race although he had two walk-over wins in either late 1883 or 1884. Assessment and earnings St Blaise earned £2,106 as a two-year-old, and £5,547 at three, placing him fifth on the 1883 list behind Ossian, Galliard, Tristan and Superba. He was considered by some to have been a lucky winner of the Derby: Border Minstrel, who was not entered for the Epsom race, was considered by many to have been the best colt of the year. Stud career At the end of his racing career, St. Blaise was sold to August Belmont and exported to the United States. When Belmont died in 1890, St. Blaise was sold at auction where he was bought for $100,000 by Charles Reed of Tennessee. He was later sold to James Ben Ali Haggin and then to August Belmont Jr. The best of St. Blaise’s progeny included Potomac, who was the outstanding American two-year-old of 1890 when he won the Belmont Futurity Stakes and Margrave the winner of the 1896 Preakness Stakes. St. Blaise lived to the advanced age (for a Thoroughbred) of twenty-nine when he was killed in a fire at the Nursery Stud at Lexington, Kentucky on 14 October 1909. Pedigree References 1880 racehorse births 1909 racehorse deaths Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom Epsom Derby winners Thoroughbred family 22-b