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4. "I have not noticed a sire to have any effect on the future progeny 

 of a mare by other sires, and I don't think it possible." C. E. E. Cooke, 

 Bygrave House, Baldock, Herts. 



5. " I have not in my experience noticed that when a filly is put to 

 a horse and bred a foal by him, foals from the same mare subsequently 

 born to other sires partake after the first one." W. Crosland, Buscot 

 Park, Faringdon. 



6. " I do not know that I have ever known the taint from the first sire 

 to descend in a following year to the progeny, either in horses or cows." 

 J. P. Cross, Catthorpe Towers, Rugby. 



7. " So far as my experience goes, I have not noticed that foals got by 

 different sires from the same mare have partaken after the first horse. I 

 have heard it said that if a nag-mare was first discovered by a cart-horse 

 and afterwards mated with the lighter class of stallions the foals would 

 for two or three years have a strain of the cart-horse blood in them, but 

 I have never known it." A. Collen, Hackney Stud, Saffron- Walden. 



8. "I have heard that when a filly has been put to a horse and bred 

 a foal by him, foals from the same mare subsequently born to other sires 

 have partaken after the first sire, but in my experience I have never 

 observed anything of the kind." J. Bastin, Norbury Park Farm, 

 Dorking. 



9. "I have never known a case in which a sire had any influence on 

 the subsequent produce of a mare by other sires. 



" I know many people hold very strong views in regard to this matter, 

 but I feel quite confident that their theory is founded on a mistaken idea. 



" How often do you find a smallish, undersized, insignificant-looking 

 mare that is reputed to be and instanced in her neighbourhood as a good 

 and consistent breeder, and you will hear the remark, she always breeds 

 one better than herself, and this not always to the same horse, but to 

 any decent well-bred horse she may be put to. To account for this you 

 examine her pedigree, and you find it made up for several generations of 

 weighty, typical Shire animals that have themselves been bred true to 

 type. This mare generally breeds animals that have a strong family 

 resemblance to each other, very dissimilar to herself, and perhaps not much 

 like the sire, but breeding always one type to different horses. Thoughtless 

 people are apt to say that the foals must take after the first sire, though 

 they may have none of his peculiarities really, and the people who make 

 the assertion probably never saw the sire." J. Green, Gahvich Estate 

 Office, AsJibourne. 



10. "I have had no experience to justify me in coming to the con- 

 clusion that a filly, breeding for the first time to a certain horse, and then 



