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FOR BREEDING SUCCESS Some Well Defined Tracks but No Sure Road Yet Found Figure Color and Mendel Systems SystemsHave Have All Failed to Bring BringCertainty Certainty In the world of bloodstock breeding no infallible road to success seems to have yet been discovered although several claims have been put forward forwardThe The figure system was one of the chief of these and breeders have at least to thank the author for what has proved a useful index to families The color system was shorter lived It sought and failed to prove tliat color was allied with other factors in their transmission from generation to generation This of course violated all the tenets which Mendelians hold most sacred and the sys ¬ tem soon died a natural eath Had only some of these claims been substantiated the breeder would no longer be groping more or less blindly amid a network of disappointments and apparent unaccount abilities abilitiesHut Hut if there is no infallible road there does sometimes appear to be a more or less well defined track upon which the wouldbe breeder of winners may profitably set his feet That history repeats itself is surely true in bloodstock Jbreedlns and the study of the pedigrees the great perforiri ers and sires of the past reveals hints which are of great value in the present Occasionally it hap ¬ pens that two lines of blood apparently nick each seeming to be the complement of the other otherTake Take the case of Macaroni marcs which when allied to Bend Or produced some of the most famous horses we have known Ormonde Kendal Laveno Orvieto Bona Vista Mnrtngon great race horses and almost greater sires they bear striking testimony to the immense value of this cross But for these there would have been no Cyllene with his four Derby winners no Craga nour no Polymelus no The Tetrarch to mention but a few How different would the history of the turf have been beenNO NO MORE IXYIKG FOXES CAME CAMEAlas Alas that these alliances of particular lines of blood should not work out so consistently more fre ¬ quently From a Galopin mareOrme sired Flying Fox and it is said he was afterward inundated with Galopin mares Yet that cross failed to pro ¬ duce a single other good horse with the possible exception of Duke of Westminster a brilliant two jearold indeed but he failed to win as a three yearold and subsequently won but one race raceOf Of modern brood mares the daughters of Galli jiule liave done extraordinarily well at the stud and have bred winners to sires from all kinds and lines of blood as the following list of their win ¬ ners of 5000 and over shows The winners are taken down to the end of the 1915 racing season seasonAmericus Americus Girl by Americu AmericuArda Arda by St Frusquin FrusquinElectra Electra by Eager EagerGalvani Galvani by Laveno LavenoKnockfeerna Knockfeerna by Desmond DesmondQueens Queens Advocate by Diamond Jubilee JubileeSiberia Siberia by St Simon SimonWillonyx Willonyx by William the Third ThirdMark Mark the diversity of the sires there does not seem to be any preeminent nick for all are good goodNeverthelens Neverthelens many brood mares are impotent to produce winners unless mated with their so to speak affinity sires and it is up to breeders to probe more deeply into their needs needsJust Just at the present time it almost looks as though another guiding star is glimmering Bayardo son of Hay Ronald has proved himself during his regrettable short career at the stud worthy to be included among the great sires by such winners as Iopingaol Lord Basil Gainsborough and Gay Cru ¬ sader Magpie only a head behind the latter in the Two Thousand Guineas is by Dark Ronald another eon of Buy Ronald RonaldA A scrutiny of the pedigrees of all these winners reveals the presence of St Frusquin blood close up Popingaol lord Basil Gainsborough and Mag ¬ pie are every one of them out of St Frusquin mares Gay Crusader is from a mare by Beppo whose dam is a daughter of St Frusquin These facts point to a distinct possibility that the com ¬ bination of Bay Ronald and St Frusquin blood may have results as far reaching as did the blend of Bend Or and Macaroni R C Brooke in Bailys
