Converse In- Breeding 



Say what you will about in-breeding, it is the only way of perpetuating the blood of 

 heroes. But as there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything, the remark ap- 

 plies unto breeding horses as well as to anything else. It is one of those matters wherein 

 "Very much depends upon the style in which it's done." The English began it by 

 mating together the sons and daughters of their great stallions, but out of different 

 dams, which was incestuous enough in all conscience, but the Virginians of a century 

 ago, actually mated Sir Archy with his own daughters, the stallion Ringgold, by Boston 

 (a male-line grandson of Sir Arch)', by the way) out of Flirtilla Jr. by Sir Archy out 

 of old Flirtilla who beat Ariel a $5000 match on Long Island by Sir Archy, being 

 the most convenient example at hand. Of such action only one result could be naturally 

 expected a lot of horses of greafr size and beauty but of no durability as campaigners. 



But there is a species of in-breeding that does no harm. For instance, you find a 

 great many well-bred horses in England that have Stockwell or his brother, Rataplan, 

 on one side and their half-brother, King Tom, on the other, these being in free genera- 

 tions, of course, and all the intermediate crosses entirely dissimilar. Ayrshire, now 

 probably the best male-line descendant of Touchstone on earth, has one cross each of 

 Rataplan and Stockwell and four of Touchstone, who was his fourth sire on the top 

 line and the sire of his fourth dam on the bottom line. Here are some examples of this to 

 which I have, for the want of a better name, given that of "converse in-breeding." Here 

 are three samples of this method : 



Newminster. . 



K 



<-> 1 



The Slave 



o ( Kettledrum. . . 



Haricot. 



j Camel, by Whalebone 

 \ Banter, by Master Henry 

 rj \ Dr. Syntax, by Paynator 



eswing 1 Tomboy's dam, by Ardrossan 



( it it, j Humphrey Clinker, by Comus 



. i Melbourne \ Daughter of Cervantes 



f-17 ti -I Voltaire, by Blacklock 



1 VoUey ( Martha Lynn, by Mulatto 



( The Baron, by Birdcatcher 



Rata P lan { Pocahontas, by Glencoe 



The Provost, by The Saddler 



Touchstone. . 



Hybla. 



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Otisina, by Liverpool 

 ( Liverpool, by Tramp 



Lanercost ] Otis, by Bustard 



] Gladiator, by Partisan 



"| Daughter of Plenipotentiary 



Queen Mary. . 



, . . j Voltaire, by Blacklock 



f Vedette t Voltigeur ^ Martha Lynn, by Muh 



1 ,_. _., j Birdcatcher, by Sir H 



( Mrs. Ridgway 1 x To no^^.n 1,,, TV,<,, 



Mulatto 





in -r> u ( Flying Dutchman 

 I Flying Duchess J J 







Thormanby. 



Woodbine 



Nan Darrell, by Inheritor 

 Bay Middleton, by S'atton 



s v Barbelle, by Sandbeck 



/ ,, j Voltaire, by Blacklock 



1 Mer P e 1 Velocipede's dam 



,,,. j, ( Pantaloon, byjCasirsJ .h/ 



Wmdhound \ Ph^nT^y-^clT^onT^ 



Muley Moloch, by Muley 

 Rebecca, by Lottery 

 The Baron, by Birdcatcher 

 Pocahontas, by Glencoe 



Camel 

 Dr. Syntax 



S W L~tai. TC 



Alice Hawthorn, 



{(Honeysuckle. ... 

 ox i ~ rT\ i Touchstone, by 



Stockwell \ Beeswing, by E 



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