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eliminate this or that weak point and 

 strengthen this or that good point. 



He knows that to get money, he must have 

 with the blood strong healthy pedigrees. 

 Sprinters are bred one way, and long dis- 

 tance runners another. The lungs, the 

 bone, the construction of the body, joints, 

 etc., of each family are most carefully con- 

 sidered ; so, is it any wonder that the Mas- 

 ter of Pedigrees produces the best thor- 

 oughbred race colts in the world? 



My good horses have all come from fit 

 matings. Not always, when I make what I 

 consider a promising mating by uniting 

 blood lines of distinction, do I get a horse 

 of real value. The best blood lines some- 

 times fail to produce offspring of distinc- 

 tion. This we breeders expect. It takes 

 time to breed out some latent family fail- 

 ing in the horse family, just as it does in 

 the human. 



In breeding horses, the thing we can count 

 on with absolute certainty is that, while all 

 good matings may fail to produce good 

 horses, bad mating never produces a good 

 horse. We count absolutely on the unfit 



