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LINEAGE OF THIS YEARS WINNERS BY EXILE. x , Inthe purchase of a yearling or the breeding of, a. mare the object, I suppose, is a winner. Otje Hundred and thirty-eight horses, according to taf count, have won stake races this season, and ofUlls 6nehundred and thirty-eight all but twelve are, members of a Bruce Lowe family. Six of the twWVe, Including Exterminator, Leonardo II., Touch jkttj Not, Damask and General Hnig, are members of-the family of Mnrin West, and two, Busy Signal and Slippery .Elm, trace to the same source as does Spendthrift. The Jesson to be learned from this is that the day of the mare of obscure origin is over and that buyers of yearlings are simply wasting money when paying it for youngsters which are members of bad famines. Facts are facts, and here are the facts of the caue.- Mares of obscure origin are practically -worthless In tlie production of stake winners, and it Its hazardous in the extreme to purchase, their offspring with the expectation of developing winners.
