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EXCESSIVE USE MADE OF SUNSTAR Although Shire and other traveling stallions meet an immense number of mares in one season it has always been accepted as a sort of unwrit ¬ ten law that the limit fcr a thoroughbred sire with thoroughbred mares shall be forty or at the outside forty five in the year Indeed owing to this view when The White Knight which now sires plenty of winners was proving himself an excellent race horse and splendid stayer it was cited as something against liiir that his maternal grandsire the viletempered Buckshot had actually served 1UO marcs the year le begot Pella Re ¬ turns from tin revently published Supplement to the Stm Book show that the notable stallion Sunstar winner of the Two Thousand Guineas Newmarket Stakes and Epsom Derby in 1111 served eightyone mares in 1U18 As the horses fee is 300 guineas tltis must have been good business for Mr J It Joel and the result of these many unions was an easy record as regards thor ¬ oughbreds of fiftyfive foals in 1019 made up as follows Twins dam Rock Ruby a bay colt and bay filly thirty other colts and nineteen fil ¬ lies to live besides two colts smd two fillies which either died or were born divid StntTstics show that in all animal life the pacut transmitting the greatest vitality to its offspring produces the op ¬ posite sex and in this instance there were thlrty tlire colts begotten to twenytwo fillies It will bs curious to see when these youngsters com ¬ mence racing in 1021 what amount of vitality a ccuragc they ylll display Horse ai d HoHwl
