ST. SIMON’S PROGENY.
Writes our London correspondent:—Th young St. Simons’ seem to be again carrying all before them. At Lincoln Simonian and St. Bridget won the principal two-year-old stakes, and at Leicester on Friday, Lord. Zetland’s Friar I-übin (by St. Simon —Esa) beat a large and high-class field of youngs sters in the Excelsior Breeders’ Fqal Stake?. Friar Lubin’s dam, Esa, is by Uncas, out of Fleada (dam of Bismarck), and won several stakes for Lord Zetland in 1882. The Friar had been highly tested (for a two-year-old at this time of the year), but it wa3 scarcely anticipated he would be. equal to beating Mr Blundle Staple's Prince Hampton, by Royal Humpton Miss Hutton, According to report, the Pripce had cleaned out the three-year-old sprinter Normandy (a recent winner) at even weights. The two favourites and Baron Hirsch’s 2,000 guinea purchase Romanee, which came from Kingsclere with the reputation of being superior to the Liverpool winner Cloudberry, had the finish to themselves. All three ran well, but Friar Lubin finally outstayed the other pair by a length, the judge placing Prince Hampton a short head only in front o Romanee
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 5
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191ST. SIMON’S PROGENY. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 477, 4 June 1890, Page 5
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