29) 
and Werght for Age and Class Races, 
adopted by the Calcutta Turf Club, show 
the difference that separates the English 
horse and the Arab on the modern Indian 
Turf; the weight allotted a Thoroughbred 
horse by the Indian scale is always at least 
three stone more than that to be carried 
by an Arab of the same age when the two 
meet in the same event 
LUCK, OR RACING UNCERTAINTIES 
When the propositions enunciated in the 
foregoing pages are applied to facts, do we 
not find much to strengthen them in the 
modern history of our breeding-studs ? 
We all see well-established and successful 
studs degenerate, not from any want of 
capital or energy, but simply from loss of 
quality in the animals produced 
We see newly-formed studs spring in a 
season into celebrity by furnishing great 
winners; this is ‘(a streak of good luck,” if 
we are to believe the public spokesmen of 
the Turf 
In my humble opinion, there is no such 
thing as “luck” so potent that the fortunes 
of one establishment consistently decline 
