IN-BREEDING-OUT-CROSSING.



  Defence, Pyrrhus the First, and Cowl have made their mark
by producing good brood mares, and Alarm, though not having
sired any very prominent horses, got many useful animals. The
rest, viz., Touchstone, Melbourne, Voltaire, Voltigeur, Ion, Saun-
terer, Newminster, Velocipede, Harkaway, Kingston, Scottish
Chief, Flibustier, and Sterling, are above discussion.
  The sixth and la.st category comprises eighteen stallions, of
whom Kisber and Lollypop have been too recently trans-
ferred to the stud to allow of their merits as stallions being
considered.
  The reputations of The Duke (sire of Bertram, and conse-
quently grandsire of Robert the Devil), Lord Lyon, Favonius,
and Wen lock, may not be sufficiently established, yet should
I let three of their number pass as successful.
  Breadalbane gets handsome horses; his stock, however, with
few exceptions, suffer from too great an excitability of temper
to bear severe training. To produce racehorses I should, there-
fore, not rank him amongst the sires with incontestable claims
to recognition.
  Ely is a dead failure at the stud; the rest, viz., Birdcatcher,
West Australian, Stockwell, Rataplan, Savernake, St. Albans,
Macaroni, Blair Athol, and Lambton, must be accepted as of
undoubted excellence, a certificate of merit I should like to
extend to Rustic, in consideration of the manner in which he
has availed himself of the few chances offered him.
  By sunning up the foregoing remarks in shape of a com-
parative table of the successful stallions in their several cate-
gories, we arrive at the following result:


                Category.                a ,


With parents one degree removed.4                    1 ()
          two degrees"      ......   .   14      4      3
          three "    "      .......      22     12()   3
          four            .' ". ...... 21       20      1
          five "     ".     ......      25   I 20       2
          s1ix            . . .. ... .   18     13    2



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