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Examining the 13 sires which had no 

 records, we find them ranging from 6 to 23 

 years of age, and only three cases of a sire 

 less than 11 years of age. The 6-year-old 

 sire, though not raced to a record, was 

 "worked for speed" shortly before he got 

 his son in the list. The lack of a record is, 

 therefore, a pure technicality. The horse was 

 actually developed by training, and he got 

 no other son of 2 : 10 quality after his de- 

 velopment was permitted to decline in the 

 stud. 



The other two cases of sires less than 11 

 years of age are two 2 : 10 stallions got by 

 Jay Bird a few months after he obtained a 

 non-standard record of 2 : 31^. Although 

 Jay Bird lived to be thirty years of age and 

 got nearly a thousand foals, in no other year 

 did he get a son of 2 : 10 quality. 



If we should eliminate these three cases on 

 the ground that they are in essence the same 

 thing as sires having records, then the aver- 

 age age of the remaining ten sires is about 15 

 years. Of these ten, two sires had been raced 



