PREFACE. 



In setting forth to the public this Catalogue of the Scarsdale 

 Stud, it may be well first to state the main object attempted to be 

 produced, viz. : — to improve the breed of horses for general use. 

 To accomplish this end the ihorough-'bred, race Twrse is the first and 

 most important ingredient — provided he has size, strength, color, 

 endurance, proper formation and action. "We are indebted to the 

 racing community for many of these qualifications, without which 

 the horse of the present day would not be what he is. The 

 young thorough-hreds are exercised and partially trained for 

 racing purposes on the track at Scarsdale, twelve miles from my 

 residence at Fordham. I am a hreeder and never have been a 

 sporting turfman. Should I however succeed in raising thorough- 

 breds of promise,! will let them ran in the stakes for which they now 

 are, or may hereafter, be entered, or sell their running qualities to 

 sporting turfmen. It is a common saying that " iDinaers run in all 

 s^/t^es,"but it will be my endeavor to raise a stock of thorough-bred 

 horses of such size, color and form as to be of great value in the 

 stud should they fail to excel upon the turf. 



The second ingredient of which I am possessed is the trotting 

 horse of America. This is a combination of several breeds with 

 strong infusions of the thorough-bred, heretofore reared by accident 

 or hajihazard, but, for the last few years, many breeders have 

 given that attention to the subject which its importance deserves, 

 and for this ingredient the community is indebted to the trotting 

 turfmen. I am also exercising, on my private trotting track, for 

 the same object as the racers, the young trotters I have bred. 



To breed horses, or any animals, properly, one must take 

 advantage of all the best strains of blood he can obtain and not 

 limit himself to what be may then possess. I have been a 

 breeder of animals all my life, but during the jjast five years have 

 limited myself to the breeding of horses, to which subject I have 

 applied much capital. 



