| Matriarchy of the American Turf
M.F. Bayliss, privately printed 1931. Black cloth boards, tips worn through, edgewear (sometimes through), 2 small chips from head of spine, approx. 12 pages with faint underlining most of which is in the Introduction. A classic text , of great use to any researcher. Consists largely of family tables of foundation mares. "From immemorial time horsemen had had a saying, ' The mare makes the horse'. The pages of this book contain the whole genetic history of the mares who have made the successful racehorses of the modern period in the United States". |