SUPPLEMENT FOR 1888, 



EXPLAN ATIO N. 



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 1888. Then fol- 

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

 amount of money trotted for, and the name of the horses beaten, in the order of their stand- 

 ing 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 "0" 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 show that lie had 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 ; " c," that he went to cart ; 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 denoting 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 case 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 re- 

 cord, 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 Hen lines each, for convenience of re- 

 ference in the Index of Beaten Horses, and the reader is referred to the explanation preceding 

 that Index. 



