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FAMILY FIGURES IN RACING English Statistical Analysis of Bruce Lowe Groups First Five Aged Numbers Nat ¬ urally Far in Advance Nos 19 and 22 Strong Tho tables given herewith have been compiled puixly out of curiosity The compiler is no advo ¬ cate either for or against the lirucc Lowe System but a lirm believer in the old saying Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good goodThe The earlier records of the British thoroughbred ivtre not preserved as carefully as we could have wished but try as one may one cannot make any one family older than the others The original mares as we call them of the different families were not dropped from above at certain periods as some people would have us believ it has been remarked that Family No 10 is a hundred years younger than Families 1 II 3 and Now the ancestress of No 16 Family known as sister to Stripling by Huttons Snot was ac ¬ cording to all known records foaled alnnit ten years earlier than Julia by lilunk to whom Family Xo 1 owes the greater part of its success The number of winning horses for Xo 1 Family in 190 stands at 140 but were we to exclude Julias descendants this number would be reduced to fix fixW W are constantly told that the success of Xo 1 Family is due to the fact that it is stronger nu ¬ merically than the other families in the General Stud Hook Stronger it most certainly is but no X Xife ife can Hay that it has not carved its own way to success It has been open to the other families to Miccoed and we cannot tell but that in another forty or fifty years the families now at tlio bottom may bo at the top and vice versa Injudicious muting may at any time cause the leading families to decline and although 1arallin and Sunshine are useful enough commodities in their vuy Xo 1 Family has not the monopoly of this sort of thing as evidenced by Miss Agnes iu Xo 10 Family Maid of Masham in Xo 9 Alice Hawthorn in Xo 4 Lady Moore Carew in Xo 13 Queen Mary in Xo 10 and we cannot leave out Diversion and Seclusion ili Xoii Success brings success successIll Ill the table below are the winnings by sires of twentysix families of the lirucu Lowe System iluring the past year of racing Family Xo Amt AVon 1 5151745 351983 35198337H 37H 0 Family X Amt Won 19 119352 20 51500 82058 127440 1795 1397 78378 783781G50 1G50 1975 1925 5745 Total 20 Here is a table showing the winnings of thirty five family groups in 1920 Totals 15 1042 30SC115 30SC115Arthur Arthur Godfrey in Ilritish Bloodstock Keview
