EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



The Publisher of the following work, with a view 

 to an extension of its value, and to bestow on posterity 

 a list of some of our most celebrated blood horses and 

 mares, as well as those that have been imported, has 

 added, with all the care the object so well merits, an 

 American Stud Book, that such as may wish to breed 

 from a particular stock, may trace the pedigree, in a 

 way more satisfactory than vague report. The pub- 

 lisher thankfully acknowledges, that he is much in- 

 debted for information derived from the "American 

 Farmer^'' and '''•American Turf Register, ^^ edited by 

 J. S. Skinner, Esq. of Baltimore, to which works he 

 confidently refers such of his readers as may wish fur- 

 ther information as to the performance of many of the 

 stud herein noticed, as well as for other particulars, 

 perhaps too numerous for insertion in a small volume. 



The pubUsher will not deny, that errors may una- 

 voidably occur in a work of this sort; but he offers it 

 with a confidence, nevertheless, that it contains a 

 greater number of pedigrees of blooded horses, than 

 has been ever before published in our country ; and 

 that it will be considered, at least, as meriting the con- 

 sideration which should attach to a work, possibly 

 proving an introduction to a complete Stud Book. 



