ANNOUNCEMENT. 



New York, March 15, 1886. 



This volume is the second annual supplement to " Chester's Complete 

 Trotting and Pacing Record," and it is placed before the public with feelings of 

 considerable satisfaction, as it comes very near realizing the ideas of the com- 

 pilei'. If there is in its pages a single erroneous record or pedigree, or a solitary 

 •case in which horses that should be separated are placed together, or vice versa, 

 or if there is a wrong reference in the Index of Beaten Horses, it is something 

 that has escai:)ed the utmost vigilance, and will be a surprise to me. The inten- 

 tion is to have these works letter-perfect, books that horsemen can repose entire 

 confidence in, in ever}^ respect. In compiling the present volume, as has been 

 the case with all my works, the records have been most carefully compared with 

 the returns on file in the office of the National Trotting Association at Hartford, 

 Conn., and will be found to agree with those in most instances. When they 

 differ, it is because this Supplement contains summaries of a number of races 

 that have never been sent to the office of the National Association, in which 

 faster heats were made than in any reported there for the same horses. Over 

 3,500 letters have been received by the compiler from owners, drivers and others 

 in regard to horses whose performances are chronicled in this book, and the 

 vast amount of information contained therein, when available and authentic, has 

 been emptied into it. The good effect of the system of correspondence that has 

 been prosecuted in its behalf is shown in the unexampled number of pedigrees 

 that the work contains. 



The compiler feels indebted to the thousands of j^eople throughout the 

 country who have assisted him with information, and discharges the indebted 

 ness by embodying all the valuable facts contributed in a convenient form. It 

 will be his aim to make each succeeding Supplement more comprehensive than 

 its predecessor, and to this end he asks not only a continuance but an increase of 

 the co-operation of those interested in such matters. 



Those who may purchase the Supplement for 1885 alone, are advised that 

 the price of the entire work, including, also, the parent volume and the Supple- 

 ment for 1884, making the record complete from the earliest dates until the close 

 of last season, is |10, and that for |8 they Avill be supplied with the two preced- 

 ing volumes. The j^rice of the Supplement for 1884 remains as before fixed, 

 $1.00 in paper, and $1.50 in cloth binding ; but hereafter the annual books will 

 be bound only in cloth, and sold at %2. 



WAT;TER T. CHESTER, 



P. O. Box 1021. 



