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SOME BREEDING TECHNICALITIES I question whether our Irish friends have as yet realized that their exclusive ruling bars their own foals from racing in Ireland except for 300 sov ¬ ereigns stakes if they happen to have been born in England when the dam was visiting an English stallion Tims Iron Hand was almost certainly foaled in England for bis yearling brother is a living proof that the mare was sent to Prince Palatine a second time The late J C Murphy used to let his mares foal in Ireland before sending them over to England with the foals five or six days old and he never lost a foal in this way but most breeders would think it too risky There is no jloubt that as the breeder of an animal is the person who owned the dam at the time when she produced it so also the country in which the animal was bred is the one in which it was born The French practice is perfectly clear on this point There is a wholly mistaken idea that bred and reared are synonymous terms Thus I was asked some little time ao if Kau de Javel was bred in Ireland as there was some thought of running her there I replied that she was reared in Ireland at the Straffan Station Stud by the kind ¬ ness of Mr Kennedy but that she was bred at Cob ham i c foaled there and under the Irish ruling would not M eligible to run in that country unless for 300 sovereigns stakes It must be remembered too that the converse of the above situation will hold good for many English breeders are in the habit of sending marcs to stallions in Ireland such as Roi Herode The Tetrarch etc and these mares are almost invariable sent over before foaling The foals which they produce in Ireland when on these visits are bred in Ireland and entitled to full privileges of racing there I should strongly advise owners of yearlings to bear this point in mind for there must be quite a good number of the colts and fillies to l e sold at Newmarket that were really bred in Ireland though owned and reared in this country W Allison in London Sportsman
