itors, and he finishes with these wise words, which we 

 permit ourselves to quote textually : 



" The results of last year's racing indicate clearly that 

 each distance requires a particular aptitude, and that 

 among competitors of almost equal worth, the best is he 

 who is running over his own distance. If it happens, 

 then, that it is desired by conditions of races, especially 

 to develop certain aptitudes, these necessarily will 

 appear under the model most appropriate and most fa- 

 vorable to their manifestation. There is, therefore, a 

 close co-relation between the conditions of the races, the 

 aptitudes, and the models of horse. Starting out with 

 this fact, if one realizes that the thoroughbred horse is 

 what he is made by racing associations, that as they 

 model him by the conditions of races, so he will repro- 

 duce himself in the service horses which he is commis- 

 sioned to improve, the prime importance of the functions 

 performed by the sporting authorities, whose duty it is to 

 making racing programs is at once understood. The 

 truth is that the fate of breeding is absolutely in the hands 

 of the great racing associations, and that according to 

 their tendencies they can modify at will the trend of the 

 horse production of a nation." 



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