CHAPTER IV 



HORSE-BREEDING METHODS 



Large Farms— Race Records— Roadsters— Stallions and 

 Mares— Fertility Impaired by Racing— Prejudice 

 against Horses with Race Records— Small Farms- 

 Uncertainty in Breeding Trotters— Hambletonian's 

 Sons— Number of Progeny by Raced and Non-Raced 

 Horses — Ages of Sires. 



THE American trotter has been bred in all 

 parts of the country from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific, and from Canada to the Gulf 

 of Mexico, and under all kinds of conditions 

 and circumstances. To apply the principles 

 of energy to pedigree reading, it is necessary 

 to review and classify these conditions so that 

 we may properly estimate the value of any 

 particular fact when we come across it as- 

 sociated with any of the progenitors of the 

 animals being investigated. 



At all times, for nearly a century, there 

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