THE LIGHT-HARNESS BREEDS OF HORSES 87 



registered standard trotting horses, and he himself has a 

 trotting record of 2 : 30 and is the sire of three trotters 

 with records of 2 : 30 from different mares. 



" (3) A mare whose sire is a registered standard trotting 

 horse and whose dam and granddam were sired by regis- 

 tered standard trotting horses, provided she herself has a 

 trotting record of 2 : 30 or is the dam of one trotter with a 

 record of 2 : 30. 



" (4) A mare sired by a registered standard trotting 

 horse, provided she is the dam of two trotters with records 

 of 2 : 30. 



" (5) A mare sired by a registered standard trotting 

 horse, provided her first, second and third dams are each 

 sired by a registered standard trotting horse." 



To assist still further in the establishment of a breed, 

 the Register Association has made known (February 5, 

 1908) a contemplated change in the requirements for 

 admission to the standard, looking to the elimination of 

 all the foregoing rules except rule number one. 



93. Influence of the standard. 'At first, the impor- 

 tance of the standard, both as to performance and pedi- 

 gree, had an undue influence. If a horse was standard it 

 was thought that that was all that was necessary, and if a 

 sire succeeded in piling up a large 2 : 30 list that was later 

 considered the sum total. Now breeders are also con- 

 sidering the fact that a performance of 2 : 30, with im- 

 proved tracks, sulkies and appliances, does not mean 

 much, and they are considering the amount of extreme 

 speed as a very desirable quality, with a long line of pro- 

 ducing lineage in the pedigree. At this point, the impor- 

 tance of the breeding of the dam and her value as a 

 producer of speed entered into the operations of most breed- 

 ing farms. In conjunction with this, the money-making 



