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longer than twenty minutes, was when he was taken from Pittsburg to Louisville. 

 He never slept two hours in all that four days' journey and wanted to fight at every 

 foot of the way. And now, having given you some of the most remarkable cases 

 of in-breeding in the earlier periods of American racing, let me now show you a 

 comparative table of what the in-bred and out-crossed stallions achieved in getting 

 winners of the nineteen most important, because the oldest established races in Eng- 

 land since 1810. By out-crossed horses is meant those whose sires are bred away from 

 their dams : 



IN-BRED STALLIONS SINCE 1800 



OUT-CROSSED STALLIONS SINCE 1800 



