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corded to the numbers following the name of a 

 horse. The word "registered'' is one to conjure 

 with and it has been made a scapegoat to bear 

 away into the wilderness of credulity a vast load 

 of inferiority. 



Too many are willing to believe that because 

 a horse is registered in some stud book he must 

 be a good one. This easy credulity has led to 

 the establishment of bogus books of record in 

 which registration implies absolutely nothing, 

 but that the certificate has been granted and the 

 recording fee paid. Ignorance of the real value 

 of record and of the names of the stud books in 

 which registration really means something has 

 caused many a man to pay his money for a 

 grade in the belief that he was buying a pure- 

 bred. In the appendix to this volume will be 

 found a list of all the stud books recognized by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture at 

 the date of publication. It will be seen that the 

 list is a long one and it has grown to its present 

 proportions practically within the past thirty 

 years. 



In this connection it is but just that fitting 

 recognition be extended to the late J. H. San- 

 ders, founder of The Breeder's Gazette, for 

 the splendid part he played in promoting the 

 establishment of many of the stud books now 

 so widely known. I am within the mark in 

 stating that we have never had a man so widely 

 versed in horse lore as he was in his time. I 



