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Ethan Allen, produced fifteen foals and dropped 

 twins (one of which is still living) when she 

 was twenty-two years old. The great English 

 race mare Pocahontas lived to be thirty-three 

 years of age and produced fifteen foals; her last, 

 Auracaria, being dropped w.hen she was twenty- 

 five years old, and, contrary to what might have 

 been expected, this daughter of old age herself 

 became a great brood mare, producing, among 

 others, the grand race horses Chamant and 

 Rayon d'Or. Many other very remarkable cases 

 have been reported to me one by Mr. G. W. 

 Henry, of Burlington, la., of a mare, still living 

 at the date of his letter (July, 1882), which then, 

 at twenty-six years of age, had produced nine- 

 teen foals and was supposed to be again in foal.* 

 Several other cases have come under my obser- 

 vation where mares have produced from four- 

 teen to eighteen foals. But these are excep- 

 tional cases and no breeder can safely base his 

 calculations upon them. 



I think most experienced breeders will agree 

 that a sufficient amount of exercise and work 

 or training to thoroughly develop the physical 

 powers of both sire and dam is desirable; and, 

 having this point in view, I would not recom- 

 mend that a filly be relegated to the breeding- 

 stud until she has been trained and raced for a 

 year or two, if race horses are desired. With 



* The Breeder's Gazette, Vol. H, p. 71. 



