. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 166 ®%* $v8*b&e mxb §p&vt#ttttiftu [S£l»TEMBfift lOi I89g. THE ENGLISH STALLION STAMFORD. Hidalgo Sends a Friendly Reply to f Old ; Los Angeles, Sept. 2, 1893. To the Editor of the Breeder and Sportsman—I enjoyed the perusal of a letter from "Old Rusticus" in jour last issue for there are many ideas set forth by him that are in full harmony with my own. I certainly was never able to see anything great in Mr. Bruce Lowe's "Breeding by Figures," much as I personally admired its author who was among the most loveable of me
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 166 ®%* $v8*b&e mxb §p&vt#ttttiftu [S£l»TEMBfift lOi I89g. THE ENGLISH STALLION STAMFORD. Hidalgo Sends a Friendly Reply to f Old ; Los Angeles, Sept. 2, 1893. To the Editor of the Breeder and Sportsman—I enjoyed the perusal of a letter from "Old Rusticus" in jour last issue for there are many ideas set forth by him that are in full harmony with my own. I certainly was never able to see anything great in Mr. Bruce Lowe's "Breeding by Figures," much as I personally admired its author who was among the most loveable of men. If there were any real merit in the system, somebody in Australia, where it origi- nated, would have something to show for it. The truth is, Frank Reynolds, of Tocal, on the Patterson river, was as much the inventor of the system as was Mr. Lowe; and Mr. K. brei better horses before he got hold of the figure fad than he has ever done since. He bred Goldsborough who was at least five pounds bettei than Sir Modred and one of the greatest broodmare sires the world has ever seen. I also agree that Mr. Lowe's slighting of Waxy, just be- cause nn other equally great sire came from the same tap- root mare, was unworthy of a writer of Mr. Lowe's generally conceded ability. The English Racing Calendar, which was the real basis of all Mr. Lowe's research, will show that the male line of Waxy has won 40 per cent, of all the Derbys, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Legers that have been run; and almost 37 per cent, of the winners of the 1000 Guineas and ' >.iks. Mr. Lowe took these very races as the basis of his computations, so that his ignoring of Waxy looks to be more ingenious than ingenuous. I agree with "Old Rusticue" that Waxy got the dam of Filho da Puta, who won the St. Legerof 1815, but I dirJer with him as to Stamford's being out of a Waxy mare. Stam- ford, who was by Sir Peter the Derby winner of 1787, was out of Horatia by Eclipse, the paternal grandsire of W
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