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ENGLANDS CROP OF THOROUGHBREDS Thorn arc nearly two hundred pages of intcrcstin facts within the familiar brown covers of thu Sup ¬ plement to Vol XXI of the Stud Book which lias just been issued by Messrs Weathcrby The infor ¬ mation is arranged on the usual lines and there is only one defect that calls for notice Until within the last two or three years the particulars relating to broodmares in the section in which they are ar ¬ ranged in alphabetical order always covered the two preceding years except in the case of the issue for the year following that in which the Stud Book itself was published The present Supplement like Its immediate predecessors deals only with the re ¬ turns for one year This is a disadvantageous ar ¬ rangement Supposing one wants to see what pro ¬ duce a mare had in 1010 as well as 1911 it is neces ¬ sary to consult also lust years Supplement And when that Is done the chances are the produce can ¬ not be instantly identified by reason of the fact that it is now known by a name The repetition and amplification of the returns for the previous year would of course mean the addition of n hun ¬ dred or so pages but the benefit would be so appre ¬ ciable that I feol sure subscribers would not mind paying a little more for the book bookThe The new supplement contains particulars of 5309 mares This total is made up as follows followsDams Dams of colts 1527 1527Dams Dams of fillies 1477 1477Barren Barren mares 12 K KMares Mares that slipped foals llli llliNot Not covered in 1910 213 213Put Put to halfbred sires 02 02Died Died since 1910 2M 2MSent Sent abroad 224 224No No return or put out of stud 251 251Total Total 53C9 53C9In In 1910 the number of marcs accounted for was 5225 and in 1K 9 the total was 5095 The pro ¬ portion of colts born last season was slightly greater than in cither of the two preceding years for in 1910 there were 1305 colts and 1490 fillies while in 1909 the respective totals were 1459 and 1432 There were 1189 barren mares in 1909 and 12 2 in 1910 The percentage of barren mares in 1911 was therefore slightly less than in the previous year More mares died last year than in either 1909 or 1910 1910Turning Turning to the returns of foals grouped under their sires I find that there are thirty stallions credited with twenty or more living foals They are as follows followsSire Sire Foals Sire Foals Sir Edgar 28 St Frusquin 23 Marcovil 27 27Gen Ulpian li liWilliam Gen Symons dead 25 William Uufus 2 2Bridge Marco 20 Bridge of Cam CamSundridge Canny Ar Sundridge France 20 gentine 2 Uncle Mac 2G Camp Fire II IIEager Eager dead 25 Desmond Pictou 25 Santoi Polymclus 25 Chaucer His Majesty 24 John oGauht St Amant 24 Llttletou Collar 23 Spearmint Dark Ronald 23 Trcdennis Ixrd Bobs Chile 23 Wavelets Pride PrideMissel Missel Thrush Argen Lally London Sporting Life
