Excerpt from 2: 30: Book and Table of Sires, Containing All Trotters With Records of 2: 30 or Better, All Sires of 2: 30 Performers and Their Performers, World's Records, Big Money-Winners, Winning Sires, Champion Trotters and Pacers, Up to the Close of 1894

A work of this character requires but little introduction. Each page tells its own story, as it is a history of the' best performances made by trotters and pacers to harness from the earliest time up to the close of 1894. In it will be found all of the trotters, all of the 2 30 pacers and all stallions that have sired performers, together with their performers under them. In the list of trotters and pacers the color, age, sex, sire and dam, as well as sire of dam is given where known. In placing this work before the public my aim has been to con dense matters so that the price of the book would not be exorbitant. Of late years many have avoided a publication of this character from the fact that the composition bill was so high and because there is such a limited field, as is the case with all class publications. Should this book. However, meet with the approval of the public, it will be followed at the close of 1895 with one that will be much more complete and also contain more statistical matter.

That there are errors in this Book is not denied. Absolute correctness is impossible in a work of this magnitude. Those who have handled statistical matter know that the trip from-the copy hook to the press is a very hazardous one, and that even the most careful proof reading will not detect all errors. Individual knowledge of horses will bring such faults to light and information of their existence will be thankfully received. By referring to the book it will also be found that there are a great many horses whose ages are not given, from the fact that they are not registered. Many of their pedigrees are also incomplete. Information on either of these points will be very acceptable. In other words, I want the assistance 'of every one on the turf papers, and every one who has occasion to consult these pages. To help in mak ing this book more complete than it is at present. Turf writers, of all others, have occasion to refer to such a work frequently, and the more accurate it is the more acceptable it will be to them.

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