. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. A bh, 16, 1898] CQ3j£ ^vestxev atte> gp&xt&mt&i* 26? to 43 never won any of the three great classic events, but were, nevertheless, original, or (tap-root" mares, and given numbers by our dead friend. The families thus being numbered in order of merit from a racing point of view, writes a well-known New York breeding student, and that, too, on the only safe princi- ple, i. e, judgment by results, two discoveries were presently made: Families lt 2, 3, 4 and 5 represent the highest de- gree of vital force, otherwise racing capacity, but that t
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. A bh, 16, 1898] CQ3j£ ^vestxev atte> gp&xt&mt&i* 26? to 43 never won any of the three great classic events, but were, nevertheless, original, or (tap-root" mares, and given numbers by our dead friend. The families thus being numbered in order of merit from a racing point of view, writes a well-known New York breeding student, and that, too, on the only safe princi- ple, i. e, judgment by results, two discoveries were presently made: Families lt 2, 3, 4 and 5 represent the highest de- gree of vital force, otherwise racing capacity, but that these •'running families," except in the case ofNo. 3, are deficient in the elements that constitute successful sires; on the other hand, families 3,8, 11, 12 and 14 are distinguished for the potency of what Mr. Lowe called their "sire blood," and, as he declared, no horse has ever been a marked success as a sire unless descended directly from one of these families or inbred strongly to them; where there has beta any exception to this rule, as in Blacklock's case, the horse has only suc- ceeded by having the ''sire'" element strong in his mates. It is further proved to demonstration that no great horse of modern days can be named without some of the "running' and "sire" lines in the three first removes of his pedigree. And now if we set out the original mares in order according to their figures, with a few of her principal descendants set against each to serve as a guide, the reader will have a ready means "f reference by which to understand what every figure in a pedigree means. The figures of the ranning families are, throughout, printed in italics, without brackets, the sire lines (including No. 3, which is both "sire" and "runniog") in thick type, and the other lines in ordinary type, for the purposes of easy distinction. Here, then, is (he allotment of figures : NO. TAP HOOT MARES. i—Tregonwell's Natural Barb
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