THE STUD BOOK

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1930, Page 7

THE STUD BOOK

IMPORTANCE EMPHASISED

WELLINGTON, July 11

Commenting on this year’s issue of the New Zealand Stud Book at the Racing Conference to-day, Mr 0. S. Watkins, the new president, said that it would be the most complete record of the thoroughbred stock of the Dominion that had yet been issued.

“I think it fitting,” he .said, “to record my appreciation of the wholehearted zeal with which Mr A. H. Existed has accomplished a difficult task. He, however, is not content, as lie believes there are still some thoroughbred mares whose foaling records he has been unable to obtain. To me, too, it seems that the late president’s repeated appeals to owners of brood mares to make complete returns have failed to elicit response from a considerable number of breeders. A reliable stud book is of the very greatest importance, both to the man who owns racehorses and to the man who breeds them. I am satisfied that the time has' come when the New Zealand Stud Book can no longer he Ignored hv the New Zealand Rules of Racing. Provision should he made requiring from a breeder prompt returns of the vears record of every mare he owns, and notice of any transfer of sale. With support from tlm Conference granted, the Compiler would find his labours lessened, and the stud hook would contain a more complete record than is possible under present conditions.”