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BRUCE LOWE "RED" CARBINE How the Australian Champion Was Discarded on the "Figure" Theory. T. nk BeyaeMs, the Australian breeder and rae-iag man. who died recently, was ;i character. He own-d sereral goad -ires, anions; th»-m The Barb, DrnaiBter, Splendor. Sir Tristram and Kaightlight. Reynolds was the breeder of htdadsas, the dam "if Wallace, and of 1iailtv. the dam of TTeMon. We are told, indeed, that "almost every SBCCessfal race barse whose dam is in Australian bn d mare runs back to a sure bred by Praak Iteynoids." According to an Australian write:. "Mtlrey," iti-yiicdds was the discoTerer sf the "Figure system. with which the name of Bruce Lowe i- sase-Pisted. The iwo men whv great tiiends. In the firsi instance they used red and blue lines as a guide, but Reynolds eventually ceaeeived the idea of numbering the families, and made LSWS a present of it. A letter written by the late Capt. T. B. Merry, a Californian. which appeared in the New York Spirit of the Times in 1S99. lias been brought to liuht tbroagh the death of BeyaeMs. Captain Merry !■•• ame ai-iuainted with Bruce Lowe while on a visit to Australia, and in hi- letter refers to a dinner given at a hotel in Sydney by William Gannon to Reynolds, who had hied Mdos, bearer of Cannons colors when -winning the Australian Jockey Club Derbj . "In the course of the evening." wrote Captain Merry, "Cannon, who thought the world of Liwe. asked Lasre if he had seen Carbine, adding that the coll was far sale at si..ono. " Let him alone, replied Lowe, he comes under the red. " But Smith here and Captain Merry have looked at him and both like him except for his hocks. " BM you want to breed Stayers and you cant sfford to astrshase a horse thai is marly all red. ■ aid Low. . " What do you mean by red: I asked. " "Well, 1 BteSS a horse whose tabulated pedigree shows more sprinters than distance horses. an sarered Lowe. 1 mark Mayer* hi Mae/" Captain Merry weal on lo Rtate that, acting sa Bruce Lowes advice, Ganaos would sot buy Carbine. So the horse a»eni t.. Melbourne, where DanaM Wallace, blissfully ignorsnl of Mr. Lsajea red and blue theories, paid S15.S0S for him. la three rears Carbine won thirty eel en races, woith 47,380. Counting what he hart as Betas and nraat was sma oa Carbine Gssnos was. .i|it.iin Merry calculated, ..ut of pocket not less than ISM.0M bj tsklng Brace l...w.-s advice, r..r Carhiae heal Meloa si ttaa . Melos beat Carbine twi.e. ♦
