PERSIMMON'S DAM DIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 35

PERSIMMON'S DAM DIES.

The Sandringham stud has just sustained 1 : a serious loss by the death of the well-known brood mare, Perdita 11, whose name will long be remembered as the dam of Persimmon, the winner for the Prince of Wales of thehistoric Derby of 1696, as well as the St. Leger and other events of importance. The mare also produced another good horse iaFlorizel 11, who was the winner of the St.. James's Palace Stakes and Gold Vase at Ascot, Prince's Handicap at Gatwick, Manchester Cup, Goodwood Cup, Jockey Club Cup, and other useful races; and others credited ta her are Sandringham (he has, however, sofar failed to stand a preparation, and has yet. to appear in public), and the disappointing • Diamond Jubilee, who, in the July Stakes, gave a rare exhibition of waywardness. Tha Sportsman reports that Perdita II was bred by Lord Cawdor in 1881, and was by Hampton out of Hermione, by Y. Melbourne out ot" La Belle Helene, by St. Albans, and as 'a juvenile won, in addition to a couple •of Selling Races, the Chesterfield Nursery Handicap at Derby, the latter' race for Mr A. Benholm. In the same ownership she did fairly

•11 as a three-year-old in accounting for the "\t Cheshire Handicap and the Ayr Gold -Oth>, V '-, was a great disappointment the fol"*pT7in[ --c -son, when she appeared in public on "jieven -~asions without success. As a five-'npr-ok ie repeated her victory in the Great Cheshire. Tandicap, and shared with Middlefiarpe ti.3 honour of winning the Liverpool l ~«p iv July, as the stakes were divided after » dead ..eat, and she last ran for the Markeai TTe! '.er Handicap at Derby in November, iishi_g second to Wire. The mare was then rcjased by John Porter, on behalf of the i'rince of "Wales, for £900.