Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-07
THE FAMOUS SUNOL FILLY.
Talk of a Price and Her Transfer to
Robert Bonner.

The San Francisco Chronicle saws Local
horsemen are eagerly listening to and com
mentlng upon rumor that rs going the
rounds just now about Senator Stanford
ana the sensational trotting tilly Sunoi.
The lilly has been the talk of the horse
world since she trotted mile in 2:1S at the
Bay District track, and her owner has often
been congratulated upon his system of
breeding that brought out the young queen
OF the trotting turf. Senator S,andford has
been looking to that end all these wears.
NO money has been spared, and when Nor
lame showed her wonderful work he
though he had reached the desired point in
her. That unfortunate fire at Palo Alto
cut short Norlaines career, but this wear
there comes one even greater than She
Sunol. There has perhaps been no prouder
day IN the Senator's life than the one when
Sunol eclipsed all previous records of two
year -olds, and marked down 2:18 as a rec
ord Tor other ambitious breeders to aim at.
Every turf column in the country has
had something to say of Sunol, and as a
matter of course Robert Bonner, in New
fork, heard of her. Mr.. Bonner has an
ambition to own the fastest trotters in the
world. 1t was this ambition which
prompted him to pay $4,000 for Maud S..
the highest price ever paid for mare, and
ava La U.s. tEC blSStSL amount ever
laid down for gelding. He heard of this
California phenomenon, who is even
greater than these, and he wanted her to
grace his name and stable. Yesterday it
was learned upon good authority that he
had asked Leland Stanford fora price upon
the hlly, and that the Senator had placed
her at $4,000 Further than that nothing
is known in California. Senator Stanford
Is now in the East, and his negotiations
with Mr.. Bonner have been carried on in
person. Ariel Lathrop knows nothing.
He was even surprised when told by a
Chronicle reporter just how far the negotia-
tons had gone.
Charles Marvin, who manages the trot
ting department at Palo Alto, only knows
that price has been set, and his heart is
broken to think that in all probability the
great lilly, that he loves almost as he does
his life, will go out of his hands. He saw
ner foaled and grow up to maidenhood.
and was behind her when she made her
phenomenal mile, and he is anxiously
waiting and hoping that Mr.. Bonner will
refuse to give $4,000 The probabilities
are that Mr.. Bonner will take her. He has
never allowed money to stand between
him and any horse he wanted. and Sunol
would be fit companion for Maud s.
Sunol is dark bay filly, now three years
old. She was foaled and raised at Palo
Alto: Her sire is the great Electioneer and
her dam is Waxana, second dam Waxv, a
thoroughbred mare. Sunol is the product
OF very popular breeding theory that the
thoroughbred intermingled with the trot-
ting strain produces speed. The only filly
10 approach Sunolin speed was Wildfiower.
also Palo Alto product, who trotted a
mile as two-year-old at the Bav District
track in 22l in October, 1881. If Mr. Bon
ner pays $4,000 for Sunol, she will be the
second Palo Alto product to go at that
amount, the other being the great stallion
Bell Boy, half-brother to Sunol, and his
price was the highest ever given for
stallion. The best money ever paid for a
thoroughbred was the 1000 paid by SEN
ator Hearst for the yesrliDg King Thomas.
Kentucky colt, now in training with Mr..
Hearsts stable at Sheepsbesd