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NEW FRENCH STUD BOOK REGULATIONS Paris Prance. Pebruary 28. With a view ;.. sti mining th- tide ,,f Americaa stock — nt to Ilam for breeding iuirpo-,-. the Prvnch Minister of Agrl-culture at tic request of the Stud Book Cornells sion ba.- decided that in future no stallimis .-broodararea i«. m-.i ibci in the Preach stud boow Unless at b-a-t eight -iiecc--ive gcinralinns of its aiioo-ior- wen- bunt in Kuroae. •Ii is urged." says tin- Perla Sport, "that the •taadard ot the Preucb thoroughbred is threatened by the infiltration •■! A ricaa blood; that the pedigrees of many American race horse- are. if not ■beuloteli unreliable, .n least open to suspicion. The Sport al-o raises the raise ciaim that the American horse lack- staying power ami resistance. It i- suggested thai it tie- measures taken br the Minister of Agriculture are insufficient to protect tin- Preach thoroughbred, the -m.| i„„,k i„. revised and those horses whose pedigree i- open lo suspicion be stricken cut.
