A fairly long and complex book of this sort, with many figures and frequent citations and cross-references within the text, is difficult to proof-read with completeness and accuracy. For this reason, and whatever other excuses I might muster, I have discovered 17 relatively minor errors in the book. I have called them "Errata," in the way that academics do when errors are found in large publications. I do that with a little smile, because I have always thought using Latin might have started as someone's way of making goofs appear to be a little less embarrassing. When a teasing friend, a Michigan State University graduate, asked me about the word, I told him it was a University of Michigan fancy term for screwing up!
Your copy of the book may have a list of Errata at the bottom of p. 256. Before I released any copies, I put that list on a roll of post notes so I could paste it into every copy that passed through my hands. Since then I have found only three more small errors. I put them at the end of the list here, even though the page numbers are not consecutive. As I continue to look for errors, I will add any that I find later to the end of this list on my web site. That will make it easy to locate the new additions.
Nearly all errors are simple typos, mainly of figure or page citations. One involves a line accidentally dropped in a figure legend, one the color and dam of a foal, and one a wrong date for a book. None creates a seriously misleading or confusing fact in the text of the book.
I hope readers will inform me of any apparent errors I have missed, or confusion on any issue at all.
©2001 R.D. Alexander