THE AMERICAN RACE HORSE.
Antiquity of American racing—First race course at Hempstead
Plain, 1665—Racing in Virginia, 1677—Conditions of early
races—Early so-called Arabian importations—The marvelous
tradition of Lindsay’s “Arabian”—English race horses first
imported about 1750—The old colonial stock as a basis—First
American turf literature—Skinner’s _American Turf Register and
Sporting Magazine_, 1829—Cadwallader R. Colden’s _Sporting
Magazine_, short-lived but valuable—The original _Spirit of
the Times—Porter’s Spirit of the Times—Wilkes’ Spirit of the
Times_, 1859—Edgar’s Stud Book—Wallace’s Stud Book—Bruce’s
Stud Book—Their history, methods and value—Summing up results,
showing that success has followed breeding to individuals and
families that could run and not to individuals and families
that could not run, whatever their blood 90-107