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AMERICAN BREEDING LOSS Destruction of Prince Palatine by Fire Deplored One of Englands Greatest Racers. American breeding suffered a severe loss when Prince Palatine, the celebrated imported stallion, recently met death in a fire at Xalapa Farm, near Lexington, Ky. Prince Palatine was one of the truly great money winners on the English turf and was imported by Edward F. Simms, master of Xalapa Farm. Prince Palatine was a bay horse, foaled in 1908, by Persimmon Lady Lightfoot, by Isinglass, second dam Glare, by Ayrshire, she by Footlight, a half-sister to Iluminata, dam of Ladas, Chelandry, Gas and Samphire, by Cremorne. Chelandry was the dam of Neil Gow ; Gas produced Cicero and Samphire was the dam of Wrack. Prince Palatine was bred in England by W. Hall Walker, now Lord Wavertree, who sold him as a yearling to Thomas Pilkington, for whom in four years of racing he won 84,555, among his victories being the St Leger, the Doncaster Cup, the Jockey Club Stakes and the Ascot Gold Cup twice. Pil- kington sold him as a five-year-old to J. B. Joel for 00,000. There were eight in his first crop of foals in 1915. His second crop numbered ten and his third crop thirty-one. The next year he was not so successful, showing signs of "shyness" in breeding, and he was sold to Due De Cazes and went to Oilly Stud, Normandy, France, where, in 1920, he was purchased by E. F. Simms and brought to Kentucky to stand at Xalapa Farm, where he leaves a son, Prince Pal, which gives promise of making a good sire.
