first appeal was made to the genius of Vari- 

 ation. Looking over the world of horses, 

 he found to his hand Kentucky race-horses, 

 clean-limbed, handsome and fleet, some 

 more so and others less. So those which had 

 the most of the virtues of the horse which 

 was to be were chosen to be blended in new 

 creation. Then again, he found English 

 thoroughbred horses, selected stock of Ara- 

 bian ancestry, hardy and strong and intel- 

 ligent. These virtues were needed in the 

 production of the perfect horse. And here 

 came the need of the second genius, who is 

 called Heredity. With the crossing of the 

 racer with the thoroughbred, all qualities of 

 both were blended 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 pro- 

 geny of the mare called Beautiful Bells ex- 



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