" THE HEAD OF THE LIST" 



the year of which we are speaking he was second in 

 the table of winning jockeys, with 156 victorious 

 mounts, eight fewer than Mornington Cannon who 

 came first. T. Loates was a jockey whose services, 

 it need hardly be said, owners were keen to secure 

 whatever weight their horses might have ; but St. 

 Frusquin wanted getting out, so did Persimmon, and 

 Watts in consequence of his strength was better able 

 to give his colt the necessary help. For the rest 

 St. Frusquin ran four races and won them all. The 

 Column Produce Stakes was only worth £778, nor 

 was it a rich Two Thousand, as it amounted that season 

 to no more than £4250 — in 1920 Craig an Earn 

 credited Lord Astor with £8200 — but the Prince of 

 Wales's Stakes in which Persimmon, trying to give 

 3 lb., was beaten half-a-length, totalled £9005 and 

 the Eclipse £9305. T. Loates rode St. Frusquin in 

 his victorious Newmarket race, Watts being again, of 

 course, on Persimmon ; but I do not admit that this 

 vitiates my argument, which is broadly that a 9 st. 

 man, or a man close on that weight, given equal skill, 

 has an advantage over a little jockey who weighs 

 something like a couple of stone less. On the book 

 Persimmon and St. Frusquin come out as nearly as 

 possible the same horse. 



There is no doubt that St. Frusquin might readily 

 have added within a few pounds of another £3000 to 

 the £23,338 which his four races produced, according 



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