THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



Reason for writing the Book. — Necessity for Practical Experience in Trnin- 

 ing. — The Author's Experience. — Improvement in Tracks and Vehicles. 

 — Causes of Improvement in Time. — Originality of the American 

 System. — Its great Superiority to the English System. — Rules as to 

 Breaking from the Trot. 



I HAVE often had applications from gentlemen in vari- 

 ous parts of the country for advice and instruction in 

 regard to the treatment of their horses, to which I have 

 been unable to make satisfactory replies. My time has been 

 too much taken up in training and driving the large number 

 of horses placed in my care to admit of my writing letters, 

 though I have always been willing to give such information 

 as I could to those w^ho sought it of me. In the course of 

 the work I have now undertaken, the gentlemen who have 

 applied to me, and those who might wish to do so, but yet, 

 knowing my constant occupation, have refrained, will find 

 all that it is in my power to communicate in regard to the 

 management of trotting-horses. The persuasions and assur- 

 ances of some of my friends have induced me to believe that 

 the results of my thoughts and experiences, plainly set down, 

 and illustrated here and there by such anecdotes and recol- 

 lections of our famous trotters as, being in point, may most 

 readily present themselves to my mind, will be interest- 

 ing to the readers of this my work, and useful to the 



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