The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-11
SIRE AND DAM.
What Kind of a Cross VIII Produce the
Best Race Horse?


What Kind of a Cross VIII Produce the
Best Race Horse?
The Horseman recently offered prize
of $25 for the best essay on how to breed
thoroughbred prize winner. The essay.
list was to select from three great strains
of blood the particular stallion that he
would breed to given mare. There has
been much lively discussion recently as
to the relative Importance Of sire and
dam in the transmission of qualities to
the offspring. Many are of opinion that
the Importance of the male animal is
overrated except in the matter of
breeding up herd of domestic ami
mails of any kind
Interesting papers were received by
The Horseman in response to its offer.
One writer says:
While each individual animal is the
offspring of pair, the majority of
breeders have ever been most concerned
about the stallion As the male seems to
be the most potent element in variation,
these breeders are ON the right road Us
long as they are improving an inferior
strain, or breeding up" When, how
ever, you have a female of the best
blood, from lines tested for more than a
hundred years, some attention to the
special needs of those strains is neces-
sary. The investigations of Darwin led
him to advance the theory that the fe-
male represents the conservative side in
reproduction.
Experience seeming to support this
theory, proceed upon the assumption
that it is prevailing law. In the an
cestry of the thoroughbred horse there
are many producing lines tracing to COM
mon female progenitors of early record
in the Stud Book. Naturally the weaker
have been eliminated by time, nor can
they in the future have value in the
pedigree of a thoroughbred. OF the re-
naming lines some have been most sue
cessful in their SONS and others i'm their
daughters.
Another writer gives the cross he
would choose in order to produce great
race horse as follows:
We're / owner of the intensely inbred
Wilkes Mambrino Patchen mare Sup
pose So, l would mate her with Arion,
thereby obtaining not only an outcross,
but also the very desirable Electioneer-
Nutwood combination, through its fast
est representative. The blood lines of
Suppose So are four crosses to HANDLE
tonian George Wilkes and Middletown
contributing two each), seven to Mann
brine Chief, five coming through Nam
brine Patchen, and one each to Ameri-
can Star and Blue Bull. The nearest
line to Hambletonian, in Arion, is
through Electioneer, and his two crosses
to Mambrino Chief are remote on his
dams side. The Electioneer- Wilkes,
Nutwood Wilkes and Electioneer- Nut
wood indications have proved emf
nently successful; the intermingling OF
the three lines, such rs would result in
the Arion- Suppose So foal, could hard
ly fail in being vastly superior to the
two cross combinations.
Baron Wilkes, Patchen Wilkes and
Wilkes Boy, bred somewhat like Sup
pose-So, though in less exaggerated de.
gree in the Wilkes Patchen blood, got
their fastest performers from mares OF
dissimilar breeding. Baronet and Ru.
binstein were out of Morgan dams Joe
Patchen and Fayora got outcrosses on
the maternal side, as did Angelina, the
fastest trotter by Wilkes Boy.
To inbred further along the lines
which in Suppose So are redoubled &c
such an extent would be manifestly
wrong, and therefore, believing that in
other than the Wilkes family must
i l.. 4. =. I
have selected Arion in the belief that
his blood is the most desirable cross foi
Il mare bred like the one in question.