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whether they would be acceptable or not, and every revised and 

 corrected edition was marked "copyrighted." 



Some of the rules that were, we might say, self-evident, were 

 not very objectionable, but others again were simply intended to 

 give Woodburn and those who had their breeding stock from that 

 establishment a great advantage over all other breeders. The 

 selfish object of the fourth rule is palpable, as follows: "Any 

 mare, the dam of any mare or stallion that has produced or sired 

 a horse, mare or gelding, with a record of two minutes and thirty 

 seconds or better." 



To the original draft of six rules, "rule seven" was afterward 

 added, which reads: "The full sister of any animal entered under 

 rules one, two, three, and four." This was the capsheaf of ab- 

 surdity, for it not only made the grandams of trotters standard 

 trotting brood mares, but all their sisters also. This not only 

 embraced a large number of running mares, genuine and bogus 

 alike, in Kentucky, but it reached across the Atlantic and made 

 one of the greatest of English dams of running horses, and all 

 her famous sisters, standard trotting brood mares in America. 

 Bonnie Scotland, the great racing sire, never was able to get a 

 trotter except from old Waterwitch, and upon the strength of 

 that scratch, his sisters and his mother and his aunts were all 

 made standard trotters. No wonder this marvelously stupid 

 production came to be known as the "Pinafore Standard." [A 

 more extended review of the "Pinafore Standard" may be found 

 in Wallace's Monthly for December, 1879, page 831.] 



But when we come to consider the ultimate result intended to 

 be reached, the scheme was not "marvelously stupid" it was 

 not the work of a fool, but of the other kind of fellow. The 

 admission of the grandmothers and all their sisters was not 

 specially intended to bring in the great English racing mare and 

 all her sisters as standard-bred American trotters, but it was in- 

 tended to bring in a great host of Kentucky running-bred mares 

 that never could trot a mile in four minutes, and place them on 

 an exact equality of rank with mares that had records of 2:20 or 

 less. This would not only place Kentucky away ahead of the 

 North in the length of her lines of inheritance, but would place 

 Woodburn away above all competitors, either North or South, and 

 with a little help of the Edgar-Bruce type, we would soon have 

 had "twelfth dam, fifteenth dam/ 7 etc., not one of them named 

 and not one of them honest. Great local, and especially personal, 



