THE GENERAL' STUD BOOK.
I understand, writes Mr Allison, that Messrs ' Weatherby intend excluding from the Stud Book in future all American stock which does not trace at all points to British importations. This would at once rule out about nine-tenths of the racehorses bred in America, for even the great Lexington traces at one- poipt to native American sources, and such animals as Caiman and Myakka are really halfbreds from our point of view. But it is to be hoped the stewards of the Jockey Club, who do not hold any control of the Stud Book, will never allow a similarly exclusive policy to be adopted in racing, nor does it seem easy to understand why Messrs Weatherby, having in the preface to Vol. 18 adopted a. perfectly reasonable scheme for offering the hospitality of the Stud Book to our friends across the Atlantic, should now close it with. ' a bang, so to speak.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 36
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155THE GENERAL' STUD BOOK. Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 36
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