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is named '' do doubt a very superior race-horse, but his stock, 

 though stout, is deficient in speed. Bee's-wing is another good 

 example ; and her sons, Newminster, Xunnykirk, and Ohi 

 Port ; Queen of Trumps, also ; but in her remote ancestry there 

 is an extraordinary influx of Herod's blood." Success is some- 

 times had by re-uniting, after an interval of several genera- 

 tions, a series of good strains. Hence, it is supposed, pure 

 Boston blood would be of great benefit in England. " West 

 Australian is a valuable example of a good out-cross after in- 

 breeding." " One of the most thoroughly-crossed pedigrees of 

 the day is that of Kingston ; and being such a good horse as he 

 was, his case must be allowed to weigh in favor of this kind of 

 breeding." " I conceive nothing better than this game horse." 

 The out-cross "is not so much in reference to running as to 

 breeding." " There are cases," like that of Sir Archy, " where 

 a horse begets racing stock out of all sorts of mares, as Touch- 

 stone, a grandson of Whalebone, carrying his grandfather's 

 fame still further." But in breeding, the brood-mare must 

 unite high qualifications, in blood, frame, health, and temper ; 

 as "like begets like," but subject to the various considerations 

 partly alluded to. " Like the brood-mare, the stallion requires 

 several essentials," as in the mare ; but " he must not only be 

 suitable per se, but he must also be adapted to the particular 

 mare." " Tlie rock upon which most men split is a bigoted 

 favoritism for some particular horse." " If not already twice 

 bred in and in," it is recommended to seek " the best stallion 

 of the best strain in the mare's pedigree." " A cross into blood 

 already existing in the mare, but not recently in-bred, nor used 

 more than once, will sometimes answer," "It is commonly 

 supposed that one or the other of the parents should be of 

 mature age ; and that if both are very young or very old, the 

 produce will be decrepit or weakly." " The general practice 

 of breeding is to use young stallions with old mares," and vice 

 versa. 



" The various crosses since the days of Herod, Eclipse, and 

 Matchem, are so numerous that it is no longer possible to class 

 them ; " " far less from the Godolphin and Darley Arabians, 

 and the Byerley Turk," from which all the best pedigrees are 



