c;o " GENERAL BEALE," " HEGlRAr " ISLAM;' 



speed to the foal ; but breed any kind of a mare one may prefer, to a 

 thoroughbred Arabian horse, and they will find the nerve-power will be 

 given by the horse to the foal, thus proving again that " blood will tell." 



Animals should be bred to one blood instinct in order to be eetters 

 of a positive type ; not the desired instinct in our, with a belief that it 

 will predominate over a deficiency in the other, and that the produce 

 will be superior to either sire or dam. The talk about building up this 

 deficiency, or reducing a surplus of some one propensity through this 

 cross or that cross, is the most astonishing talk to me, from otherwise 

 intelligent men. 



For success in breeding, both male and female must be true to one 

 type ; then with united effort, the young is improved. Messenger was a 

 great getter, because the blood of both sire and dam was close to the 

 one original type, — Godolphin Arabian. 



The experience of Thomas Bates in breeding short-horns, illustrates 

 the importance of purity of blood to one type, in both male and female. 

 The repeated destruction of the foundation for the English thorough- 

 bred running-horse, through external and internal wars between 1639 

 and 1700, with every time a resort to original or primitive blood of the 

 Arabian, should be a lesson to all not to be much blinded by prejudice. 



OF EXTENDED PEDIGREKS. 



It is customary to extend the pedigree of horses back as far as pos- 

 sible. No thought is given to the blood influence, simply a desire to 

 reach at some point back, a prominent thoroughbred running-horse. 



Thus, in such pedigrees we find bloods that were supposed to pace; 

 others which were known to be mongrel-bred running-horses, with a 

 work-horse or two ; but in the end, Diomed or Messenger are certain 

 to be added, to whom to credit all good. 



All through these long lines of ancestry we find mongrel-bred 

 horses; but every time a running-bred horse is found or made to fit, 

 the enthusiastic prejudiced advocate of race-horse blood, points his 

 finger with pride to the printers' ink, of the name, — not the blood 

 instinct, lor it is not there except to run, were the animal alive. 



Now, for the benefit of such uninformed but visionary advocates of 

 Diomed blood influences, let me state how he was bred, when he was 

 foaled, and when he died, then tell me what possible blood influence he 

 can have upon any horse of to-day; or, better, we will say that he did 

 stud duty in the State of Virginia from 1799 to 1S07, and that he was 

 twenty-two years old when first covering a mare in Virginia. Of course, 



