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these rules, Wallace, who was as militant as he 

 was ingenious, got into a dispute with the Ken- 

 tucky breeders over methods of breeding, the 

 value of thoroughbred blood, the genuineness of 

 his published pedigrees and about anything else 

 that came along. So the Kentuckians started the 

 "Breeders' Trotting Stud Book," the standard 

 for it being a little modified. In a year or so, Wal- 

 lace, seeing that the war was going against him, 

 sold out his register and retired from the field. 

 Then new rules were adopted, as follows* 



'THE TROTTING STANDARD 



" When an animal meets these requirements and is duly 

 registered, it shall be accepted as a standard-bred trotter : 



" 1. The progeny of a registered standard trotting horse 

 and a registered standard trotting mare. 



"2. A stallion sired by a registered standard trotting 

 horse, provided his dam and grandam were sired by regis- 

 tered 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 grandam 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. 



