High Praise for a Valuable and Clever Breeder's Guide The "Morning Post's" racing correspondent, "Watchman", writes of.a recent publication by Major H. E. Keylock, of Shanghai Breeders of bloodstock, as well as others who are interested in the science of producing good race-horses, will find a mine of information presented to them in a remarkably clear and handy form in "Thoroughbred Pedigree Charts," designed by Mr. H. E. Keylock, ¥.R.0, V.8., and just published at ten guineas by the British Bloodstock Agency, £6 Charing Cross Road. The vast amount of labour which was involved in the preparation of this volume is manifest. At first glance the published price may appear stiff, but it is obviously a very costly production.
In any case the subscribers will be getting full value, for its pages contain in concise form the essential facts of the "Stud Book" and the "Racing Calendar" for more than century. These charts show, in tail female line, the descent. of the principal thoroughbred animals that: have distinguished themselves on the course or at the stud farm from our earliest records. They. include, too, many horses which have gained distinction on the Turf abroad. The pedigrees of all animals are traced back to an original foundation mare, and the important races they may have won are recorded. The families in which they belong on the Figure System are likewise shown.
The whole forms a fascinating picture of how the most famous female families have come into existence, and those who endeavour to follow the sound advice of "breeding winners as they have been bred," will certainly derive incalculpable assistance from, Mr. Keylock's charts. There As an irre-preachable index, as well as an alphabetical list of the dams of all
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