. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. ice withyou and those other writers who have never yielded tothe tirade against this view led by the late compiler ofthe Trotting Register. His deep-seated prejudicesagainst the thoroughbred and in favor of what hecalled pacing blood in my judgment totally disqual-ified him as a candid and truthful renderer of pedi-grees, during most of the time he was so employed. I can foresee that your book will be of great valuein controverting many important instances falsely ofrecord, on account of this unfortunate bias of the for
. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. ice withyou and those other writers who have never yielded tothe tirade against this view led by the late compiler ofthe Trotting Register. His deep-seated prejudicesagainst the thoroughbred and in favor of what hecalled pacing blood in my judgment totally disqual-ified him as a candid and truthful renderer of pedi-grees, during most of the time he was so employed. I can foresee that your book will be of great valuein controverting many important instances falsely ofrecord, on account of this unfortunate bias of the for-mer compiler of the Register. Your careful work insearching and compiling evidence for the vindicationof the real, and the controversion of distorted, horsehistory, has always commanded my respect and ad-miration. Many a time I have laboriously gone backthrough old files of The Breeder to re-read such mat-ters from your pen. The convenience of having themin book form will be a boon to Yours fraternally, PETER C. KELLOGG,Otherwise Hark Comstoek. New York, January, The American Trotter. INTRODUCTION. America surpasses all other nations of the world inmany respects, but probably in none other more than inthe quality of its light-harness horse. The trotters andpacers bred and raised here excel in speed those pro-duced in any other quarter of the globe. This is due toseveral causes, prominent among which are our parlortracks, light-harnesses, so fashioned and adjusted as toallow the greatest freedom of action, light, easy-runningsulkies, which are the best in the world; the skill ofAmerican trainers of trotting horses, and farriers, bothof whom are superior to those of any other nation intraining and balancing the trotter. The chief cause ofthe superiority of our trotters, however, is undoubtedlydue to the excellent foundation for a trotting familythat was laid in this country by the English runninghorse, imported Messenger, and the methods followedby American breeders. As a
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