eg "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



am a very sceptical man in matters of recorded pedigrees. One of 

 the greatest brood mares in America, as a producer of the highest rates 

 of trotting speed in every colt, by any horse, is recorded with a long 

 pedigree which I know to be positively false ; for both herself and dam 

 were bred and raised near me, and I know all about them ; but because 

 thoroughbred runninsr-horse blood is so fashionable in the sire or dam, 

 her pedigree is loaded with it, in print. Her owner is one of the promi- 

 nent men in the country, and to attack the pedigree of his wonderful 

 brood mare would injure me, without doing any good. In another 

 instance, where I wrote the owner that the breeding of his horse as 

 advertised to the public was a mistake, showing him where, he replied 

 by letter, which I still have, saying, " My horse has a good pedigree 

 and is recorded. Until a man can give me a better one, his advertised 

 breeding will not be changed." Now, no man need fear me, for I prefer 

 to die with these errors unrevealed rather than endure any more in- 

 justice than I have, from trying to help breeders at large, through telling 

 them where their "Chester white" was a " Berkshire bred" to my per- 

 sonal knowledge. 



"Blood Will Tell." 



