MUSKET—ST. SIMON CROSS
Of the 22 starters in this year's Melbourne Cup eighteen had at least, one strain of Musket's great son Carbine, the 1890 winner, in their pedigrees. Catalogue not only has Musket blood but he has a double crossing of Musket in St. Simon, once looked upon as the most valuable of all crossings for staying thoroughbreds. Catalogue got his dash of Musket through Carbine's greatest English son, Spearmint, winner of the 1906 Derby, Spearmint's son, Catmint, the maternal grandsire of Catalogue, is out of Red Lily, who was by the St. Simon horse Persimmon. Persimmon won the Derby in 1896 in the Royal cplours, and a good staying brother to Persimmon, also raced and bred by the Prince of Wales, was Florizel 11, sire of the dam (Lady Quex) of Lord Quex, the sire in turn of Catalogue. The first St. Simon —Musket cross is therefore in Catmint, and it is doubled up in the mating of Catmint's daughter Catalani with Lord Quex.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 24
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166MUSKET—ST. SIMON CROSS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 24
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