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Manifestly, when a breeder files a pedigree with the request 
that it be published in the association record, the secretary is 
in a position to know whether the sire and dam mentioned are 
really owned by the breeder at the time mentioned, and to this 
extent the association can vouch for the accuracy of the pedigree; 
but nobody but the breeder can testify that a particular individual 
is the one covered by that pedigree. Here is where the honor of 
the breeder is involved, and it is a great tribute to modern busi- 
ness methods when we can truthfully say that it is rare indeed 
for a breeder to falsify a breeding record or to substitute an 
inferior animal for the one mentioned in the pedigree.1 Some 
errors creep in through carelessness and inaccurate methods of 
record keeping, no doubt, but these are being reduced rapidly, 
and no class of men rank higher than breeders, whether judged 
by standards of accuracy or those of business honor. 
The following specimens will illustrate about what is covered 
in the ordinary registered pedigree. _ 
The first animal ever recorded was the running mare, A-la- 
Grecque, the first listed in the General Studbook, published 
1808, the record running as follows: 
Bred by Mr. Platt in 1763, got by Regulus — her dam by Allworthy — 
granddam by the Bolton Starling — great-granddam, Daisy Maid, by Bloody 
Buttocks — great-great-granddam, Bay Brocklesby by Old Pointer — great- 
great-great-granddam, Brocklesby, by Greyhound, out of Brocklesby Betty. 
Year Produce 
1772. ch. c. Pontac by Marske ‘) 
1773 f. by ditto (dam of Tencer) | 
1774 ch. c. by Chatsworth ‘ Sir L. Dundas 
1775 f. by ditto : 
1777. ch. c. Arske by ditto 
1780 b. c. Balloon by Telemachus z 
1781 b. f. Emma by ditto (dam of Applegarth) | .. 
1783 b. f. Maria by ditto (dam of Marianne) me Danes 
1784 ch. c. Templar by Magnet 
1 There are those who insist that no business men can be trusted, but the 
business of the breeder can be carried on in no other way than upon honor, 
and all associations exclude from their privileges any man who has defrauded 
in pedigrees. 
