86 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



different sires, the fourth and sixth being by 

 Roman (2561), but the seventh, by the same 

 bull, was a heifer. Her eighth calf was also a 

 heifer. Down Horn by Budget (1759) began 

 with a heifer; her next was a bull by the same 

 sire as the first, and then she dropped five more 

 bull calves in succession by as many different 

 sires. Fair Helen by Young Albion (15) began 

 with a bull calf, and then went on with five 

 cow calves in succession by four different bulls. 

 Florence by Lindrick (1170) began with a heif- 

 er, then a bull, then six heifers by six different 

 sires, and then two bulls, also by different sires. 

 With mares the same law doubtless applies. 

 Turning to the Stud Book I find that the thor- 

 oughbred mare Rosemary produced two males 

 from two different sires; next she produced 

 three females, two of them by the same horse 

 that got the males, then another male, and 

 then eleven females in succession from nine 

 different sires. Scythia produced six females, 

 and no males, from three different sires. An- 

 other mare by Scythian, recorded on the same 

 page, produced four males in successive years 

 from as many different sires; and still another 

 on that same page, also by Scythian, produced 

 four females by as many different sires. ^Erolite 

 produced six males to successive covers of imp. 

 Australian ; while Dolly Carter, bred to the 

 same horse, produced nothing but females. 



