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Derby ; and first and second in the St. Leger ; while Lord Lyon only won by a 

 head both at Epsom and Doncaster. Against this, however, St. Simon can put 

 a list containing such flyers on the Turf, such good sires, and such good matrons, 

 as Adieu, Childwick, Raconteur, St. Serf, St. Fmsqirin, St. Maclou, Tarporley, 

 Florizel II., Diamond Jubilee, and Persimmon, William the Third, Roquebrune, La 

 Roche, Bill of Portland, Pietcrmaritzbtirg, Pekin, Raebiirn, St. Florian, Simontault, 

 Amiable, Mrs. Butlerwick, Semolina, Saintly, Memoir, La Fleche, Signorina, and 

 St. Windeline, a filly whose strength and vitality I had the best personal opportunities 

 of verifying in the paddock at Epsom on the day of Sceptres Oaks. It is difficult 

 to say that such successes as are implied in this list were entirely the result of blood, 

 in spite of the three full 

 brothers who were sons 

 of Perdita II., the two 

 full brothers whose dam 

 was Plaisanterie, and the 

 two full sisters who were 

 daughters of Quiver. 

 For Isinglass and Isling- 

 ton were full brothers ; 

 so were Orvieto, Laveno, 

 and Ortolo ; and the 

 difference in their per- 

 formances can only be 

 explained by a differ- 

 ence in framework, and 



not by their breeding. This seems to indicate that very few sires have the power 

 of reproducing their excellence, not only in many of their own offspring, but in 

 the descendants of that offspring too, as was the case with Bend Or, Ormonde, 

 Orme, and Flying Fox, and as is seen in St. Simon, Persimmon, and Sceptre, and 

 in several other cases of the St. Simon blood. Even the best of these stallions 

 again can scarcely ever repeat a sequence of sons from the same mare like those 

 descended from Perdita II. Among modern mares that can be compared with 

 Perdita II., Quiver has been already mentioned. There are also Morganettc, dam 

 of Galtee More, Blair fin rV, and Ard Patrick ; Vista, dam of Bona Vista, Sir 

 Visto, and Velasquez; Mr. Cartwright's Princess of Wales, who bred Albert Victor, 



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