ANNOUNCEMENT. 



NEW YORK, April 1, 1888. 



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

 ami Pacing Record" has been somewhat delayed, chiefly because of the existence 

 of both the National and American Trotting Associations, and the necessity 

 of making comparisons with the official records at the Detroit as well as at the 

 Hartford office. Besides, the establishment of the "Western Association, and 

 the spirit of rivalry between the two, if it has not augmented the number of 

 trotting and pacing races, has certainly brought more tracks into membership 

 with one or the other allegiance than the National alone ever had, and caused a 

 corresponding increase in the volume of reports which a careful compiler in this 

 peculiarly dubious field of statistics is obliged to scan with the closest scrutiny 

 if he would approximate accuracy in his work. Yet the Supplement makes its 

 appearance, not much behind time, and I trust that it will be found fully equal 

 to any of its predecessors in correctness and completeness. 



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

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

 of 1883, and supplements for each of the years 1884, 1885, 1886, and 1887 : 



SINGLE SUPPLEMENT, . $2 00 

 ANY TWO SUPPLEMENTS, .... 3 00 



ANY THREE SUPPLEMENTS, . . . . 4 50 



ALL FOUR SUPPLEMENTS, .... 6 00 



FOUR SUPPLEMENTS, Bound like Parent Volume, . . 7 00 



PARENT VOLUME ALONE, ..... 7 00 



PARENT VOLUME, With Four Supplements, . . 12 00 



PARENT VOLUME, With Four Supplements Similarly Bound, 13 00 



WALTER T. CHESTER, 



P. 0. Box 1021, New York City. 



