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5" 

 ANNOUNCEMENT. 



1684-87 



The present volume is the first annual Supplement to the large and important 

 work which was published in July, 1884, and entitled, " Chester's Complete Trotting 

 and Pacing Record." For the information of those who have not examined a copy 

 of this really stupendous compilation, it is briefest to say that the parent volume is 

 to the trotting and pacing of all years prior to 1884, what this Supplement is to the 

 trotting and pacing of 1884 itself ; a complete and correct guide, and a work that 

 every person interested in such matters must, sooner or later, place in his library. It 

 is the result of years of patient toil, and was published at an expense of fully ten 

 thousand dollars. The matter it contains is arranged on the same plan as that com- 

 posing this supplement ; the pages are of the same size, and it requires nearly one 

 thousand of them to present the vast amount of information, summaries of about 

 45,000 races being given. It is beautifully and durably bound in half Turkey morocco, 

 with gilt on back and sides, and burnished edges. There are thirty-six full-page 

 illustrations, including Maud S., Alcantara, Woodward's Ethan Allen Jr., Happy 

 Medium, Administrator, Eysdyk, Cuyler, Rysdyk's Hambletonian, Aker's (formerly 

 Peck's) Idol, Thorndale, Vermont Black Hawk, Almont, George M. Patchen, Sweep- 

 stakes, Aberdeen, Indianapolis, Dictator, Jerome Eddy, Mambrino Chief, Charley B., 

 Manibrino Patchen, Startle, Pilot Jr., Harold, GrumelTs Champion, Seely's American 

 Star, Nutwood, Sherman, Smuggler, Henry Clay, Tariff, Thomas Jefferson, Princeps, 

 Belmont, Blue Bull and Independence. No pictures of those great sires, Mambrino 

 Chief, Pilot Jr., Grinnell's Champion, Seely's American Star or Henry Clay were ever 

 before published. 



The compiler has received hundreds of the most flattering testimonials to the 

 excellence of the work, and from them makes the following extracts, to indicate the 

 impression the compilation has made upon leading breeders and statisticians: 



" As accurate as is possible. "-THOMAS J. VAIL. 



44 Worth at least ten times the subscription price." GEN. WM. T. WITHERS. 



" By far the completes! work of the kind ever published." COM. N. W. KTTTSON. 



" Got up in splendid shape." HENRY C. JEWETT. 



"A monument to your perseverance and industry." H. C. MCDOWELL. 



" I thank you for the labor it has saved me." L. BRODHEAD. 



" It is invaluable." EDWIN THORNE. 



" All I hoped for. and more than I paid for." J. V. STRYKER. 



' Breeders owe you a debt of gratitude." T. ARMSTRONG. 



' The book is all that could be desired." J. P. WISER. 



4 The only complete digest in one volume." -E. C. WALKER (Veritas). 



I am delighted with it." J. W. THOMPSON. 



' A standard for all time." Turf, Field and Farm. 



4 Really a stupendous compilation." 2V. T. Herald. 



' A monument of patient labor." N. Y. Times. 



4 Would not be without it for three times $10. "- -SAMUEL GAMBLE. 

 4( Would not take $100 for it." JOHN DE MASS. 



44 Multum inparvo, the record and history of the American trotter." Chicago Horseman. 

 44 The best picture of Maud S. I have ever seen." -W. H. VANDERBILT. 

 44 Perfect resemblances of Mambrino Chief and Pilot Jr." L. HERR. 

 * 4 The picture of Sweepstakes is perfectly grand." HARRISON MILLS. 

 *' Invaluable in a well-selected library." S. T. HARRIS. 



" A great work to prepare, and I hope the pecuniary reward will be eminently satisfactory." GROVER CLEVE- 

 LAND. 



" It is got up in splendid style, and I do not see how it could be improved upon." N. J. COLEMAN. 

 " I do not see how I ever got along without it." GEO. W. VOORHEES. 

 *'I am proud to show it to my frit'iids." E. L. NOHCBOSS. 



The foregoing testimonials could be multiplied ten-fold, but should be sufficient 

 to demonstrate the great value of the work. It is, to a certain extent, a duty for 

 people interested in trotting statistics to sustain such an enterprise, and it is a fact 

 that the compiler is at present out of pocket to the extent of half his investment in 

 this great and costly work. The price of the " Complete Record" is $10, but any 

 one who has a copy of this supplement will receive the parent volume on remitting 

 $9.00. In time, a convenient number of annual books can be bound together to cor- 

 respond with the large work. Address, 



WALTER T. CHESTER, 



P. O. Box 1021, New York City. 



M326399 



