Effects of Two Generations 117 



carriages, busses, delivery wagons, and doing 

 general work, and which later were bred once 

 or a few times to convenient stallions. Such 

 facts make it abundantly clear that two 

 generations of idleness in the same sex 

 are fatal to the production of 2 : 10 

 speed. 



The horse Almont was a famous sire in 

 his day, and he is far enough back in history 

 for us to get a good perspective of him and 

 his descendants. His fame rested partly on 

 merit, partly on relationship and partly on 

 skillful advertising. The books show that 

 nearly two hundred of his sons were used for 

 breeding purposes. Of these, about ten per 

 cent, were raced, the other ninety per cent, 

 being considered too valuable to be sent to the 

 track. As sires, the sons which were raced 

 outranked the unraced sons more than six- 

 teen to one. The present object, however, 

 is to examine the individual history of Al- 

 mont and compare that history with the 

 quality of his offspring got at different times 

 in his life, that quality being determined by 



