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now touched on a few of the distinctive characteristics of owners, horses, 

 and jockeys in this pivotal year, I need only point out one more record-making fact, in 

 connection with its winning stallions, to establish fairly my claim that the beginning 

 of the twentieth century provides an especially convenient period for a look back 

 upon Turf history as a whole. In 1900 one of the results of Diamond Jubilee's vic- 

 tories was that St. Simon once more came to the top of the list of successful sires, 

 and it is probably unique in the annals of breeding that the same good horse got the 

 five classic winners of a single season, for Winifreda and La Roche were among 



Sculptures from the Parthenon. 

 Stowing Ktuttrn Tyff of Grttk Horu. 



St. Simon's produce, as well as the handsome colt out (APerdita II. With St. Bnotda, 

 Simon Dale, The Gorgon, St. Nitouche, and Boniface, adding to his score-, in addition 

 to the flyers already named, there is little wonder that St. Simon made the gap 

 between himself and Isinglass (the second stallion on the list) a long one. He is 

 also, I believe, the only example of a sire who provided not only two Derby winners 

 for one owner, but also the second horse in jeach of the races which they won. 

 St. Simon is indeed an instance that would take away a good deal of the " glorious 

 uncertainty " of breeding, if it were more common ; for he was unbeaten on the 

 racecourse, and in twelve years his sons and daughters have won nearly 245,000 



