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only worth "17,912, or some ,300 more than the twenty- four races scored by the 

 fourteen winners produced from John Porter's stable of sixty-two. Sceptre was also 

 responsible for putting Persimmon at the head of the winning stallions of 1902, a 

 service to the English Turf which more than compensated his Royal owner for only 

 winning two races worth 1,514 during the same year. The Kings magnificent 

 stallion produced eight winners (none older than three years) of sixteen races worth 

 ,36,810, and this just sufficed to beat his wonderful sire St. Simon's record of36, 621, 

 for forty-five victories, by nineteen of his sons and daughters. The late Colonel 

 McCalmont's Isinglass came third with ,27,826, and the fourth sire, Carbine, once more 

 proved the wisdom of 

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in bringing back to 

 England the staunch 

 Musket blood that had 

 been fertilised in 

 Australasia. Two more 

 of St. Simon's sons, 

 St. Frusquin and St. 

 Florian (now dead), 

 were seventh and eighth 

 respectively in the 

 same list ; and, if we 

 judge sires by the 

 success of their 

 daughters as brood- 

 mares, St. Simon again gets ahead of Springfield, Galopin, Wisdom, Archiduc, Hampton. 

 Robert the Devil, Isonomy, and Melton, and only yields in pride of place to Bend Or 

 who, as the sire of Ornament, Sceptre's dam, was superior in this direction to any 

 other stallion in 1902. 



It will therefore be seen that Sceptre's pedigree is interesting not only because of 

 the direct descent of Persimmon in the male line through Galomn to Voltigenr, but also 

 because St. Simon's son was mated to a daughter of Bend Or, the grandson of Stockwell; 

 but a certain school of breeders has arisen which would prefer to emphasize the fact 

 that through Ornament, Sceptre goes back to Lily Agnes, and finally to a " tap-root," 

 or " original mare." which had not produced a classic winner in the female line before 



"Our Nell" (1839) 



