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in the progeny. The next generation partook of all desirable traits 

 and again of undesirable ones as well. Some the one, and some the 

 other, for sire and dam alike had given the stamp of its own kind 

 and for the most part in equal degree. But again never in a degree 

 quite equal, and in some measure these matters varied with each 

 sire and each dam, and with each colt of all their progeny. It was 

 found that the progeny of the mare called Beautiful Bells excelled 

 all others in retaining all that was good in fine horses, and in re- 

 jecting all that a noble horse should not have. And like virtues 

 were attached to the sires called Palo Alto, Electricity and Elec- 

 tioneer. 



But there were horses and horses ; horses not of the chosen breed, 

 and should these enter the fold with their common blood it would 

 endanger all that had been already accomplished. For the ideal 

 horse mating with the common horse controls at the best but half 

 the traits of the progeny. If the strain were to be established, the 

 vulgar horse flesh must be kept away, and only the best remain in 

 association with the best. Thus Segregation, the third of the genii 

 was called into service lest the successes of this herd be lost in the 

 failure of some other. 



Under the spell of Heredity all the horses partook of the charm 

 of Beautiful Bells and of Electricity and of Palo Alto, for firmly 

 and persistently all others were banished from their presence. 

 There were some who were not strong, some who were not sleek, 

 some who were not fleet, some who were not clean-limbed, nor 

 docile, nor intelligent. At least, they were not so to the degree 

 which the dream of fair horses demanded. By the force of Selec- 

 tion, all such were sent away. Variation was always at work mak- 

 ing one colt unlike another; Heredity made each colt a blend or 

 mosaic of traits of sire and of grandsires and granddams ; Selection 

 left only good traits to form this mosaic, and the grandsire and 

 granddam, sire and dam, and the rest of the ancestry lived their 

 lives again in the expanding circle of descent. 



Thus in the final result, the horses who were left were the horses 

 of their owner's dream. The future of the breed was fixed, and 

 fixed at the beginning by the very framing of the conditions under 



