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to support such a chapter it would not be credited. Hence 

 the details. 



In all the literature of the period under consideration 

 it appears that the then widespread interest in the thor- 

 oughbred was largely due to the generally known record 

 of distinguished ancestors, both in America and England, 

 on the race course, and in the stud. It is, therefore, nec- 

 essary, in order to know the thoroughbred as our ante- 

 bellum forefathers knew him, to present him not alone 

 as an individual, separate and apart from others, but as 

 the representative of a line running back through many 

 years of honorable achievement. Both the subject matter 

 and the index have been prepared with special reference 

 to this point; and the accomplishments of all the prin- 

 cipal progenitors in America and England, of almost every 

 horse named in this volume, may be easily ascertained and 

 the meaning of a pedigree fully understood. Interest in 

 these pedigrees will be enhanced by the illustrations of 

 noted foundation sires, among which the most prominent 

 American families of the post-Revolutionary and later 

 periods are fairly represented. 



In the matter of pedigrees I have consulted Weath- 

 erby's English Stud Book, Joseph Osborne's (English) 

 Hand Book and Breeder's Guide; and American Stud 

 Books by Edgar, Skinner, Wallace and Bruce; also cer- 

 tificates contained in advertisements not accessible to any 

 of these authors. All the material differences found in 

 the statements of pedigrees in these publications are duly 

 noted. By using the same source of information news- 

 paper advertisements from which hundreds of ancient 

 pedigrees have been collected into stud books, I have 

 added to the list of stallions that stood in Tennessee 

 many names not mentioned in any other volume. The 

 body of the book, I think, will show the extraordinary 



