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HEROD MATCHEM ECLIPSE BREEDING IIY EXILE EXILEThe The fiict that eight out of the last nine winners of the Kentucky Derby are bred on the Herod MMoheniEclipse plan of mating is the cause of my examination of the breeding of all the other start ¬ ers in itho Kentucky Derby during this period Tiie finding is that of the ninetynine starters only twentySX of them are bred on the plan of uniting in the t lines of the pedigrees the strains of Herod Mftelicm and Eclipse and from such unions have com the winners Worth Donerail Uegret ieorge SmVth Omar Khayyam Sir llarton and Iaul Jones Therefore in the nine years the odds against those lirisl II M E were 3il and 7tl against those lire Kclipse to Kclipse Just to see if the II M f5 plan of mating holds good abroad a scrutiny was made of the breeding of the starters fur the Epsom Derby for the years 1J11 1 12 and 1SU7 In mil the Kclipsetollerod bred colt Sunstar was first beating a baud of twentysix of these oniy two Chili II and Sydmonton are bred to II M K time In 112 the gray KclipsetoIIerod filly Tagalie won finishing ahead of a band of nineteen and but two of these Aleppo and White Star brother to Sunstar are bred on the plan of uniting two of the great lines Aleppo is by Ieppo XI Chero Kaine by Klorizel II 1C and after Avird won the Chester and Ascot Gold Cups CupsIn In 117 when Gay Crusader proved successful he was the only one in the field bred on the II M K plan of mating and is by Itayardo E Gay Laura by Iteppo M MFrom From the above it would appear that the II M E plan of mating has in the production of winners of the best sort ratiier more than a shade the best of it
