FOREST PARK, 1884 



elements in a. pedigree, and their credulity can not be imposed upon by a 

 long string of worthless crosses that amount to nothing and which are only 

 calculated to mislead the few uninformed. One good sire and dam, posi- 

 tively known as possessing individual merit, are worth more in a pedigree 

 to me than four or five pages of a catalogue filled with the names of distant 

 ancestors, and laboring under this belief has prompted me to refrain from 

 extending the pedigrees in this catalogue to any very great extent, merely 

 for the sake of making them look big. 



I don't wish to impose upon or bore intelligent men with the repetition 

 of a long roll of names that really amount to nothing, but have endeavored 

 to present the breeding of the stock I offer for sale in as brief and concise a 

 form as possible. Almost any pedigree, with the assistance of the valuable 

 stud books can be extended ard drawn out until it is made to assume 

 "Jumbo-ic" proportions, and where it becomes necessary to get one up in 

 this style, for the sake of making up for the deficiency in close up and good 

 crosses, the party purchasing generally find they have an elephant on hand 

 that is hard to dispose of. 



As will be seen upon an examination of this pamphlet, I omit all foot 

 notes, merely giving the color, age, records, and pedigrees of each animal so 

 far as known and believed to be correct. The addition ot foot notes, giving 

 description, promise of speed, disposition, &c., may be regarded by some as 

 one of the most essential things in a catalogue, and while I admit they are 

 sometimes useful, in giving information to parties who contemplate pur- 

 chasing a colt, still I think there is a better and more satisfactory way for 

 the prospective buyer to get all the information he wants in regard to the 

 animal he wishes to purchase, and that is for him to "come and see for him- 

 self." 



Another reason why I omit foot notes is this: Take, for instance, the 

 catalogue of almost any breeding establishment embracing from fifty to 

 hundreds of head of stallions, mares and colts, and in scarcely any of the 

 foot notes will you find a single word detrimental to the sale of the abDve 

 animal, but each and every one possesses, in a remarkable degree, some 

 desirable quality, is the ''best gaited," the "most stylish," "very promising," 

 'good bone," "sure to make a trotter," and such expressions and many 

 more, make up the tone of foot notes. Now any man who is familiar with 

 the business of conducting a breeding establishment knows from experience 

 that where a whole stud of horses of a hundred head, or even a less num- 

 ber, are represented in the above terms, as is generally the case, that such 

 cannot be a true statement of the facts, for out of so great a number there 

 are always some that are not worthy of the mention made of them, still 

 each and every one, are said, have one or more desirable qualities to com- 

 mend it to buyers. Recognizing the fact that foot notes, as they are now 

 generally used, are so little to be relied upon as giving a true description of 

 the animal offered for sale, and as it appears to be "the style" to extol only the 



