PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND ILLUS- 

 TRATED EDITION. 



A little over eight years have elapsed since this volume 

 was first given to the public, and so favorable has been 

 the reception accorded it that edition after edition has 

 been called for, and many thousand copies have been 

 printed and sold, both in this country and in Europe, 

 it having been translated and republished in Germany 

 under the especial supervision and patronage of Herman 

 Von Nathusius. From time to time since the first 

 edition was published many minor changes have been 

 made in the text and a considerable amount of new mat- 

 ter has been furnished as an appendix. But the demand 

 for the work has continued so active that I have thought 

 it but justice to the public as well as to myself that I 

 should now thoroughly revise the work and incorporate 

 therein such additional matter as the experience of the 

 past eight years has suggested, to bring it more fully up 

 to the requirements of the present day. Accordingly 

 the entire work has been carefully gone over, some por- 

 tions relating to matters that were in controversy at the 

 time the work was written have been eliminated and 

 much new matter, especially in relation to the various 

 breeds, has been added. The original chapter concern- 

 ing the breeding of trotting horses treated at consider- 

 able length of what was then a matter of earnest contro- 

 versy; and the correctness of the principles of breeding 

 therein laid down has been so thoroughly demonstrated 



