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...Germaine Vuillier, breeding manager of the Aga Khan's racing stables, is against trying to produce a plus from two pluses; see SPORT, "My Magic Is Science...
...most remarkable figures in thoroughbred racing is France's stout carelessly dressed Germaine Vuillier 71, the grandmotherly breeding manager behind the traditions and the profit of the famed Khan family stables. In recent months Madame Vuillier's success has even begun to make a racing buff out of family's spokesman who has always been bored by horses: 23-year-old Karim the reigning Aga Khan and son of the Sportsman Aly Khan, who was killed in May at the wheel of his Lancia. When Aly's will was published last week, it declared that...
...description makes Mme. Vuillier blush like a Cub Scout den mother who has been praised for her chocolate-chip cookies. "Please don't call me a magician," she says. "My magic is science. My art is genealogy. A good pedigree reads to me as a Bach fugue sounds to a musician. It's heredity that's winning, not the horse. What difference does it make what the horse looks like, so long as he has the correct genealogy...
Just a Pair. Mme. Vuillier cares so little about the looks of her horses that she seldom visits the stables, almost never goes to a race. Her system of producing a winner begins and ends with a theory of breeding developed by her husband, Colonel Jean-Joseph Vuillier, who ran the Khan stables from 1927 until his death in 1931. The colonel found that hundreds of winning thoroughbreds carried in their veins certain fixed proportions of blood derived from a handful of great horses of the late 19th century. What was more, Vuillier traced the pedigrees of 654 winners back...
Each winter Mme. Vuillier pores over the genealogies of the world's outstanding horses to find the proper blends of blood that will produce a winner. Says she: "Call me, if you will, a 'mixer of cocktails.' " She avoids the common practice of inbreeding her own horses on the ground that it weakens the strain. She often mates two glue-footed platers "We're just looking for a pair of horses with the right traits that will dominate m the offspring," she explains. "The chance of producing a winner from two outstanding horses is smaller than...