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NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



It is highly interesting to follow the progeny of celebrated 

 ancestresses in all its branches, with their winners or dams of 

 winners, the issue of each generation, especially in the female 

 line ; the value of the stallions being, as a rule, more univer- 

 sally known. 



Before spending a large sum of money for a brood mare, it 

 will be well to construe a genealogical table of the strains of 

 blood throughout the female side, as I have hereafter tried with 

 regard to the Queen Mary and Miss Agnes families. Nothing 

 is so appropriate to show at a glance whether the mare under 

 consideration belongs to a great racing fiimily, or whether such 

 qualities were inherited, in solitary instances only, or not all, 

 on the side of the dam. 



QUEEN MART. 



Bred 1843, by Gladiator, dam by Plenipotentiary out of Myrrha, by Whalebone 

 out of Gift, by Gobanna. 



