30 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



"Royal Georges," the "Messenger Du- 

 rocs," etc.? When the crucial test of 

 reproducing speed, stamina and intelli- 

 gence, was applied, each failed. Each 

 family went out of existence because their 

 offspring began to show the undesirable 

 qualities of their ancestors, as errors had 

 been made in the crosses. 



Confucius, of old, was a gneat scien- 

 tist. When he discovered that ances- 

 tral traits, tendencies, facial and bodily 

 characteristics had been inherited by his 

 own generation from generations that lived 

 a thousand years before and were then be- 

 ing passed on to future generations, it was 

 too great a mystery for him to fathom, so 

 he instructed his followers to cultivate an- 

 cestor worship — and the Chinese practice 

 it, even today. 



Stallions and mares sometimes cast back 

 to an undesirable ancestor; and, again, to 

 a desirable ancestor. 



Whenever my stallion "Onward" had a 

 chestnut colt, I would be awakened at night 

 by the brood-mare man, to be told that a 

 "Champion" was born. That uneducated 



