SUPPLEMENT FOR 1885. 



EXPLANATION. 



The names of horses in black type, arranged in alphabetical order, are those of the winners 

 of the races, and under each horse's name the races won by him appear in chronological order. 

 All races are trotting, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, unless the contrary is shown by 

 the time, stated at the conclusion of the summary, or a different way of going indicated by proper 

 signs. After the name of the winner appears his description, as ' ' b s, " for bay stallion, ' ' br g, '* 

 for brown gelding, " gr m," for gray mare, etc. The following figures, in heavy type and in 

 parentheses, show the best record of the horse to the close of the year 1885. Then follow the 

 pedigree of the winner, when known ; the name of the nominator, place and date of race, amount 

 of money trotted for, and the names of the horses beaten, in the order of their standing at the 

 close of the race, and last comes the time of the heats. The ordinary signs are used to denote the 

 incidents and casualties of the race. Thus the character " " in connection with a number in a 

 bracket indicates that the horse, whose name that sign follows, made a dead heat in accordance 

 with the number, viz. : (3 0), signifies third heat dead. The abbreviation " dr "signifies drawn 

 " dis" distanced ; " r o," ruled out ; " w o," walk over, etc. Figures following the name of a 

 beaten horse shows that he won the heat or heats corresponding with the number. When the 

 letter " w " follows the name of a horse, it signifies that he went to wagon, and the letter " s " 

 that he went under saddle. In cases where a horse has a record to harness, or wagon, and a faster 

 one under saddle, both are given. When an asterisk (*) is attached to the figures usually denot- 

 ing a record, it signifies that the time, being over a short track, is a bar and not a record. The 



summaries preceded by dashes ( ) are subsequent victories of the horse whose description 



and record have been given, and in these, if the name of nominator, or of place of trotting, or of 

 both of these, are not given, it signifies that they are identical with those of the race immediately 

 preceding. It sometimes happens that a horse winning as a stallion wins later as a gelding, in 

 which cases the castration is shown by the change in the description, but there being no renewal 

 of the name, it will be understood that it is the same horse under changed conditions. In order to 

 keep them of record, losing performances against time are given under the name of the losing 

 horse, as a part of his history, and the fact that he lost is mentioned in the summary. The 

 numerals at the right of the printed pages divide them into blocks of ten lines each, for con- 

 venience of reference in the Index of Beaten Horses, and the reader is referred to the explanation 

 preceding that Index. 



