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FOR PRESERVATION OF HANOVER LINE His Influence Potent in This Country England and Australia in Famous Recent Winners IIY KXILK KXILKIt It ihny be of interest to all horsemen especially bleeders to know that six out of the last nine winners of the Kentucky Derby are bred Kelipse In Herod and that one of the other three George Smith is bred Kelipse to Matchcm and that Omar Khayyam is bred Matchem to Kelipse Pe pleased to understand the blending of the blood of llerod Matehem and Kelipse is no theory of my own I am merely quoting from turf history and find that it t by an intermingling of these three strains that the best and most influential horses bar two Hampton and Isonomy arc bred bredKach Kach and every one of the dams of the six Eclipse lo Ilcrod Kentucky Derby winners are of Glencoe descent the dams of Worth Donerail and Sir Par tiiu are by Hanover himself Uegret and Paul Jones re daughter and son of daughters of Hamburg son of Hanover Exterminators tlam Fair Empress i by Jim Gore son of Hindoo sire of Hanover Can you then in the face of all this blame ine il niy attempt at Hanover salvation and in my endeavor to have some breeder step forward in an effort to save this great and good brood mare line from its threatened extinction extinctionNot Not only here but also abroad is the brood mare blood of Hanover iu the ascendant The Derby winner Orby and his half sister the One Thousand Guineas winner Khodora have for a dam Hanovers daughter Uhoda It Orby himself is the sire of last years Derby winner Grand Parade and the grandrtam of the 1911 Derby winner Durbar II is Urania also by Hanover Colline dam of the Australian cup winner Lempriere is by Hanover and many a good win is being scored in France by the progeny of Oversight which is by Ilulmu son of Hanover So it goes the world over overFacts Facts are facts in horse breeding as In every ¬ thing else and I am now engaged In putting facts Itofore you Ilrood mares of the Glencoe strain have bred six Kentucky Derby winners out of nine Is it not therefore the province of the breeders of blood stock in this country to make some sort of effort to save the Hanover line Dont prate to me of the superiority of the American thoroughbred horse when yon stand willing to see this the best brood mare strain you ever had or will Lave become extinct
