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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



CHARLES READE, 2:241,4. 



(The following story of the breeding of one of the most noted 

 Missouri-bred horses of any breed is given not alone for its his- 

 toric value, but for its value in the study of close breeding, which 

 is found in the pedigree.) 



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Sire of Tana 2:121 



" Archbishop . . . 2:19| 

 " Shepherd Boy. .2:23* 

 " Charles Reade. 2:241 



" Aurinda 2:25 



" Ecxford 2:251 



" Allen 2:281 



" Charles C 2:28| 



" Dexter 2:29 



" Falka 2:29J 



" 4 sires of 13 



performers. 

 •' 6 dams of 6 



performers. 



PRINCESS DAGM'E 



Dam of Wisteria, trial 

 (4 years) 2:25 



ETHAN ALLEN 43 BY BLACK HAWK 5 



Grandsire of 125 

 standard per- 

 formers. 



FANNY COOK 



Dam of Daniel Lambert 

 102, grand dam of 

 46 standard per- 

 formers. 



DANIEL LAMBERT 

 102 



Sire of 38 standard per- 

 formers. 

 " 25 great brood mares. 

 Grandsire 246, among 



which are 

 Baronet, 4 years. ..2:11 £ 



Pamlico 2:10 



Dandy Jim 2:191 



Prima Donna 2:09£ 



DAUGHTER OF 



Sire of 4 performers. 

 14 sires of 23 

 " 2 dams of 2. 



BY ABD ALLAH 1. 



Sire of 4 performers. 

 " Hambletonian 10 



dams of Goldsmith 

 " Maid, 2:14, and 6 



others. 



BY ETHAN ALLEN 

 43. 



Sire of 6 performers. 

 " 22 sires of 106; 

 " 14 dams of 19. 



ETHAN ALLEN 43. 



Sire of 6 performers. 

 " 22 sires of 106. 

 " 14 dams of 19. 



The history of Charles Reade starts with a theory. The theory 

 had its inception in the brain of Thomas Lafon; a dreamer and 

 student as well as horseman. He tells us all about this in an article 

 that appeared in "Bit and Spur," October 15th, 1907, entitled "How 

 Charles Reade Happened." The significant fact that we wish to 

 emphasize at the outset is that Charles Reade is not an accident; 

 but rather the logical product of a carefully figured out theory in 

 scientific horse breeding. 



It seems that it was a study of the pedigree of Maude S. that 

 gave Mr. Lafon his clue, she being by Harold who was inbred to 

 Abdellah 1, his parents being by that horse; but further their dams 

 were half-sisters, being by imported Bellfounder, which, as Lafon 

 figures, makes the immediate progenitors of Harold five-eights 

 brother and sister. Now if such cumulative inbreeding could pro- 

 duce a sire as prepotent as Harold proved himself to be when 



