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SUBJECT OF THE STUD BOOK ♦ ■ One of Great Britains Best Known Breeding Experts Gives Views. ♦ Says Matter a Complicated One, lint Advocates a Qualifying Kntry as a Good One. NEW YORK. N. Y.. April 2S. The exclusion of certain American thoroughbrcjil fam.lies from the English and French stud hooks has been the cause of much bitterness h?re and in certain circles abroad ever since the order came into being. The subject has been kept alive by the brilliant performances of animals tracing to sources deemed cloudy by foreign turf authorities, and it will continue as long as the regulation which came into force some fourteen or fifteen years ago exists. The inconsistency of accepting animals imported from the Inited States up to a cer-I tain point for registration and then arbitrarily declaring other animals of the same blood I ineligible at a later period, has not met with I the approval of many sportsmen who exult j periodically when ROM of th -se so-called half-breds show the cmality that can only come from an ancestry tested in the uuclufci of endeavor and found to be without alloy. One of Grant Britains b st known breed-| ing experts is William Chisman. who was the managt r of Colonel Hall-Walkers Tully Stud before that distinguished sportsman, now known as I,ord Wavertree. presented it to the British Oovernment Mr. Chisman I is still associated with the turf fortunes of I Lord Wavertree arid is also adviser to Aga Khan and other prominent racing men abroad. It was he who urged the purchase of the flying filly Mumta Mahal, which traces to the despised Lexington in the female line through American, the grandson of Norfolk, taken to Ireland by Richard ! Croker at the same time as lilioda B.. the j Hanover mare, whose son. Orby, by Orme, won the Kpsom Derby, and whose daughter Rhodora, by St. Frusquin, was a winner of the One Thousand Cuineas. Mr. Chisman in discussing turf affairs in general, and breeding in particular, with his friend, W. B. Miller of the Greenwich Stud, has the following terse and interesting comments to make on the subject of the stud book : "This Stud Book question Is a very complicated one. As a matter of fact there is not such a thing In the world as a thoroughbred. The best bred horse in the book is simply a development from inferior, unknown ancestors. It is pretty certain that Noah had no thoroughbred horses in the Ark! "I sometimes think that if our Jockey Club would allow a qualifying entry it would be a good thing. I mean by this that if an animal is good enough to win a classic race, or. for instance, a Kempton Jubilee. Cesare-witch, Cambridgeshire or Ascot. Goodwood and Doncaster Curs, that family should qualify for admssion to the Stud Book. "The Half-Bred Stud Book published by M ss Tryor was a very great step forward. There has been no record of half-breds before she published this book and there is no doubt that in a few years time it will have to be recognized as an authcrity. When the animals not admitted to the Stud Book have an official record of their own there will not be the bitter feeling about it. The breedings will be clearly traceable, which they have not been up till now. and that has been the chief argument against owning half-breds. When you came to sell there was trouble. "If my idea about the qualifying entry had been in force it would have qualified all the Wanda family Ghinutess family; this through Durbar Derby. "The success of Norman IIT. in the Two Thousand would have qualified all the family descended from Sultana, by Lexington. "The success of Iroquis Derby, would have admitted all the descendants of Maggie B. B. "The success of Foxhall A.«cot Gold Cup would have admitted all the Fmma Wright branch of the No. 1" family. "The success of Watershed Cambridgeshire would have admitted all the animals descended from Maiden, by Lexington No. 4 family, and so on. "If Democrat had only followed up his ghrious two-year-old record of winning the Champagne Stakes, Coventry Stakes, Ascot. National Breeders Stakes. Sandown and Dewhurat Plate., it would have let in all the Maria West hne. but, alas, he went all to pieces after his two-year-old career." It is such minds as that of Mr. Chisman that furnish food for reflection and make for progress in the development of the bloodstock breeding industry.
