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If this subject were pursued further, it would show a gain of 37 among the out- 

 crossed horses for St. Simon, but it would also show a gain of 17 for Isonomy (who 

 had four crosses of Sir Hercules), 13 for Sterling, 21 for Hermit and seven for 

 Macaroni, which would bring the figures up to 197 for the in-bred stallions and to 204 

 for the out-cross horses. The proposition is almost as broad as it is long. By adding 

 Blair Athol to it you would bring the inbred stallions' get up to 204 exactly for he got 

 two winners of the St. Leger and one each of the July Stakes, Derby, Two Thou- 

 sand, One Thousand and Doncaster Cup. What an all-round stallion Blair Athol must 

 have been to head the list four times and be twice second with only five classified, 

 winners to his credit altogether. And there would be about twelve for Galopin to 

 go among the inbred horses which would put them well into the lead again. 



Looking over the case calmly and dispassionately, I can see no other way of pre- 

 serving and perpetuating the blood of heroes save by judicious in-breeding. Take 

 the Marquis, who won the St. Leger and Two 'Thousand Guineas of 1862. He was 

 by Stockwell a gr. gr. gr. grandson of Whalebone ; and his dam was by Touchstone, 

 a male-line grandson of Whalebone; and .StockwelFs dam was by Glencoe, whose 

 grand-dam, Web, was a full sister to Whalebone. Take Lord Lyon, also by Stock- 

 well. His dam was by Paragone, son of Touchstone, aforesaid and his fourth 

 dam was Pawn Jr. by Waxy, she being a sister-in-blood to Whalebone. St. Albans was 

 outcrossed very much on his dam's side, though his maternal grandsire was by Panta- 

 loon out of a sister to Touchstone. Doncaster, also by Stockwell, had a daughter of 

 Teddington for his dam and Teddington was a male-line grandson of Touchstone. 

 Take the fifteen outcrossed stallions in the foregoing list and you will find the male 

 lines of no less than six of them are just about extinct and four of them entirely so 

 These four are Emilius, Lanercost, Venison and Velocipede, while Kingston's line 

 and Ion's exist only in Australia and are very weak at that. There was a horse of 

 Ion's line imported Mariner in California, some years ago, but I presume he is 

 dead by this time as I have heard nothing of him. He was an unusually heavy- 

 boned horse and, for that reason, should have been sent to Kentucky, where their 

 mares are decidedly "shy" on that great prerequisite in a matron. 



I submit this question to the good sense of the American breeders with my opinion 

 that there is as much to be said on one side of it as on the other. 



