THE BREEDING QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 8

THE BREEDING QUESTION

Writing in the "Horse Breeders' Ecview," Fr. Biecker, who can be cited as the leading German authority on the thoroughbred family, is in full accord with those who hold that going beyond the fifth removes is valueless.: He says:— '. ;.-.

"There exists no; sueli . thing ps ia. foundation of 200 years" 'back' "endowed "with an~. ever-carrying power. This was, 'once -the..1, creed.,, of-the;,. primitiyaV.intellect'- pf-i breedersrj^to'S:foster which* was vthe^^hale» andj only} ,A>f Bruce 'Xowe-^b'iit :it;.fits j longer' into'a: world faced .wi.th:T.theShardrfact that its; salvationj.restsyoh, tljer shpiijders nien:: whose,- forefathiers.' h^ve' worn ;.'ijo' "sceptre or "crown. A, Korse.-br, atiy 'indiyidiial.for that matter,, is. not.what, >ve^ try ;tq,make of him; but what: he'ipr6yes?to:be:by,;'hi? deeds! ;'And s'ilie';.'deedß'.''o^;an-;^^t.^hprßeif: point with perfect, clearness! at Van..active efficiency of 'the blood a of .the nearest apcestors only. As 'Count LeKndorff-'aiid other prominent hippologists would have" it, no notice needs be taken of ancestors and ancestresses "further back than the fifth removes."