PREFACE 



a man who has been instrumental in breeding 

 extreme speed of the 2.10 and world's record- 

 breaking sort. 



Judging by the successful experience in caring 

 for the sires and dams of 2.10 performers, also 

 in the care and management of the 2.10 per- 

 formers themselves during the early period of 

 their existence, there is no man living who is so 

 competent to furnish the materials of a work of 

 this kind as Mr. John Bradburn, who was the 

 superintendent of the noted Village Farm estab- 

 lishment from a period long before a 2.15 per- 

 former was ever bred there until the dispersal 

 sale of the Village Farm stock. 



At the earnest and persistent solicitation of 

 many of his intimate friends, and also of many 

 practical breeders who were not personally 

 acquainted with him, but who knew him through 

 the reputation that he had made as the successful 

 manager of the renowned Village Farm establish- 

 ment, Mr. Bradburn was finally persuaded to put 

 on paper for the benefit of trotting-horse breeders 

 the knowledge that he has gained in the breeding 

 and care of choice race-winning trotting stock 

 during those many years of experience. 



The information contained within these covers 

 will be of great service to all who are breeding 

 and raising or have the care and management of 

 trotting stock or light-harness horses of any kind. 

 It will be worth many times its cost to every one 

 who owns a good brood-mare or stallion, because 

 it is a book of valuable facts. 



