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CAUSE AND EFFECT IN BREEDING Claim Few American NonBruce Lowe Families Carry On in the Male Lino Successfully PY EXILE EXILESalvator Salvator writing in the April 7 issue of Daily Itucing Form rather takes me to task most cour ¬ teously I am free to admit for my scorn of native families This perhaps is rather too sweeping for I have for long been an admirer ami an upholder of the Maria AVest family as being one of the best winner producing families there is To a certain extent 1 also am partial to the Aerolite family and to the Julia by Glencoe ami Picayune family familyYou You may well ask what is the cause of my pref ¬ erence for the above families and my answer be ¬ cause both the Maria AVest and Aerolite families have produced sires which carry on It is by way of the Maria West horse Pen Prush that the line of Ponnie Scotland is perpetuated and Aerolite is the dam of Spendthrift the connecting Matchem link between Australian and Fair Play I also favor the Julia by Glencoe family in that it is the family of Wanda and the Epsom Derby winner Durbar II Also as a running family the Picayune has much to recommend it anil of this line the Dewhttrst Plate winner anil one of the winter favorites for the Epsom Derby Prince Galahad a member Poth of these families however are not as yet respon ¬ sible for the production of any sire of note anil for this reason I am not at all sure it would be to the best interests of bloodstock breeding should Prince Galahad prove successful at Epsom EpsomImmediate Immediate race course success is not and never was the sole object of horse breeding Of course racing is a case of survival of the fittest but these fittest should in all conscience be capable of trans ¬ mitting at least in part their own racing ability to their progeny which Mr John E Madden has sapiently told us they have been unable to do doOn On pages 3 i33M of the American liacing Manual there appears a list of the leading sires of the United States from 1S70 to date and only one of these leading sires lien Itrush but what is a mem ¬ ber of a number family Of the seventytwo lead ¬ ing brood mare sires of 1910 whose daughters bred the winners of SI 1000 or over only two of them our champion Hen 1riish and Free Knight hut what trace in the direct female line to a figure tap root Free Knight is of course a member of the Chloe Anderson by Rudolph family from which also that good horse Xorfolk comes but Norfolk good and great as ho was as a race horse and sire of win ¬ ners has failed to set up a house of his own ownCause Cause and effect again twas ever thus and tlie cause as I see it is witli the exception of the Maria AVest Hen Hrush and the Aerolite Spend ¬ thrift families that all of the other American tap ¬ root families are distinctly inferior in the produc ¬ tion of progenitors to the families which trace to a figure tap root True enough blood stock breed ¬ ers could well get along without some of those families which do sport a figure but in the main success and improvement can only be had by sticking to members of families which in the female line trace to a Hruce Lowe figure tap root
