This Book is Dedicated to 

 THE AMERICAN TROTTER 



A type of horse that contributed materially to the pleasure, 

 health and wealth of the inhabitants of North America during 

 the last half of the nineteenth century. On the road, to harness 

 and on the farm the trotter stands as the highest type of equine 

 intelligence and equine usefulness, being able to do all kinds of 

 work from racing to pulling a plough, and it is the sincere hope 

 of the writer of this note that the sentiment created by the record- 

 breaking performances of Flora Temple, Dexter, Goldsmith 

 Maid and their successors to championship honors, as well as 

 their contemporaries, will continue throughout this century and 

 for all time place the purely American sport of harness racing on 

 so high a plane that the trotter shall never become a matter-of- 

 fact medium for speculation. 



