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XALAPA FARMS FINE SIRES St. Simon Blood Abounds in Offerings at Dispersal Sale. Something1 About Negofol, Prince Pal and Lucky Hour That Arc to Go Under Hammer. . NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 2. It is conceded by breeding experts the world over that the finest stallions of the male line of St. Simon, one of the five dominating strains of European, South American and Australian racing, are in the United States. It is also agreed that three of the finest types of the American group, tracing directly to the once mighty son. of Galopin, are among the horses the Xalapa Stud will dispose of the evenings of December 10 and 11 in New York City at its dispersal sale. Two of the tail male descendants of St. Simon in the coming vendue are Negofol and Prince Pal. Negofol is closer to St. Simon, in direct descent than any other horse on this side of the Atlantic. Prince Pal is a great grandson, through Prince Palatine and Persimmon. Persimmon was St. Simons greatest son. Prince Palatine, which E. F. Simms imported from France a few years back at a ccst of about a quarter of a million dollars, and recently lost in a fire at Xalapa Farm, was the most brilliant of Persimmons offspring, not excepting Sceptre. He was sold once for 00,000, and a second time for 5200,000, before Mr. Simms bought him. Tracerys great distance running rival in England in 1913, he earned a matter of S1,770 in eleven winning races. He won the Ascot Gold Cup twice, a St. Leger, a Jockey Club Stakes, a Doncaster Cup, a Coronation Cup, an Eclipse Stakes and a Gordon revival. He sired many winners, Rose Prince, He Goes, Iron Hand, Splendid Spur, Galahad, Donnacona and Afternoon among them. In Prince Pal, Prince Palatine got from Wilful Maid a mare of the line of Marian Hood, Polymelus, Sunbonnet, Maid Marian, La Fleche, Memoir, Quiver, Ambassador IV. and McGee, to go no farther, a splendid individual and a capable race horse that has become a fine breeder. The favor in which the first of the offspring of Prince Pal to be brought to the auction block were held by the discriminating buyers that assembled at Saratoga last August was indicated by the prices the most prepossessing of them brought. Nor have these costly Prince- Pal youngsters disappointed their buyers. All could run like the Wind when they were broken and tried for speed some three weeks back. Continued on twelfth page. XALAPA FARMS FINE SIRES Continued from first page. In Negofol the blood of the stoutest families that may properly be called French is mixed with the blood of St. Simon. It is unnecessary to expatiate here on his antecedents. Students of bloodlines know. Besides, the reputation of Negofol was made when - he. sired Hourless. Bred in France by August Belmont, Hour-j less came to the United States as a yearling and became the three-year-old champion of the racing of 1917, when he licked the formidable Omar Khayyam in the John R. McLean Memorial Cup race, a gallop of a mile and a quarter over the Laurel course. Himself a French Derby winner, Negofol sired another Derby winner in Tchad, which is now at stud service at the Combs farm, near Lexington. Other brilliant performers of French racing, these ten or a dozen years, that claim Negofol for sire are Flechois, Juveigneur, Fou du Itoi, Garde Noble, Le Prelude, Sorgo and Bou Jeloud. Besides Hourless, he contributed Lighter, a Tijuana Cup winner, to American racing. THE UIG COCHItAX SALE. The first of Negofols yearlings bred at Xalapa to come to the market appeared last year arid Mr. Siinms sold five of them privately to Gifford A. Cochran for 15,000. Dangerous, Battle Field, Pocantico and Manifold were among these and there arc no more promising coming three-year-olds in the country. Here, as in France, Negofol appears destined to beget a race of distance runners, horses .that will make their marks under silks and leave their impress on the American thoroughbred family. ! One of the smartest fillies of a season that developed many briliant races of the softer sex, fillies that held their own right along with the colts, was Nedana, a daughter of Negofol and Adana. Nedana was the best two-year-old of .either sex that bore the silks of the Rancocas Stable. : The third of the trio is Lucky Hour, a son of Ferole or Hourless, and Lucky Catch, she is a daughter. of Trap Bock and Lucky Lass. Lucky Hour was one of the best three--year-olds of 1922." He was taken sick at Havre de Grace in April after he won four races and in June was almost killed at Belmont Park when kicsed by a stable companion, Southern Cross. He came back at his best in the fall and raced with distinction. In every respect he was a high-class racejiorse.
