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he asserted his three-year-old superiority to Minting, and 

 thenceforward that horse was kept out of his way until 

 the Hardwicke Stakes of the following year. On that 

 occasion Ormonde was going off, but nothing was wrong 

 with Minting. Still, the Kingsclere horse won by a neck, and 

 the form has always been made more of than it deserved, 

 because Bendigo was beaten by a long way for second place, 

 Bendigo, however, was dead amiss on the occasion. He had 

 been off his feed since he arrived at Ascot, and was really 

 in no condition to show his best form. This statement 

 is made on the authority of Jousiffe, who trained Mr. 

 Barclay's horse, and who not very long afterwards wrote 

 me a long letter on the subject. Whether Ormonde or 

 St. Simon was the better horse is a question that cannot 

 be answered and is purely a matter for guesswork. Each 

 won every time he ran ; and if I have always in my mind 

 had a preference for St. Simon, it was because he was a 

 great Cup horse and an extraordinary stayer. 



Curiously enough, the best of St. Simon's early stock 

 were fillies, and he had sired three winners of the One 

 Thousand, four winners of the Oaks, and two winners of the 

 St. Leger (both fillies) before he had given us a winner of 

 the Two Thousand or Derby. This feat he accomplished with 

 St. Frusquin and Persimmon in 1896, and as Persimmon also 

 won the St. Leger, and Diamond Jubilee the triple crown in 

 1900, when Winifreda and La Roche won the One Thousand 

 and Oaks respectively, St. Simon has been responsible for the 

 winners of seventeen classic races up to the present time. 

 Memoir, Signorina, and St. Serf were the first to bring St, 

 Simon into high repute as a stallion, and the last-named 

 would probably have won the Derby had he not been kept 

 for the Epsom Grand Prize instead. Under any circum- 

 stances, he was a better horse than the actual winner. Sainfoin, 

 and it may also be written of him (St. Serf) that he was the 

 first St. Simon horse to become a stud success. He has 

 already sired a classic winner, who credited the Prince of 

 Wales with the One Thousand in 1896, and in the past year 

 he held a high place in the list of winning sires. Already 

 his stock have won ;^50,ooo in stakes, and the horse is now 



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