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"THE BEST STAYERS IN THE WORLD" Prominent Critic Declares a Fitting Tribute Is Not Paid to the Sons of Galopin. A recent issue of the well-known "quarterly. " "The Bloodstock Breeders Review," is well up to its usual high standard. One of the most interesting of the various contributions is that :i "The Best Stayers in the World." in which an old friend. Mr. Syduey II. Pardon of cricket reporting fame!, breaks out in a fresh place, lie strongly champions the cause of Galopin as the founder of the liest staying family. Apparently Mr. Pardon has been roused to the occasion by reading "day after day of the staying liower of the Isouomy. the Hampton, and. above all. the Musket blood." ""Seldom, indeed." he adds, "is fitting tribute paid to the stamina of the descend -ants of Gnlopiu." In order to make it clear that it is the Calopin to which we are chiefly indelted for our stayers. Mr. Pardon has massed together evidence on the point which he claims to l»- overwhelming, and he has certainly made out .. strong case. Imprimis he points out that member-: of the ialopin tribe have won nine Dcrbys, the oaks on eleven occasions and ten St. Lexers, all g-::iicd in the twenty-six seasons from 1880 to 1914 inclusive, with the exception of the Derby won by Galopin himself. Mr. Pardon also deals with other big weight-forage races and has much to say in praise of Persimmon and William tiie Third, and also of The White Knight. In connection with the last named he quotes his feat in carrying 138 pounds in the Cesarewitch, when he gave forty-five pounds to Demure and ran her to three-quarters of a length and this the author regards us fully equal to the much-belauded victory of Barcaldine in the Northumberland Plate under 130 pounds. He gives comparative tables of great horses sired by Stockwell and St. Simon. Iu this connection die asks, can Stockwell show ten grandchildren equally brilliant?. Much Ic| cim1s on the opinion of individu.-.ls as to the brilliancy of horses and it would not Is- difficult to stack up a list taken from Stockwells grandchildren which would take some lieating. In regard to tlie success of male line descendants of Stockwell iu three chief classics, they have certainly failed rather unaccountably in the Oaks. f«r I can only find four as against eleven successes of descendants of St. Simon. In the I erhy and St. I.eger, however, the Stock wells altogether outnumber the Calopins. having sixteen Derbys and sixteen St. lagers to their credit, agaiust respectively nine and ten on the part of the Galopins. In all. the Stockwells have won thirty-six races for the Derby. Oaks and St. Leger and tiie Galopins only thirty. Personally I agree with much that Mr. Pardon has written concerning the line of Galopin, and his article is eminently readable ami interesting. — "Vigilant" iu Loudon Sportsman.
