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STALLIONS AGES SHOW HIQH AVERAGE In Miss F M Priors English Register of Thoroughbred Stallions there appears the obituary of stallions since the publication of the previous volume four years ago The deaths of ninetytwo stallions during that period are recorded of which Crackeiithorpe tlie last of the sons of Hermit lied last year at the ripe ago of thirty years Father and son between Ilium coverid just a half century each having long exceeded the average Sifc of a thoroughbred stallion Some eight or nine years ago I got out a table which showed the average life of an entire thoroughbred to be a fraction over sixteen years this being based on the jbitnariesi published in the Stud Hook froni the commencement Four years ago Miss Priors obit ¬ uary showed the average to be 1713 years but the present total of ninetytwo stallions lived in the aggregate 1493 years which works out an average if 10 years Nevertheless as many as thirty five sires were twenty years old or more when they assed ayay and Golden Crown twentynine anil Wlot twentyeight both ran Crankenthorpe close in the matter of longevity Testimony to the savagery of the Germans Uboat piracy is afforded by the statement that Maiden Erlegh and Sunflower II were torpedoed on the voyattn to the United States in September 1917 while Torchbearer met with a similar fate on his voyage to Jamaica Vigilant in London Sportsman
