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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



give 2olb. and a bad beating to the St. Leger winner in a rough gallop before 

 the race, and many think his form was never equalled by any other horse of 

 his century. S(. Simon always objected to being tied up during his toilet, and 

 C. Fordham told Mr. Sydenham Dixon that Job himself would not have had 

 the patience to look after him. Unbeaten in his Turf career, like Ormonde, he 

 was beaten, like Ormonde, in his first trial. His constitution and his appetite 

 were perfect the whole time he was in training, and his spirits were always very 

 high. The financial results of his victories, of course, by no means represent 

 his form, for his best nominations were void, and not only did all courses seem 

 alike to him, but he did not ever seem to find it necessary to extend himself. 



Even as he looks at 

 tne stutl to-day, in the 

 picture reproduced in 

 these pages, he shows 

 a wonderful combination 

 of points in one animal : 

 a good stifle, powerfully 

 muscular hind legs, quar- 

 ters, and loins, a short 

 back, a grand slope of 

 the shoulder, a good 

 humerus, with a free 

 elbow and a long fore- 

 hand. Of his prowess 

 as a sire I have already 



written at length. He has sired more high-class animals, collectively, than even 

 Stockwell did. Still, if we take the ,59,302 which his produce won in 1896, it 

 cannot compare with the ,61,047 which was won by 37 representatives of the 

 older sire in 1866 in 139 races, which did not contain such valuable prizes as 

 were to be won thirty years later. The biggest winner was Lord Lyon with 

 .20,350, and next to him came that exceptionally good mare Achievement with 

 .10,662 to her credit, besides Breadalbane (brother to Blair Athol], The Duke, 

 Lord Ronald, Regalia, Rustic, and Savernake. It must be remembered, too, that 

 in that most remarkable season Stockwell sired first and second for the Two 

 Thousand ; the winner of the One Thousand ; first, second, and third in the 



" William the Third'" (1898) by " St. Simon.'' 



