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INSTANCES OF CERTAINTY IN BREEDING. A good many people maintain Ibal breediug is purely and simply ■ matter of chance but I myself iietieve thai If breeding is a lottery, ii is so simply becaoKe wi bai • noi yet arrived al a dear understanding id Hie laws of heredity. Every bow and again we -I in i" gel a glimpse of the working ol soup definite law, but before we have time to grasp i it the clue i* lost, so ai all events i: seems to me. We can, for instance, note that in the past success. wonderful and iiersistent, tollon the mating ol Bay Miildliion with Velocipede mares. Whether the ■ sneeess was due t ■■ Inbreeding to Wbiskej S and Pot 8 us I do mil know ii may have been i"ii tin- feet remains thai as fat a we can gather i roui a stiMlj ul the records if lbs past tbei very little •kittery" in mating mares got io m ■ : * Ij related to Velo i b ith Raj Middleton. Ilieii look ai Sterling: out h mares inbred to Bird-catcher ho uot I -■•!!■ hi ■. . Ixrmlox, Energy aod other "useful" trors -. Then *-e bad Isonomv himself: through his sin . i rliug. he got the blood of Baj M niiilitoii. ami in:: ol mares : i~ ssessing a Btrain of Baj Middleton he pot Isinglass. Rnvenshury. S-n breeae. Common ami Prisoner. Was -m i-o-v here i u-■• Inbreeding •• Baj Middle! on V or won- we watch inj; the working •! some defiu I law oi principle ■ of In i lily • That I do nil pretend to know: Uui at vnii. hi niain- that, except in -•• far a* ii i. i». lit- so io .nr ignorance, breed ng i- not a lot !■ sill: in London Spoi I «uian
