558 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



An improvement of the greatest value and importance was made in the- 

 Great Table in the first volume of the "Year Book." This was the addi- 

 tion after the list of performers under each sire of the names of his sons 

 that had sired performers, with the number to the credit of each, and of 

 the performers out of his daughters. It furnished at a glance what a 

 horse had done, not only of himself, but through his sons and daughters, 

 and the Great Table thus improved became at once the gauge of trotting 

 blood by which breeders everywhere estimated the comparative values of 

 the different families and different sires. It was the most clear, con- 

 densed, yet comprehensive and perfect summing up of all the facts and 

 experiences of trotting history imaginable, and so apparent is this f act- 

 that nothing original has ever been attempted to replace it, while all com- 

 pilers, without exception, imitate it. The Great Table of itself would 

 have carried any book to success. 



The second volume of the " Year Book," 330 pages, contained in addi- 

 tion to the same class of matter as its predecessor, tables of sires and 

 dams, great brood mares, and fastest records. Still further improvements 

 were made in every year. Volume VI., published for 1890, was a hand- 

 somely bound book of 642 pages, with summaries of all races in which 

 heats were trotted or paced in 2:40 or better, list of best records slower 

 than 2:40, complete 2:30 lists with extended pedigrees, the Great Table 

 with the pedigrees of the sires extended, list of 2:20 trotters according to 

 records, list of 2:20 trotters under their sires, list of great brood mares, 

 sires of dams, mares the dams of producing sons or daughters, tables of 

 fastest records, champion trotters from 1845 to 1890, champions at all 

 ages from yearlings to five-year-olds, champion stallions, table of 2:20 

 pacers, and of 2:30 pacers under sires. No such comprehensive and 

 valuable mass of statistics was ever arranged, and this volume was in 

 itself a perfect encyclopedia of trotting literature. 



No eulogy of the "Year Book" is necessary, for every farmer's boy 

 knew before it was three years old that it was indispensable to all horse- 

 men. It instantly bounded into a place of authority, and to thousands 

 who felt the "Kegister" out of reach it was at once "Stud Book" and 

 "Eacing Calendar," and none of Mr. Wallace's creations performed a 

 wider public service, or attained a popularity so broadcast and sudden. 

 The new work was peculiarly fortunate in having back of it the authority 

 of the "Kegister," and the prestige of a name that had already become 

 world-wide as rendering everything it bore authoritative but even allow- 

 ing for these advantages the quick popular indorsement of the "Year 

 Book " was an eloquent testimony to the wisdom of its plan. 



CONCLUSION. 



The Wallace Trotting Kegister Company, with a capital of $100,000, was 

 organized in 1889, and October 1, of that year, all the publications be- 



