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Daily Racing Form Buys Patterson Turf Library More Than Eight Hundred Works On Thoroughbred in Collection NEW YORK, N. Y., June 24. Triangle Publications, Inc., publishers of Daily Racing Form, today completed the purchase of the entire turf library of W. P. Patterson of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. This library, which represents 40 years labor by its collector, is considered one of the most comprehensive collections of works pertaining to the thoroughbred in existence. Among the 800 volumes, all in perfect condition, are complete sets of all the stud books of all countries issuing them and supplementing them are reference files personally compiled by Patterson through which the record of every horse since Matchem, Herod and Eclipse can be immediately traced and reviewed. These indexes have been kept up to date through the years by a veteran who has served in numerous capacities on the turf, but whose chief work for almost half a century has been the expansion of his remarkable library. While the stud books and registers of every racing country form the nucleus of the Patterson collection, other highly prized items are complete sets of Daily Racing Form, all bound in leather, from 1901 to 1904; The Blood-Horse, from February 1917 to January 1, 1944; The American Racing Manual, 1908-1944; Horses in Continued on Page Three Daily Racing Form Buys Patterson Turf Library More Than Eight Hundred Works On Thoroughbred in Collection Continued from Page One Training by Harry Buck, 1900-1908 and 1928 to 1942; The British Bloodstock Breeders Review, 1912-1944, and The Thoroughbred Mares Record, 1850-1928. Catalogs of Famous Sales With these, and many other sets, are catalogs of the breeding stock and yearling sales arid dispersals of the Rancocas Farm of Pierre Lorillard, Rancho Del Paso of James B. Haggin, W. C. Whitney, H. P. Whitney, August Belmont, James Cox Brady and many others. So numerous are the books in the Patterson library meriting special mention that a complete list can not be given, but there are two works that must be referred to regardless of space restrictions. These are "The Anatomy of the Horse," consisting of 17 illustrations with a description of each subject done from nature by George Stubbs in 1778 and which came from the library of Lord Sussex, and a collection of steel engravings, with a five-generation pedigree of each subject, made by Clarence Bailey of Newmarket and dated 1908. Special Department for Library A special department will be constructed by Triangle Publications, Inc., in its New York offices at 343 West 26th Street to house and protect the Patterson collection, which will be added to Daily Racing Forms already extensive library. The combined collection will be steadily enlarged by purchases of every worthwhile work relating to racing and the thoroughbred that may be published. Kenneth Friede, publisher of Triangle Publications, Inc., has commissioned Nelson Dunstan to make a thorough survey of the field of turf literature and whenever possible acquire such books as may enhance the value of this already valuable library. In the near future it is planned to open the Daily Racing Form library by invitation and for reference purposes to racing officials, commissioners, breeders and others directly interested in thoroughbred research. Patterson has been engaged to continue the exhaustive records which he originated and school assistants in this exacting task.
