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LYNDENS PECULIAR BREEDING. Lexington. Ky.. July II. — Eynden, the three-year old son of Disguise and Emma .. hy Darebin. which tail ltd tile colors of James K. Keene to victory Otet thirty seven competitors in the All-Aged Maiden Plate at Newhury. England, June 21. is a horse with a history. Lyudeii was bred hy Ma.j. Koxhall A. Daiagerheld, of Castletoa stud, and he is the last of the produce of his dam. which had previously given to the turf the great Commando and the consistent Telescope. "In foaling telescope iii 1889. Emma C. was badly lacerated." said Major Daingcrficld. "The veteriica-Haaa who examined her told me that it was iin possible that she would ever produce again. Indcr ordinary cireaaaataaeea I tniglit have accepted this statement, had this was the mother of Commando aaal 1 was particularly anxious that she should give Ms another foal. Consequently I was prcsevering. Each year I hred her to a Castleton horse, and in addition resorted to the careful use of every known device and means to secure artificial impregnation. The repeated failures heightened my determination and made me think deeply. When hreediug time came In the spring of 1908 1 made up my mimi to discard artificial devices and try for fecundation hy gravitation. Accordingly I arranged it hreediug place on tdoping ground and there mated Emma . with Disguise, leaving the mate to stand in an unchanged position, front feet several laches lower than her bind feet, for some time. The following spring she dropped a tine hrown colt and 1 was highly gratified, for 1 had accomplished, hy conforming to natural law. that which I had been told was impossihle and we had a half brother to Commando. "But my feeling of elation was shortly changed to anxiety. Emma . died. I was afraid to chance changing the f,,;| to cows milk and no mare to suckle the little fellow was available. I decided to give him soft food, bran and the like, mixed with •rater, increasing the quantity as he learned to eat. So we raised Eynden by hand anil without milk. He was a pet with all on the farm until he went away as a Marling in the fall of 1908." Maior Haingertield told this story of Eynden with bis characteristic modest reserve, never suggesting in any of hi words that he had accomplished something new in breeding or indicating that he felt he was Imparting Information that would he of great benefit to breeders of animals the world over.
