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he will stand out as the stallion whose actual sons and 

 daughters have won the greatest amount of stake money. 

 At present the total for eleven seasons of stud life is something 

 like ;^2 50,000; but it must be remembered that a present- 

 day stallion of the best class has a far better chance of 

 making a good score than had such as Stockwell, or any 

 of the older horses, whose sons and daughters competed 

 for far less valuable prizes. St. Simon came on the scene 

 very shortly after the institution of the ten-thousand-pound 

 prize, and such as La Fleche, Raeburn, St. Frusquin, Per- 

 simmon, and Diamond Jubilee had the chance of winning far 

 more money than had any of the get of Stockwell, or that 

 of his contemporaries. Great as St. Simon's success has 

 been, I still hold that Stockwell's title of " The Emperor 

 of Stallions" has not yet been taken from him, but if the 

 great Welbeck sire has a few more good years he will no 

 doubt go to the top of the tree. 



St. Simon was foaled in 1881, was bred by the late Prince 

 Batthyany, and is by Galopin out of St. Angela by King 

 Tom, her dam Adeline by Ion out of Little Fairy by 

 Hornsea, out of Lacerta by Zodiac, out of Jerboa by 

 Gohanna. King Tom was by the famous Harkaway, out 

 of the equally famous Pocahontas. Harkaway was famous 

 as a long-distance runner, and also at the stud, but Poca- 

 hontas was chiefly famous as a brood mare, and also bred 

 Stockwell and Rataplan to the Baron. The pedigree of 

 Adeline, the dam of St. Angela, does not contain so many 

 well-known strains that are in favour at the moment. She 

 was by Ion, a direct descendant in tail male of the Byerly 

 Turk ; and Hornsea, the sire of Little Fairy, was by the 

 Blacklock horse Velocipede, this being the only strain of 

 the famous Bishop Burton stallion which St. Simon inherits 

 through his dam. Galopin, on the other hand, has three 

 crosses of Blacklock, but on the whole St. Simon is rather 

 an outbred horse as far as his later pedigree is concerned. 

 In appearance St. Simon is of the big upstanding sort ; to 

 my eyes he was rather on the leg when in training, and 

 a similar remark applies to many of his colts. He stands 

 16 hands i inch, girths 6 feet 6 inches, and measures below 



