Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-11-26
PALO ALTO.

senator Ntanford's Famous Cal ifornia Es
tabiish cnt-Suiuc of the Celebrated
Horses Owned by tho Niilionaire-Su-
noIs Last Achievemcnt-The Kupning
Horses.
In the trotting department Of the Palo
Alto catalogue of 1890, there are 5l2 stall
lions and brood mares entered and number
cd. Under each marc is her produce which
have been bred at Palo Alto. These are
not numbered. As there are five or six I'M
sold under each brood on tho
average, the total number of trottny
horses at Palo Alto must be about
1000. These horses are the property
of Leland Stanford, United States senator
from California. AS there are in addition
to the trotters several hundred thorough
breds, there can be no doubt that the pro-
prietor of Palo Alto owns more horses than
any other man in the world. This gives an
immense number from which to select, but
even then had he any otner horse that has
lived save Electioneer he could not have
been to-day the breeder of the fastest year
ling, the fastest two-yenr old, the fastest
| three-year old the fastest fouryear Old, the
fastest hve-year-o.d AMI the fastest trOtter
III the world. That is where no now stands
and presume the record gives him more
council nails of the nation. Since the Flee
tioneer6 first began trotting, the family has
furnished more colt champions than all
other trottmg families combined. 1t has
really been contest of one man, one horse
and one State against all breeders, all horses
and tine entire country. The first colt trot-
ter by EleciiOneer to claim distinction az n
| record breaker was Fred Croker, which in
| 1880 trotted to a ecord Of 2:25t when two
years Old. The best previous record for the
age was 2:3l and was made by the mare
$3.50 a daughter Of GeorIc Wilkes. 5o-So,
| by the way, afterwald trotted o record
of "a l. and is now tae dam of the fast
Maine trotter Also, 2:3Ul. This record
OF Fred Croker's, at the tLis it was made,
seems SO entirely impossible, that many
breeders and horsemsn this side of the
mountains refused to believe in its anthem
ITCHY, and treated Ii as u production OF the
wild Western desire TO excel a. all hazards.
| Wonderful Us was this record, the following
year saw an even greater reduction of the
two ear-old record, the tihy Wldlower
trottng in 2:2l The same year saw Kinda
Rose rodGce the yearng record from 2lit
to 2:3G4. The two-y ear-od record OF Wild
flowers stood for seven years, and the first
colt to change it was the E,ectioneer filly
Sunol. which trotteG in 2:1S. The yearl-
ing record of linda Rose was not battered
until 1873 six years after 1t was made An
Eastern bred colt first reduced it, and then
it went back to Palo Alto, Noraine, by
Norval, son of Electionaer trottins in
23l5. In the meantime linda Rose, the
one time yearling champion, he'd assumed
! the tEree-ycar Old cham piousnip with n
record Of 2:l9t and had been displaced
by her full brother, Boil Boy, which trottel
one quarter second faster; Mauzanta had
taken in the four year-od champonsh?
with record OF PIG In 1890, sumo! then
the most sensational horse in the country,
owing to her record OF 2;1S as q two year
old, reduced the three year-od record from
2:l9t to 2:lOt. and Paio Alto, stallion.
trotte1 in 2l24. The year 1890 seemed 10
oe rather an of year for Palo Alto. Mar
vim came East with a t,t.e OF horses ami
iil-uck betel them. First a very promis-
ing one died. Then full sister to Pao
Alto with which Marvin bad hoped to make
some world $ records at long distances-two
three, four and five miles, got injured so
that retirement was necessary. Palo Alto
got and though he won everything he
started for save one race with the trotter
JACK. he failed TO beat his record Sunoi
also disappointed her friends failing to
change her ma K, though she quite equtiiet
it, thereby placing the four y9arold record
away beyond the best previous mark. But
the resent year has seen achievements by
the Palo Alto trotters away beyond the
greatest records OF previous years. In the
first place, up to Date, no less than - Of
the get of Electioneer have entered The 2:3 }
list. His 2:2J list has been increased by at
least seven. His daughter, SunO ha, at
last succeeded in Wrestling the champion
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