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OUR TWOYEAROLD SENSATION CAREFUL BRED ON LINES MOST PRODUCTIVE OF SUCCESS SUCCESSIN IN RACING IN TEE PAST AND AN EXAMPLE OF OFTHE THE BLENDING THEORY WELL WORKED OUT Hy reason of her having won all of her races four of tlirm stake races already this spring and the month of May not gone I think it only proper and right that Careful should have her picture in the gallery hence I now present a tanblatioii of her breeding Carefnls Avins include the Aberdeen Pimlieo Nursery Spring Juvenile and Colorado Stakes and judging from the summaries she has never yet been made to really extend herself herselfAs As will IK noticed from a glance of Can fuls pedigree she is by Wrack out of Star Shoots daugh ¬ ter Mindful It is also on this plan of mating that Mazes winner last year of the Lexington Prcedcrs Knturity Saratoga Jrab Iag Handicap and of the Havre de Crace Classic Handicap this year Ilne Wrack winner of six races as a twoyearold and this year first for the Great National Handicap in Havana and Hulls Hyp two races jn lll are bred All of them are by Wrack and sons or daughters of Star Shoot It would seem therefoie that the blood of Wrack has some special allinity for that of Star Shoot Everyone connected with bloodstock breeding well knows the oh time maxim Keturn the best blood in the dam to the Iwt blood in the dam of ihe sire In the Wracl Star Shoot mating this works out splendidly for Samphire dnm of Wrack is a daughter of Isinglass and Star Shoot a son Inbreeding in the top lines a pedigree is only courting disaster but uniting the best strain of blood in the dam with that of the same strain in the dam of the sire has in the i ast frnqnpntly resulted in the product ion of something of extra Kiting merit There is nothing new under the sun and the same rule that has held good for all these years is still working today This is the sort of thing I suppose Mr John Madden had reference to in his published interview cm the failure of some of the best of the American race horses to sire anything approaching their own racing exfellence and the nonsuccess of American breeders in their mnt iiigs What has happened once is more than apt to happen again and breeders to attain success must pay more attention to the history of the turf and tiie manner in which the great winners of the past are bred bredPersonally Personally I have always hid unbounded confidence in Wracks ability as sire A sound hardy medium sized hiirse hi his isiiinjf days a jmk of a Jr i wUuh irtL 1 ilf lmb OH ThFllat aniilMvor obstaeWT Wrack is descended in the male line from Hampton and is a member of the Kllen Home branch of the No 1 family from which have come any number of the best of the winners such as Lord Lyon Achievement Hend Or Ladas Cicero Flair Prince Palatine etc Wrack however is rather tophcavy Kelipse and as might be expected scores best off mares in whose pedigrees are to be found closeup crosses of Herod and Mitelirin blood In Carefnls case the Herod strain is brought in by way of her granddam Merdin a daughter of Hindoo and the Matchem via Stella and Melrose Care ¬ ful is a member of the Clalopade family from which come so many of the best of the winners and permit me to say it is only by breeding from families which have been the most productive of winners in the jmst to sires which have attained to race course sue cess themselves and are members of families from which great and good siris have come ly following a few simple rules such as the above return tlie l lest est blood in the dam etc and by a blending of the blood of Herod Matchem anil Kclipse that continued success in bluodsiick bleeding is to be had Hamplon 10 JJr1 Jobirt le leDiablo I Atalanta j Calopii Diablo 1 1iKiy Kcronia iKiy lMI j Melton s J Master Kildare J Violet Melrose Koso of Lancaster J I n er Konge Uose Isnnnmv 1 J Sterling I 5nghiss J Isohl Itella Snmphire 1 bay ISitO 1 Dead Lock j Wlol Malpractice bay IKli j HJold Finch 4 j Ormonde j Thistle Illiiinimita J liosieruciaii Paraffin i j Sterling J r I iiiny 1l Isohl Hella j t WenlOk Shir Shoot l T 11 ml Llrk Malpractice i chcritnnt ISJS Hermit 5 J Newminstcr 1 Seclusion I Stella JHrother to Stafford Dghtr of Toxophiliti Virgil 0 jVandil 1 Hymenia I Florem J I xinglon fathcrwitch t Melbourne 37 I MCnight of St fieorgc fieorgcJ l Mercedes J Melr se I nly Ilardaway J Commolore Iteiinioi
