PREFACE 



Breeders of trotting stock have for a long 

 time felt the need of a reliable work on the proper 

 selection of mares for brood purposes, giving in 

 detail the care and treatment that they should 

 receive in order to put them in the best possible 

 condition to impart vigor to their offspring and 

 also transmit to their foals their own superior 

 qualities in the highest possible degree. They 

 have wanted a work which will also give minute 

 instructions in regard to the feed, exercise and 

 care of stallions at all seasons of the year, par- 

 ticularly just before and during the service season, 

 and in addition to the above, will tell how to care 

 for the foal and its dam from the time the young- 

 ster is conceived until he or she is in fit condition 

 to place in the hands of an expert trainer to be 

 conditioned for the rich futurities. 



Every one interested in breeding trotting stock, 

 and especially all those just entering upon the 

 business, will admit that such a work, coming 

 from a man who has had years of successful 

 experience in the business and knows every 

 detail of it thoroughly, must be of inestimable 

 value. 



Very few men are qualified to furnish the 

 matter for such a work. We have never yet 

 seen a book of that kind, and do not know that 

 one has yet been published that has come from 



