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6. Class 3 evidently represents the cream of the race, 

 exceedingly prolific and highly fashionable, the most success- 

 ful getters both of speed and of breeders. 



7. These 85 sires themselves produced directly 2581 sires of 

 performers (30 apiece), this number being over 40 per cent of 

 all the sires of the breed. They produced directly 3746 per- 

 formers, or 14 per cent of all in the list. The 2581 sires directly 

 gotten by them produced 14,808 performers, or over 56 percent 

 of all in the list. This means that a little over one per cent of the 

 sires are grandsires to over half tJie breed. 



The big ten. But the highest relative excellence is well within 

 these 85 great breeders. Their average get of performers was 

 44, or over ten times the average of the race, but out of the 

 34,299 registered stallions ten, and ten only, produced directly 

 as many as a hundred or more performers each. 1 The tabulation 

 of the breeding record of these ten greatest stallions is good 

 reading for the student of prepotency, as it shows a breeding 

 power which fully justified their fame as great producers not 

 only of speed but of sires and dams of speed. 



TABLE SHOWING THE RECORD OF THE TEN GREATEST PRODUCERS 



OF SPEED 2 UP TO AND INCLUDING IQOI 



1 One of these goes in at 99. 



2 Trotters and pacers. 



