Tiiis 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.