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out of a mare whose pedigree could never be traced. The 

 Moor, sire of Beautiful Bells and five others in the list, and of 

 the great Sultan with twenty-five in the list, was out of the 

 gamy trotting mare, Belle of Wabash, whose pedigree is also 

 untraced. 



"Warwick Boy, sire of eleven trotters and one pacer, and out 

 of the McWorther mare, dam of Kelsey, 2.23J, but whose pedi- 

 gree is still untraced, affords another instance. Western Fear- 

 naught, whose dam was not traced, is another, although he 

 sired five in the list from 2.18 to 2.29J; also the dams of 

 thirty-two in the list. 



Again, we have the great and once popular sire, Edward 

 Everett, the sire of fourteen trotters, nine sires with twenty- 

 nine trotters and four pacers, and the sire of ten dams of twelve 

 trotters ; his dam was a " said to be," etc., but undoubtedly a 

 good one. 



Clear Grit, the great Canadian sire of trotters, with seven in 

 the list, and who was sired by the Thoroughbred imported 

 Lapidist, and whose dam was a trotting mare with an untraced 

 pedigree, is the last I will mention in this connection. 



I give these instances of merit against established pedigree 

 for the purpose of more clearly illustrating my views regarding 

 the great importance of selecting stallions for breeding pur- 

 poses out of good, individual mares, whether they are standard 

 bred according to any set of rules of any breeding or registry 

 association or not. 



But I do not wish to be misunderstood in this matter, for I 

 do not advise the discarding of pedigrees, for, as previously 

 stated, I like good pedigrees as well as any breeder can, and 

 would recommend breeding from both stallions and mares with 

 the best established pedigrees to be obtained, but not obtained 

 to the sacrifice of the animal sought. 



By all means let the stallion selected as the nucleus of your 

 stud, of whatever breed you desire to engage in raising, be out 

 of one of the very best mares of that breed both as to pedigree 

 and individual merit. My experience of over forty years as a 



