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alone; amounted to ,£11,350.. During tie twelve ea'sons Persimmon was at the stud he sired 97 individual winners, whose stake ' earnings totalled ,£221,093. Hs best performers ' were : Sceptre, .£38,283; Prince -Palatine. ■£31.034; Your Majesty, £20.486-; Zinfandel, £13,106; Keystone IL,"£i2 837; and Cheers £10.575. Persimmon himself won £34,726 in stakes, but he never sired a winner of the Derby though in all probability any of his three 'sons Zinfandel, Your Majesty, and Prince Palatine, 'could have won nine Derbies out of ten; and though Sceptre did ndt win the blue ribbon, she was clearly the best of the year. Following is a list of Persimmon's classic winners: — 1902: — Sceptre: Two Thousand Guineas; One Thousand Guineas, Oaks, St. Leger. iqo6— Keystone II.: Oaks, 1908— Your .Majesty : St. Leger. 1909— '- Perola: Oaks. 191 1 — Prince Palatine : St. Leger. It s a thousand pities that Persimmon lost his life as he did He . fractured his pelvis and thigh bone at exercise and. died about six weeks tater, in February, 1908, agre 15 years Had he lived about the allotted span he doubtless would .have added to his stallion score Sea Prince (a son of Persimmon) recently won in Victoria over a mile and ahatf the same distance as theCaulfield Cup in which he is engaged with 6st 131 b. Sea Prince competed successfully in England as a two, three, and f our-year-old.l