Identifier: kingedwardviiass00wats (find matches)
Title: King Edward VII. as a sportsman
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910 Horses Sports -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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o was riding, dis-mounted, he said he was convinced there must besomething amiss ; and the colt was blowing andsweating as if he had finished a very severe gallop,whereas he had scarcely been out of a canter. WhenMarsh got him home, the horse put his head in themanger and almost groaned with pain. Suspicionarose that he was suffering from his teeth—in fact,an abscess had formed under one of them. Thetrouble was soon rectified by the trainers brother,an efficient horse dentist ; but it was consideredadvisable not to run for the first of the classicraces, the Two Thousand Guineas, which was veryeasily carried off by St. Frusquin. The First SpringMeeting, however, was not to pass off unproduc-tively. Thafs came out for the One ThousandGuineas, and, ridden by Watts, passed the post toall appearances so nearly in a line with the late Mr.Douglas Bairds Santa Maura that it was impos-sible to say what had happened until the judge, theonly man able to speak with certainty, had pronounced 154
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Racing that the Princes filly led past him by the least dis-tinguishable distance, a short head. That Persimmon would recover his form Marshdid not doubt. Before the colt had ever been sentto him the trainer, who was accustomed to visitSandringham and see how the foals were progressing,had allowed himself to grow hopeful that a verygood, if not actually a great, horse had been producedthere, and of course his two-year-old running, onlyconfirming the trials as it did, had left no question.Still there was always a certain cause for apprehension.It is an established fact that Perdita II. was the mainfactor in the successes of the stud, but she herself hadbeen hopelessly jady when in training. Towards theend of her career she simply declined to go on to theLimekilns to do her work, and there was an ever-present possibility that this strain in her nature woulddevelop in her progeny. In the early summer Persimmon went so well onemorning that Marsh wrote a delighted letter to LordMarcus Bere

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