ANNOUNCEMENT. 



NEW YORK, March 15, 1887. 



THE publication of this third Supplement to " Chester's Complete Trotting 

 and Pacing Record " is the best possible indication that the work is a permanent 

 one. Its authority in questions of record is now generally recognized through- 

 out the country. Whatever credit the compiler can claim for the amount of ex- 

 cellence the work contains is due to no originality or brilliancy, but to persistent 

 hard work and conscientious attention to the most minute details. Whatever 

 faults of omission, if any, there may be in it are due, not to him, but to the 

 horsemen of the country, who have failed to supply the information at their 

 command. More money has been spent in postage and circular letters, and in 

 special expeditions to secure accurate data for this Supplement, than the entire 

 cost of the edition of its only rival in this branch of statistics. My motto is, 

 that a thing that is worth doing at all, is worth doing well ; it is my belief that 

 horsemen desire a yearly book giving complete summaries of all races trotted or 

 paced in the United States or Canada, and compiled correctly, and it is my aim 

 to give them such a book. In making the compilations, it is my habit to take 

 the word of reputable men in matters of pedigree or performance, when there is 

 nothing improbable in the statements, and nothing known to the contrary, and 

 not to smother facts for the sake of useless investigation. I am happy to say 

 that the confidence I have reposed in the horsemen of America in this respect has 

 not, to my knowledge, led me into a single error of consequence ; and to that 

 confidence is largely attributable, no doubt, the unquestioned superiority in full- 

 ness and accuracy of these works. 



The price of the works is now fixed as follows, there being the parent 

 volume of about 1,000 pages, bound in half Turkey morocco, complete to the 

 close of 1883, and Supplements for each of the years of 1884, 1885 and 1886 : 



ANY SINGLE SUPPLEMENT, - $ 2.00 



ANY TWO SUPPLEMENTS, - - - - 3.00 



ALL THREE SUPPLEMENTS, 4.00 



THREE SUPPLEMENTS, Bound Like Parent Volume, 5.00 



PARENT VOLUME ALONE, - ... 7.00 



PARENT VOLUME, With Three Supplements, - 10.00 

 PARENT VOLUME, With Three Supplements Similarly Bound, 11.00 



WALTER T. CHESTER, 



P. O. Box 1021, New York City. 



