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ness to two sons, "Chester Dare" and 

 "Highland Denmark." 



A great future demands a great past in 

 breeding horses, as well as in breeding hu- 

 man beings. That is to say, if your ances- 

 tors are not the best, your family name will 

 disappear from the honor roll, unless you 

 mate your offspring well and continue to 

 mate them well. 



You do not build a great building with- 

 out an expert master-mind to advise and 

 direct you. You cannot expect to build up 

 a healthy, brainy, enduring family unless 

 you have a competent expert to advise you. 

 What do young people either know or care 

 about racial improvement at that stage of 

 the game, until some day, when it is too 

 late, they are awakened by the sad results 

 of their own ignorant marriages ? Hence it 

 is the duty of all parents to have their chil- 

 dren instructed in the fundamental facts of 

 heredity and reproduction. 



Look at the trotting horse families that 

 were once great and are now dead and for- 

 gotten; where are the "Blue Bulls," 

 the "Champions," the "Bashaws," the 



