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The Journal of Heredity 
“RAMLA,” THE FIRST TO FINISH LONG DISTANCE TEST 
This pure Arab mare completed the 300 mile test in 1919 from Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, to 
Camp Devens, Mass., in 57 hours and 2614 minutes, and received the perfect condition mark ol 
50, and 92.9% for total performance. 
research in a well defined way covering 
a long period of time, and when the 
older research workers drop out, new 
men can follow, and so ultimately bring 
to light a lot of information that can 
now be seen only obscurely. 
If these facts do indeed lead into a 
comparatively unexplored field, is it 
not worth while to go further? I would 
suggest that each year the fastest run- 
ning horse and the fastest trotting 
horse be photographed and measured 
by the system I showed in an article 
some years ago in the American 
Breeders Magazine on the proportion 
of horses. 
Every best producer of speed of both 
sexes should be similarly subject to 
study and at intervals, when a famous 
horse dies, his skeleton be prepared for 
study. 
(Fig. 24.) 
These separate types of the horse 
having specific anatomical differences, 
give the breeder an opportunity to 
study the relative influence of the dam 
and the sire on the anatomy of the 
offspring. 
I know of no other family of mammals 
where a better opportunity exists, and 
only by the collection of many speci- 
mens can the processes of nature be 
understood. 
If we could establish some more laws 
of heredity in horses they would be 
applicable to all mammals to a great 
extent. 
The breeding of small animals for 
genetic research has been more attrac- 
tive because the generations require less 
time for results, and for this reason the 
horse has been much neglected. 
