Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-12
A VALUABLE WORK.
HOW WALLACE GIVES ADDRESSES, ILLUS
TRATED.

We have "A number of times called at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Wallace in
recording in the Trotting Register pedi-
grees not furnished and paid for by
breeders or owners, carefully conceals
the addresses of all persons connected
with such horses, although pretending
to give the same. This class of pedi-
grees of course includes most of the not
ed horses of the past as well as many
trotters of the present day. TO illustrate
the character of the work we will give. as
specimen taken at random. what is re-
corded of the IIighlanders in vol. 2.
pages 240, 24l, giving all that part of
each pedigree that refers to breeders and
owners and their places of residence.
First is Brown Highlander GIunt's), Il
horse of much Importance He is given
as "bred by Mr.. Watson, Bucks county,
Pa; sold to Peter 5. Schenck of y. j.,
and by him in the spring of 1881 to G..
Drummond Hunt, Lexington, Ky.
Next comes Highlander (Parks).
"Bred by James Parks, Scott Co., Ky;
owned by Rice IL. Parks, same county"
Followed by Highlander (Scott's)
''dam chestnut mare bred by Col. Mead
of Va. Bred by Robert Scott. Clark Co.,
Ky. Passed through the hands of Will
lam Coons and Jesse Vim, Thomas L..
and Ed. Coons. and then back to Mr..
Scott. his brother
Highlander (WillamsD; Bred by
Gen. John :. Williams. Montgomery Co...
Ky; now owned at Greencastle. Ind"
Highlander (Smiths) Bred by f. Il.
Smith, who kept him in Fayette Co.., Ky,
till 1854; sold to Butler Co.. Ohio"
Highlander pledges, etc. BRED by
Mr.. Hedges, Bourbon Co., Ky"
Highlander (Black). Bred by Jos.
l.. Downing, Fayette Co., Ky"
Highlander Darnaby's). Bred by G.
d. Hunt, Fayette Co., Ky, sold to Ed.
Shipp; passed through the hands of John
Darnaby and Elisha j. Smith to his pres
ent owners in Mercer Co., Ky"
Here are eight consecutive pedigrees.
giving the names of twenty different
breeders and owners. OF these twenty.
the address of one is given and that of
nineteen is suppressed.
1t was Talleyrand, or some other great
master of diplomacy, who said that
language was given to man for
thepurpose of concealing his thoughts.
Protiting by this suggestion, Mr..
Wallace seems to have proceeded up
on the idea that the true object of a horse
register is to conceal information. The
method is unique and seems to be pecu-
liar to John ii. Wallace. No other au-
thor, so far as we have examined. has
offered to the public a stud book purport-
ing to give information which. in fact.
was studiously withheld. Mr.. Sanders,
in the Breeders Trotting STUD Book. has
apparently given the fullest information
at his command; Mr.. Thompson, in his
very creditable work on Noted Maine
Horses, has done the same; and so with
the other works on breeding, we think.
without exception. Wallace alone eats
his cake and has it too''-sells his infor-
nation to the public and keeps it to him
self at the same time.
Of course this kind of work is done for
an object. Without this furtve and
track-covering method, Wallace would
not have been able for series of years
to slip in his bogus pedigrees by scores
if not by hundreds, without detection
and effective exposure. With it he has
been enabled to do this as well aS to dis
pose of IA large number of his pastc-board
dollars apiece to confiding public, who
have only lately begun to discover the
swindle.