Excerpt from American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, Vol. 3: September, 1831 August, 1832
At no period, perhaps, since the horse was subjected to our do minion and use, has the pure blooded strain more rapidly risen in value, from the disesteem into which it had fallen, than it has, in this country, within the last two years; we might, without vanity, say since the commencement of the American Turf Register, for the association of the two facts is sufficiently obvious to be regarded, in some mea sure, as cause and effect.
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