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first-rate expectations as The Bard, Energy, Silvio, Border Minstrel, Flying Fox, and 

 Childwick, it will be seen that up to the beginning of the twentieth century 

 England has not only bred for her own Turf but has provided the best blood 

 for every other country ; including many American purchases ; and this should 

 always be remembered in any consideration of modern breeding possibilities, or in 

 any comparison of the present day with periods belore these costly exportations began. 

 Against the sixty-six stallions advertised for 1780, which I reproduce in the 

 appendix from the Racing Calendar for 1779, let us put the 403 advertised 

 stallions of 122 years later, as recorded in " Ruffs Guide " for 1901, which adds the 

 information that, in 

 1900, 706 foals and 

 yearlings were sold 

 at an average price 

 of 252 guineas, the 

 highest figure realised 

 being ten thousand 

 guineas for the filly 

 by Pirsimm n out of 

 Ornament, giving a 

 total of 178,176 

 guineas. It should be 

 remembered also that 

 St. Simon, in 1901, 

 commanded the ex- 

 traordinary fee of six 



hundred guineas, and that Melton and Persimmon brought four hundred guineas 

 and three hundred guineas respectively. St. Simon not only headed the 

 list of winning sires in 1901 with .28,769 (December i4th) to the 26,606 

 of Lac/as (whose stock have only raced for three years), but one of his sons, 

 Florizel II. , was third with .23,667, (the oldest of his stock being three-year- 

 olds), and another, St. Frusgnin, was fifth with 11,417, the fourth place being 

 taken by Gallinnle with 20,455. Of all the rest only Ayrshire reached five 

 figures. Only seventy-three beat the ,1,5 V recorded by the American, Kingston. 

 Only 163 out of over 400 won more than ,500. In the same season it cannot be 

 said that the three-year-olds were more than moderate, for in the list from Highflyer 

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