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The first step towards an American Stud B®ok or collecting an 

 account of our blood horses, is to ascertain the number of stal- 

 lions imported from England, with their pedigrees annexed, be- 

 cause it is to the importation of horses and mares from that king, 

 dom, that we are indebted not only for the foundation of our stock 

 of Turf Horses, but for their present value. There is not a pedigree 

 of a single blood horse or mare in this country, but what goes in 

 every cross directly or remotely back to English stock. 



