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PERSIMMON LEADS SIRES IN ENGLAND. The English flat racing season closed Saturday last with the meeting at Castle Irwell, and -toward the end there was an exceedingly close contest between the winning sires. According to the latest sporting exchanges Persimmon jumped into the lead rather suddenly, owing to the racing of Keystone II. For several months Ladas, Carbine and Gallinule were close together, and it was the opinion that one of the trio would finish at the top. Only the sum of about 00 separates Persimmon and Ladas, but the latest reports were that little as the money appeared Ladas conld hardly make it up. Persimmons total is 9,0S5. Lord Derby, who leads the winning owners list, has Increased his total, it being now 55,533. Most of this fine sum has been contributed by his grand filly Keystone II., which is at the top of the string; of winning horses with 4,150. Major Eustace Loder Is in second place with a total of ,745, and his percentage is higher than that of Lord Derby, for his figures were made by twenty horses In forty-three wins, while Major Loder had only seven horses and eleven wins. As Irish and French meetings are not tallied on the English list, Major Loder loses the 0,000 won by Spearmint in the Paris Grand Prix, which with about ,000 won in Ireland put his grand total close on 44,000. Colonel Hall Walker is in third place, with 1,675, the result of twenty-four races won by seven horses.
