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tions. A record indicates that a horse has 

 been trained and raced, though frequently 

 only to a small extent, but the absence of a 

 record does not prove the absence of dy- 

 namic development. Many highly developed 

 stallions and mares never had race records. 



Until recent years it has been the practice 

 to use as carriage horses or roadsters those 

 horses which have been on and have retired 

 from the race track. Wealthy men of sport- 

 ing proclivities have bought up large num- 

 bers of retired racers and have maintained 

 large stables of them for no other purpose 

 than their own amusement. The result has 

 been that, prior to about 1900, a very small 

 proportion of those horses which were cam- 

 paigned on the race track later entered the 

 breeding establishments. These earlier con- 

 ditions are those which interest us, because 

 that is the time when the parents and grand- 

 parents of our present trotters lived. 



Persons interested in breeding the trotter 

 usually have large numbers of brood mares 

 and several stallions. Brood mares soend 



