Excerpt from American Stallion Register, Vol. 1: Including All Stallions Prominent in the Breeding of the American Roadster, Trotter and Pacer, From the Earliest Records to 1902

N compiling the first volume of The Morgan Horse and Register, we Obtained a large amount of information showing that a very large propor tion of the pedigrees of the more noted progenitors of the foundation stock of the American trotter and pacer, as recorded in Wallace's American Trotting Register, which was the usual accepted authority, were largely erroneous. That the pedigrees Of others, as Copperbottom, Pilot, St. Lawrence and indeed 'the whole contingent of Canadian Sires from which a very large number of the best American road horses, including many Of the fastest trotters and pacers, are in part descended, were not given at all. To correct this we began as early as 1884 to collect accurate information of this class Of Sires, with the intention at first of publishing it in an appendix to the Morgan Register, but it rapidly became too voluminous for such place, and before long it became evident that it would have to be published in a work by itself.

To make the work more complete we have added pedigrees of all Sires of 2 30 trotters and 2 z 5 pacers to the year I903 have included also some Of the more noted English thoroughbred Sires, taken from the General Stud Book of England and a large number of thoroughbred and other horses from advertisements in files of American newspapers, and from other Sources.

The rating Of Morgan blood for each stallion, SO far as known, is given immediately after the name of the animal.

The present volume includes the first three letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, whilst in the Introduction has been added quite a number of valuable articles relating to the Horse, which have mostly been copied from files of different horse papers examined in the public libraries at Washington, D. C. These too, are arranged in order for easy reference, and we think will be found instructive and valuable by all interested in the horse, and his develop ment.

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