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BREEDING BUREAU HELPFUL Accomplishes Much for Cause of General Purpose Horse in Empire State. NEW YOBK, N. T., April 13.— What the Breeding Bureau of The Jockey Club has done for the cause of general purpose horse improvement in the Empire State can be glimpsed from the benefits coming to the breeders of the Genesee Valley, where a majority of the stallions at service under the jurisdiction of The Jockey Club and the Federal Bemount Association are located. Horse fanciers long ago found that the region in the neighborhood of Avon, Mount Morris, Geneseo and Leroy was producing more half and three-quarter bred horses than any other part of the United States. This was not achieved in a day. It took time to convince farmers that the raising of good horses would prove a desirable adjunct to diversified farming. A ready market, however, for everything of quality that tliey produced quickly converted them. Spring activities in this respect have opened well in the region of Avon, according to Elliott S. Humphrey, manager of "Lookover," the local office of the Genesee Valley Breeders Association, who writes ; "Sales have opened up well this spring. During March a Wisconsin buyer took eighteen head at an average of 86. A Pennsylvania buyer bought five for a total of ,125 and a Canadian took a three-year-old War Call gelding at ,000. During March farmer-breeders sold ten yearlings, seven two-year-olds, four three-year-olds, one four-year-old and one six-year-old, for a total of 1,575." The Breeding Bureau of The Jockey Club came into being in 1906. and has functioned continuously through periods of gloom, when the turf seemed doomed. Its value to horse breeders and to the country at large was never more apparent than at the present time.
