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THE SINGULARITY OP RACING Lord George Bentinck once said sarcas ¬ tically that the way to breed a Derby winner was to mate a winner of the Derby with a winner of the Oaks says Baileys Magazine A superficial view would make this appear at any rate a probable way of breeding a Derby winner but breeding as all who have studied it carefully are aware is an in ¬ tricate business which does not readily lend itself to propositions of mathematical ac ¬ curacy For instance Lord George Ben tincks formula would one would think have occasionally cropped up since the Derby was established in 17SO and the Oaks in 1779 yet in the 142 Derbys which have been run in ¬ cluding the substituted races during the Worlds War there is not one instance of a winner of the great race being by a winner of the Derby dam a winner of the Oaks and out of the 112 winners only sixteen have sired a winner of the Blue Riband of the English turf
