yearling Galopin cost the late Prince 

 Batthyany but 500 guineas, and as a two-year-old he won 

 five of the six races for which he started, being beaten " two 

 heads " for the Middle Park Plate, won by Plebian. Galopin 

 was giving the winner 1 1 lbs., and would probably have won 

 had he not been knocked about a good deal in the race. In 

 the following year he won the Derby, but he was not 

 engaged in the St. Leger, and his great work of that autumn 

 was his defeat of Lowlander in a ;^ 1,000 match on the 

 Rowley Mile. He also beat the St. Leger winner, Craig 

 Millar, in a canter for the Newmarket Derby, and in the 

 following spring was sent to the stud. No doubt his best 

 son was St. Simon, though Donovan won much more money 

 in stakes during his turf career. Donovan, though just 

 beaten for the Guineas, won the Derby and the St. Leger of his 

 year, and in his so far short stud career has sired Velasquez, 

 winner of a ;^ 10,000 stake at Newmarket in 1897. Not 

 many classic winners of note have been sired by Galopin 

 except Donovan, but Galliard and Disraeli won the Two 

 Thousand Guineas, Galeottia the One Thousand Guineas, 

 and Donovan and St. Simon were good enough to " make " 

 any horse from the paddock point of view. 



Galopin died early in June, 1899, aged twenty-seven, full of 

 stud honours, for he was the winning sire of 1898, and he had 

 completed a full service of mares for the benefit of posterity. 



St. Simon is the great stud success of modern times, and 

 in all probability if he lives through a few more seasons 



