OBSERVATIONS 



ONIMPORTED STALLIONS 



In the first Appendix I have given, to the best of my ability, 

 a correct list of the thoroughbred horses imported into the 

 United States, from the earliest dates to the present day. To do 

 this, I have searched every authority which I have been able to 

 command, including Pick's, Johnson's, Weatherby's English 

 Stud Books, White's History of the British Turf, Skinner's and 

 Edgar's American Stud Books, Skinner's American Farmer, 

 Skinner's and Porter's Turf Register, the Spirit of the Times, 

 Colden's Sporting Magazine, Mason's Farrier, and the various 

 English works published under the nom deplume of Stonehenge. 



I do not dare to pretend that this list is complete or perfect ; 

 for I have no doubt that in early times, many horses, really 

 thoroughbred, were imported, which have escaped the most dili- 

 gent inquiry and research ; while many others, doubtless, with 

 no pretension to the title of thoroughbred, have been made to 

 pass muster as such, on the bare assertion of their importers, not 

 backed by the evidence of any English authority, proving that 

 any such horses ever existed. 



In like manner, in recent years, I fear — I may say, I have no 

 doubt — that many importations of thoroughbred stock have 

 escaped me ; particularly since the discontinuance of Porter's 

 Sporting Magazine ; from which period there has been no regu- 

 larly kept record of imported animals, beyond such as may be 

 found in the columns of the weekly or daily papers, to wade 



