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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF In the Knglish racing season of 1918 grandsons of St Simon sired winners of 15795 sons of Desmond accounting for 03700 Sons of St Frus ijuin crame next with 24211 Then came the sons of Childwick with a total of S1S932 Persimmon 10010 and William the Third 13905 13905The The horse Donnybrook which started at Pimlico last Thursday in race 42191 is not the old Donny ¬ brook by Rotterdam Rlumina which is probably dead The Donnybrook now racing at Pimlico is an imported Irish chestnut gelding 9 years old by Llangibby Nuala which raced and won in Ireland Kilbeggan last year yearThere There is a lamentable shortage of really first class jockeys nowadays and by jockeys wo dont mean pillar to post monkey crouchers but horse ¬ men as the term is understood in its most literal sense Where the Archers and Fordhams and MaheVs and Sloans of the immediate future are com ¬ ing from it is difficult to say London Winning Post PostShepherdess Shepherdess recently the winner of the Montem Plate at Windsor Eng is the first of the produce of the handsome horse Gentle Shepherd to run She was bred by R J Farquharson who owns her sire and her dam is Kstrella by Spearmint Chore Reine by Florizel II and cost 10400 as a year ¬ ling Gentle Shepherd is by the unbeaten Colin Yesterling the dam of OuadiHalfa and it is easy to predict for him a successful career at the stud
