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of the winner, " and not to the winner him- 

 self. As late as 1905, a breeder told me that he 

 would not keep a brood mare which had ever 

 worn harness, and that he would have noth- 

 ing to do with any stallion that had ever 

 been raced. The same breeder said further 

 that he would not accept as a gift the stud 

 services of the horse which was then the 

 champion stallion of the world. Views of the 

 same character, though less extreme, were 

 frequently expressed in some of the horse 

 papers at an equally late date. 



There are many things in horse literature 

 which show the prejudice of breeders against 

 using for breeding purposes those stallions 

 which went to the race track, but perhaps 

 the best way is to go to the stud book (tech- 

 nically known as the Trotting Register) and 

 see what it was that the breeders registered 

 and what they neglected to register. Ham- 

 bletonian 10 was the founder of the leading 

 family of American trotters, and his merit 

 was recognized before he reached middle life. 

 He had ten sons which went early to the 



