Sire Sentence Examples

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  • He was the sire of, among other horses, Blaze (1733) and Snip (1736).

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  • Amongst the domestic animals are the buffalo, the Syrian camel, and a mule camel, bred from a Bactrian sire and Syrian mother.

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  • The family was of great antiquity, a Jean, sire d'Aumont, having accompanied Louis IX.

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  • Manganese when mated with Rataplan threw Mandragora, dam of Apology, winner of the Oaks and St Leger, whose sire wasAdventurer, son of Newminster.

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  • In considering telegony it should perhaps be mentioned that some breeders not only believe the dam is liable to be "infected" by the sire, but also that the sire may acquire some of the characteristics of his mates.

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  • He was also the sire of Cade, own brother to Lath, and of Regulus the maternal grandsire of Eclipse.

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  • There could be sire stats which thwart the winner.

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  • In 1982, Sire Records signed Madonna for her first major contract.

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  • On the 4th of January 1884 SirE; Baring was directed to insist upon the policy of evacuation, and on the 18th General Gordon left London to assist in its execution.

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  • In assuming this attitude Professor Weismann decidedly differed from Herbert Spencer, who some years ago mentioned that he had evidence "enough to prove the fact of a previous sire asserting his influence on a subsequent progeny."

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  • If a mare or other female animal is liable to be "infected" by her first or by subsequent mates, telegony will rank as a cause of variation, and breeders will be justified in believing (1) that pure-bred females are liable to be "corrupted" when mated with sires of a different breed; and (2) that inferior or cross-bred females, if first mated with a high-class sire, will thereafter produce superior offspring, however inferior or cross-bred her subsequent mates.

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  • In this case the first sire was a white Pomeranian, the second a crossbred Irish terrier.

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  • Brfttany This was soon seen after his death in the reaction which menaced his work and those who had served him; but thanks to himself and to his true successor, his eldest daughter Anne, married to the sire de Beaujeu, a younger member of the house of Bourbon, the set-back was only partial.

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  • In this instance, however, prejudice (and it is difficult to believe that it was anything else) was right, for King James's first venture does not appear to have been a success either as a race-horse or as a sire, and thus Arabian blood was brought into disrepute.

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  • The Stud-Book goes on to say of the Byerly Turk that he did not cover many bred mares, but was the sire of the duke of Devonshire's Basto, Halloway's Jigg, and others.

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  • Pot-8-os was the sire of Waxy (1790) out of Maria (1777) by Herod out of Lisette (1772) by Snap. Waxy, who has been not inaptly termed the ace of trumps in the Stud'-Book, begat Whalebone (1807), Web (1808), Woful (1809), Wire (1811), Whisker (1812), and Waxy Pope (1806), all but the last being out of Penelope (1798) by Trumpator (1782) from Prunella (1788) by Highflyer out of Promise by Snap, while Waxy Pope was out of Prunella, dam of Parasol (1800) by Pot-8-os.

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  • Whalebone's blood also descends through Waverley (1817) and his son the Saddler (1828), while Whisker is represented by the Colonel (1825) and by Economist (1825) and his son Harkaway (1834), sire of King Tom (1851).

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  • Stockwell, who was a chestnut with black spots, was the sire of Blair Athol (1861), a chestnut, and also of Doncaster (1870), another chestnut, but with the characteristic black spots of his grandsire; and Doncaster was the sire of the chestnut Bend Or (1877).

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  • King Fergus (1775) was the sire of Beningbrough (1791), whose son was Orville (1799), whence comes some of the stoutest blood on the turf, including Emilius (1820) and his son Priam (1827), Plenipotentiary (1831), Muley (1810), Chesterfield (1834), and the Hero (1843).

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  • Mercury was sire of Gohanna (1790), who was foaled in the same year as Waxy, and the two, who were both grandsons of Eclipse and both out of Herod mares, had several contests, Waxy generally getting the better of his cousin.

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  • The Byerly Turk's line is represented by Herod, the Turk being the sire of Jigg, who was the sire of Partner (1718), whose son Tartar (1743) begat King Herod, or Herod as he was commonly called, foaled in 1758.

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  • Cypron's dam was Selima by Bethel's Arabian from a mare by Graham's Champion from a daughter of the Darley Arabian and a mare who claims Merlin for her sire, but whose mother's pedigree is unknown.

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  • Woodpecker was the sire of Buzzard (1787), who in his turn became the father of three celebrated sons, Castrel (1801), Selim (1802), and Rubens (1803), all three chestnuts, and all out of an Alexander mare (1790), who thereby became famous.

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  • His best son was Conductor (1767) out of a mare by Snap; Conductor was the sire of Trumpator (1782), whose two sons, Sorcerer (1790) and Paynator (1791), transmit the blood of the Godolphin down to modern times.

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  • Sorcerer was the sire of Soothsayer (1808), Comus (1809), and Smolensko (181o).

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  • Comus was the sire of Humphrey Clinker (1822), whose son was Melbourne (1834), sire of West Australian (1850) and of many valuable mares, including Canezou (1845) and Blink Bonny (1854), dam of Blair Athol.

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  • By the Carlinside Frisky (Jim Currie & familys ' sire) the cow was off an Excellent very high butterfat 10,000kg Poppy cow.

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  • This 15 month old's sire was bred from Paris Show winning lines and out of a homebred cow by Gower Javelin.

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  • In both cases, these are for systems with crossbred ewes bred to terminal sire rams i.e. with all lambs intended for slaughter.

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  • However, on his sire's ' suggestion ' Prince Richard left the fief for exile in France.

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  • During the second lactation, sire effects appeared to account for up to 36% of the variation in sole lesion scores.

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  • Its main use is as a crossing sire, to produce good quality beef calves out of dairy cows.

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  • Leicester is a a proven sire, throwing kittens with wild faces.

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  • In many European countries, the leading sire may account for up to 25% of pedigree inseminations in some breeds.

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  • A horse's breeding can attract interest from buyers, so it may be worth mentioning a famous or successful sire.

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  • The Dorset Down is an ideal terminal sire, producing solid, meaty, early maturing lambs.

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  • The next price to follow was 2,700gns for Cracrop Tradesman, a June 2003 Limousin son of the senior herd stock sire Redrock Orlando.

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  • He is currently competing Advanced Medium dressage & is the sire of a graded stallion in Germany.

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  • The first line of its counts, supposed to be descended from the dukes of Normandy, had as heiress Alix (died 1227), who married Raoul (Ralph) de Lusignan, known as the Sire d'Issoudun from his lordship of that name.

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  • Enguerrand IV., sire de Coucy, died in 1320 without issue and was succeeded by his nephew Enguerrand, son of Arnold, count of Guines, and Alix de Coucy, from whom is descended the second line of the house of Coucy.

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  • The second part enters upon the history of the crusade itself, and tells how Joinville pledged all his land save so much as would bring in a thousand livres a year, and started with a brave retinue of nine knights (two of whom besides himself wore bannerets), and shared a ship with the sire d'Aspremont, leaving Joinville without raising his eyes,"pour ce que le cuer ne me attendrisist du biau chastel que je lessoie et de mes deux enfans"; how they could not get out of sight of a high mountainous island (Lampedusa or Pantellaria) till they had made a procession round the masts in honour of the Virgin; how they reached first Cyprus and then Egypt; how they took Damietta, and then entangled themselves in the Delta.

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  • Shakespeare was the son of Hobgoblin by Aleppo, and consequently the male line of the Darley Arabian would come through these horses instead of through Bartlett's Childers, Squirt, and Marske; the Stud-Book, however, says that Marske was the sire of Eclipse.

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  • Paynator was the sire of Dr Syntax (1811), who had a celebrated daughter called Beeswing (1833), dam of Newminster by Touchstone.

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  • He heard the speaker addressed as Sire.

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  • It also allows the farmer to choose from a variety of breeds to sire the calves.

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  • A horse 's breeding can attract interest from buyers, so it may be worth mentioning a famous or successful sire.

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  • The sire rating of Windy Prospect is a bit worrying.

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  • One week ago I received a letter from the AKC; a DNA analysis was done for my dog's litter and their named sire.

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  • It stated that regrettably, the registered sire was not a match, so my dog and his litter mates were removed from the AKC registry.

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  • She said that regardless of what the DNA analysis said, my dog's father is indeed the sire in question.

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  • Second, you could have the test done on your own dog to see if he's a match to the named sire.

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  • Since bitches send down multiple eggs, it's very possible that the breeder could have witnessed the breeding with the named sire, and another male could have also bred the bitch by accident and unnoticed.

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  • It would also explain why she's so certain about which dog she believes the sire is.

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  • All that has really changed is the name of his sire.

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  • If you see a litter on the vet's bulletin board you may be interested in, contact the vet to determine if the dam and sire were patients of the vet and whether the dogs were up-to-date on their shots.

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  • So even if you cannot get specific information about the health of the puppies' dam and sire, the fact that the animals are seen by a veterinarian does say something about the care each puppy is given.

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  • Be sure to ask questions regarding both the dam and sire, and ask to see shot records and other pertinent health information.

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  • Bulls rule over a herd of females and sire even a larger herd than he protects.

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  • The band was one of the first signings to Sire Records under Seymour Stein - Sire and Stein would go on to become the pioneers of New Wave music in America and worked tirelessly to establish the genre's presence on radio.

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  • Enguerrand VII., sire de Coucy, count of Soissons and Marle, and chief butler of France, was sent as a hostage to England, where he married Isabel, the eldest daughter of King Edward III.

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  • Through her mother, Marguerite de Bourbon, she was niece of Pierre de Bourbon, sire de Beaujeu, afterwards duke of Bourbon.

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  • In 1203 Geoffroi V., sire de Joinville, died while on a crusade, leaving no children.

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  • Gilles de Laval, sire de Retz (1404-1440), the comrade-in-arms of Joan of Arc and marshal of France, gave himself over to the most revolting debauchery, and was strangled and burned at Nantes.

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  • Such was the hatred of the people to the old regime that two influential councillors of Charles the Bold, the Chancellor Hugonet and the Sire d'Humbercourt, having been discovered in correspondence with the French king, were executed at Ghent despite the tears and entreaties of the youthful duchess.

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  • Guy, sire de la Tremoille, standard-bearer of France, was taken prisoner at the battle of Nicopolis (1396), and Georges, the favourite of King Charles VII., was captured at Agincourt (1415).

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  • One of the permanently striped colts, a bay, was out of a black Shetland mare by a black Shetland sire, one was by a dun Norwegian pony out of a roan-coloured Arab mare, while the third was by a Norwegian pony out of a half-bred bay Arab mare.

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  • It is supplanting the Border Leicester as a sire of mutton sheep; for, although its progeny is slower in reaching maturity, tegs can be fed to greater weights in spring - 65 to 68 lb per carcass - without becoming too fat to be classed as finest quality.

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  • This horse, who was never trained, was the sire of Squirt (1732), whose son Marske (1750) begat Eclipse and Young Marske (1762), sire of Shuttle (1793).

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  • Camel was the sire of Defence (1824) and Touchstone (1831), while Sir Hercules was the sire of Birdcatcher (1833) and Faugh-a-Ballagh (1841), own brothers, and of Gemma di Vergy (1854).

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  • Touchstone was the sire of Newminster (1848), who begat Lord Clifden, Adventurer, and the Hermit, as well as of Orlando (1841), sire of Teddington (1848).

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  • The Godolphin Barb is represented by Matchem, as the former was the sire of Cade (1734), and Cade begat Matchem, who was foaled in 1748.

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  • Yes, sire, and Moscow is now in ashes.

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