UNUSUAL PEDIGREE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 4

UNUSUAL PEDIGREE

TOWN BEAUTY'S LINES

On.the first day of the recent Wellington Meeting the 'breeding of Town Beauty was.given in error as by Archiestown from Beauty, but the mistake was rectified on the later days, when his correct breeding, as by an Archiestown colt froni Beauty, was shown. Town Beauty's pedigree is not especially enlightening when extended, and because ot his short maternal line he must at present be classed as half-bred, though there would seem little doubt that he is thoroughbred. .Should he be a winner of an important race later on an effort would probably be made to discover his full anceptiy. so that [admission to the "Stud Book'might be > claimed for his dam. Ihe fact of a short maternal -line doea not necessarily mean that his blood on that side is not of the first water. Hunting Cry is from a mare with a short lino; a£ d .so is Equitas, through whom wo had obtained such notable performers as Oratress, Oratrix, and Concentrate, and who was admitted for registration to the "Stud Book as being four removes from her ancestress of unknown blood. Admitting all this, however, Town Beauty has a very ordinary bottom half to his paternal ancestry, even though it may be quite thoroughbred, and, unless he proves himself an excepbonal performer, he must possess very little saleable value. J h« si. re of t Ti> w A n Beauty is given as a fcolt by imported Archiestown from Merema, a mare by Westmere (a son of Muskets son, Escutcheon) from Anterina, by imported Anterog (a son of Loiterer). This hrnpfl "" St?f Book" Pedfere*. but few breeders would care to mate their mares