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there was an organization behind them that had appointed them 

 to this duty, but there never was even a shadow of such an or- 

 ganization. Mr. Brodhead was manager at Woodburn and am- 

 bitious to control the trotting pedigrees of the whole country, 

 and for the methods employed the reader is referred to page 430 

 of this volume. Mr. McDowell is simply Mr. Brodhead's echo. 

 In December, 1877, he attended the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, and out of com- 

 pliment to Kentucky he was elected president. He was about 

 the city two or three days, and before he left for home he resigned 

 without ever intimating any reason why he resigned. Mr. Veech 

 is a man of undoubted integrity and plenty of brains, and was 

 identified with the Breeders' Association from the start. Mr. 

 McFerrau and Colonel West are both dead, and while it was not 

 my privilege to know them intimately, I knew enough of them 

 to trust them as honorable and honest men. Not long after the 

 appearance of the original suggestion in the Monthly, as given 

 above, that a standard of qualifications for admission to registra- 

 tion was of paramount importance, and that the preparation of 

 such a standard was in the special province of the National Asso- 

 ciation of Trotting Horse Breeders, Manager Brodhead caught 

 the idea and the situation, and with Mr. McDowell hurried away 

 to spend a night with Mr. Veech, near Louisville, and thus fore- 

 stall the action the Breeders' Association might take in the 

 premises. They were all of one mind as to the importance of 

 keeping Kentucky in the foremost position as a breeding State, 

 but they were not all of one mind as to the means best adapted 

 to that end. Mr. Veech was very clear and pronounced in his 

 views that the way to breed the trotter was to go to the trotter 

 and not to the runner, but what Brodhead said McDowell said, 

 and that left him in the minority. Seated around a table, each 

 with a copy of Wallace's Monthly containing the table of 2:30 

 trotters under their sires, they commenced forming some rules. 

 With "The Great Table" before them they could not fail to strike 

 the self-evident requirements of a standard, and two or three of 

 their rules were very good, but as a matter of course the scheme 

 of the majority to get in all the running-bred mares possible and 

 enter them as standard trotting mares had to prevail. Hence 

 the provision for admitting the grandams. Imported Bonnie 

 Scotland was kept many years in the trotting latitudes, and just 

 got one trotter and no more at any rate of speed, hence he was a 



