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also write down her future winnings — if any — 

 and the price she ultimately makes, also what her 

 stock makes — or, in plain language, all the money 

 she earns during the time we possess her. 



Let us take a hundred mares sold at an average 

 of five-and-twenty pounds, and work out roughly 

 their financial future. Out of that hundred, cer- 

 tainly not ninety will repay for keeping ; about 

 five per cent, will show a small return, and there 

 may be a winner of a selling race or two in the 

 remaining five. Most likely a good brood mare 

 may be amongst the number, and make but a 

 small figure, but the good studs are composed 

 of fashionably bred mares, who have the best 

 horses known to the racing world ; therefore their 

 stock make big figures, and the unfashionably 

 bred yearlings are sent into the sale-ring at a 

 pecuniary disadvantage, despite the fact that the 

 unfashionably bred are sometimes as good look- 

 ing as the fashionably bred " blood 'uns." 



One point should be emphasised on this sub- 

 ject. If you have a brood mare earning you 

 money, do not go on mating her with unfashion- 

 able sires, but utilise the money you get for her 

 yearlings in a plucky manner, and spend it on 

 fashionable sires. They cost big serving fees, 

 but the money will be well expended if the mare 

 is reasonably lucky. 



Brood Mares 



Blood-stock should be bred on limestone soil, 

 in order to make bone, as the familiar phrase 

 goes. Another valuable point in successfully 



