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The American "Thoroughbred 



without one defeat. He was struck out of all his yearling engagements through the 

 death of his breeder, Prince Casimir Batthyany, or he would have won beyond doubt 

 "the triple crown" which has been won by nine horses, of whom at least six were man- 

 ifestly his inferiors. As it was he won the Halnaker Stakes at Goodwood, the Maiden 

 Stakes at the same place, the Devonshire Nursery with 124 pounds, and the Prince of 

 Wales' Nursery Plate, in the last of which he carried 126 pounds and beat twenty 

 others, of which Belinda with 109 pounds had the highest weight. Next year he was 

 barred from the classics but he bagged the Epsom, Ascot and Goodwood Cups with 

 most ridiculous ease, beating the great Tristan and three others at Ascot and Chisle- 

 hurst at Goodwood. Frederick Archer said he had ridden four Derby and five St. 

 Leger winners and St. Simon was the best horse he ever rode. On his retirement 

 to the stud he got winners from the very bginning, among them that good horse St. 

 Serf and the flying filly Signorina, owned by the Italian Prince Ginistrelli. As a 

 sire of classic winners St. Simon goes down to history as the equal of Stockwell, be- 

 cause, while he got only four St. Leger winners to Stockwell's six he got five winners 

 each of the Oaks and One Thousand to Stockwell's one. The peculiarity of St. Simon, 

 as a sire is that he not only has headed the list of sires for nine seasons but headed it 

 in 1901 without a single classic winner to his credit ; and this year he is second to 

 Gallinule under like conditions and ahead of his own son St. Frusquin, who furnished 

 the Two Thousand and Derby winner, St. Amant. Moreover, he is the only stallion 

 since Newminster to get two premier sires, Persimmon in 1902 and St. Frusquin in 

 1903, while another of his sons, Florizel II, who got both the Derby and St. Leger 

 winners of that year, was second to him by a narrow margin in 1901. I saw several 

 of his sons while in England in 1901 and liked Florizel best of all. Persimmon re- 

 minded me very much of our pioneer California stallion, Williamson's Belmont, whom 

 Colonel Gift so aptly styled the "Godolphin of the Wilderness ;" and has on him a 

 hind leg that would be considered perfect by our more intelligent breeders of trotting 

 horses. St. Frusquin is a trifle coarse to my eye but he gets some great horses. The 

 following table shows what old St. Simon has done this year as the sire of winners, 

 together with the achievements of his several sons up to September I5th : 



HORSE AND YEAR FOALED. 



St. Simon 1881 



St. Frusquin 1893 



Florizel 1800 



St. Serf 1887 



St. Hilaire - 



Tarporley 1890 



Desmond 1891 



SIRE AND DAM. 



Galopin St. Angela 

 St. Simon Isabel 

 Simon Perdit 

 Simon Feronia 

 St. Simon Dist. 

 St. Simon Ruth 

 St. Simon L'Abbess 



St. 

 St. 



58,344 



This is $282,968 in American money, computing by the bank rate of $4.85 for each 

 pound, sovereign (or quid) of English money. Not a bad showing, especially when 

 the reader stops to consider that the old horse is over $5000 ahead of the best of all his 

 sons. His daughters are breeding well and throwing good winners to all sorts and 

 conditions of sires. Only one son of St. Simon Dunure, out of Sunrise has been 

 taken over to Austro-Hungary, but there were three sons of.Galopin's covering there in 

 1900. These were Guerrier, out of St. Kilda; and Ganache and Gaga, both out of 

 Red Hot. The latter is a great favorite with the breeders and his fee is $500 tfo 

 mares owned by foreigners and $400 to those owned by natives of Austria or Hungary. 

 He won th Derby at Vienna, a feat repeated in 1900 by his. son Arulo. 



That most intelligent of American breeders, Mr. J. B. Haggin, has imported sev- 

 eral sons of St. Simon, Bassetlaw and Greenan being the most prominent. He has 



