BREEDING 3 1 



immense impetus to the sale of your 

 yearling if some winners by the same 

 sire are ** getting home/' and shedding 

 lustre on his fame. 



The *' Special Commissioner " who 

 writes in the Sportsman is the best- 

 versed public man in breeding theories, 

 and he generously gives most courteous 

 and gratuitous advice to blood-stock 

 breeders in the columns of that journal, 

 as to what lines of blood will mate 

 advantageously with their mares. Manage 

 as one will, however, and lavish what 

 money you please, there is no command- 

 ing success in the breeding of blood-stock. 

 The late Lord Falmouth could breed 

 classic winners just like ordinary mortals 

 shelling peas. The Rothschilds, for some 

 time previous to these last few seasons, 

 struck an unlucky vein, with Sir Bevys 

 alone to break the monotony. Very 



