18 HAKDBOOK OF THE TURF. 



against Henry, run over the Union Course, Long Island, N. Y., 

 May 27, 182:1, for -^20,000 a side. The first heat (four mile 

 race) was won by Henry in 7:37| ; the second and third heats 

 were won by Eclipse in 7:49 and 8:24 respectively. Henry 

 carried 108 pounds. Eclipse 126 pounds. The measurements 

 of Eclipse w^ere : Head 23| inches; neck 25 in.; from point 

 of shoulder to point of buttocks 65| in.; girth 74 in.; around 

 the arm 21^ in.; below the knee 7| in.; around the tibia 18| 

 in.: the hock 16f in.; from hip to point of hock 37.^ in.; same 

 around the flank as the girth 74 in.; same height at hip as at 

 the withers 61 in. He died in Shelby County, Ky., August, 

 1847, in the 34th year of his age. 



American Newmarket. Monmouth, N. J., has been 

 called the American Newmarket. 



American Phenomenon. An American bred horse 

 was so called, although his name was Tom Thumb. After 

 defeating all comers at home he was taken to England, and it 

 is recorded that on February 2, 1829, on Sudbury Common, he 

 trotted one hundred miles in ten hours and seven minutes. 

 This performance was to a match-cart, or gig, built at Albany, 

 N. Y., by a Mr. Gould, and was probably the first sulky built 

 in this country. It weighed 160 pounds, and was regarded 

 too frail for safety. 



American Stud Book, (Bruce's). The first volume of 

 the American Stud Book, edited by Mr. Sanders D. Bruce, 

 New York, was published in 1873, and the second the same 

 year; Yol. Ill in 1878; Yol. lY in 1884; Yol. Y in 1888; 

 Yol. YI in 1894. "I have not attempted," says Mr. Bruce, 

 "to fix any definite standard of what constitutes a thorough- 

 bred. It is the custom to call those thoroughbred having five 

 uncontaminated crosses to a thoroughbred; but none are, 

 strictly speaking, thoroughbred that do not trace, without con- 

 taminating blood, to Oriental origin. Many animals are reg- 

 istered in the sixth volume which connot be traced the requi- 

 site number of (five) crosses, but public form and producing 

 excellence justifies their registration." The pedigrees of the 

 animals are arranged alphabetically, the produce of mares are 

 indexed, and there is also an index to sires, the mares appear- 

 ing under their sires. More than thirty thousand animals, 

 young and old, are recorded. 



American Trotting Association. The American 

 Trotting Association was organized at Detroit, Mich., March 2, 

 1887, and duly incorporated according to the laws of that 

 State, March 9, 1887, its object being "to improve the breed 



