The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-03
the KING Of STATIONS.
Palo Alto, Who Died Recently at the
Famous Farm Of That
Name.
Tho Pride OF His Owners Heart
Was This Prince of
Horses.
h Hold the Record OF His Glass and Only
Made It During Last Sea-

I Ih0re died on fRlO AlSo StucA ~ 49,
month Palo Alto, 2:0sA, son OF Elsctloneer
a25 ana thoroughbred Dame Winnie, BY
Planet a. game . horse ~ ever Rraceu .
race course and champion Of trottinR stall
ions says the Breeder and Sportsman. The
rreat bay horse had suffered for eome little
time with 1 cold, but the Immediate cause
OF his death was inflammation OF tho bowels
following pneumonia, with which he was
stricken six days previously. The DOCTOR
did Ill in his power to save the noble AMI
NAL, but he passed away a. stated.
Palo Alto was the pride Of Senator stan
ford's heart, and TO say that he valued the
horse above Ill others Al his great establish
nnentin Santa Clara county is to put it mildly.
II short, in hia old nastss's eyes Pslo Alto
Va faultisss, and beyond price. Foaled on
the 18th Of February, 1857, she morse was
called The Dame Winnie colt antll the sum
mer Of 1885, when on account OF MS feso'
lutte way Of going and the speed demon
stratea. he was considered worthy OK the
name he has since borne to victory in many
! hard-fouaht battle Of the turf. Rsporss
from Palo Alto farm previous to the illness
Of tho king were TO the effect that never had
he appeared in such good shape At shat
season Of the year. Only the day before he
was stricken down he trotted a quarter IN
O;321SS, Palo Alto was noted a. a horse with
thu best Of dispositions, was possessed OF
wonderful gamsnsss, had q pure, friction
less trotting gait, and his behavior IN a
trottinr race was always something to be
remembered and admired.
The frst race in which this king of stall
lions engaged was at Kalamazoo. Mlch.. on
Che Goth of June, 1886, he being at hat time
a four-ysar-old. He won the event. beating
q field OF hvs, In 2:32119a. 1884, 2:5S. and re-
tired u the end OF the season with eight
victories 70 his credit and bnt one defeat
where he fnishsd second to Wilton At De-
troit, forcing thas horse out in 2:19a. 2:l9A,
800. Palo Altos four year-old record was
2;2O1s6, In 1887 and 1888 he did not start.
Since that time his career on the turf has
been wonderfully successful-eapseial!y 90
whom it is considered how lame he has been
most Of the time.
Pate Alto trottsd nfty-four heats in $50
or bettsr. HI won In 1886 eight out of nine
races: in 1889 he won five races, and WAS not
defeated that season; in 1890 be won four
raoas and was beaten once-by Jack, 2:l24
upon whom he afterward was IevenRed,
t~rottinp at that time tho fastest mile ever
made in a race-2:1s. In short Palo Alto
was engaged In nineteen races, OF which
number Ne came of victorious in seven
Teen. Last season he did most OF his trot-
ting on the new kite-shaped track at Stock
ton, and went miles against Father lime as
follows: 2:l2ssl. 2:11A, 2:lo. 2:o91hs, 2;ioA,
and 2:Oss1 the last mark standing to-day as
the record for trotting stations.
The pedigree of the dead monarch of the
trottinx turf was as follows: By Election
Ger l25 (sirs of 1902 in the 2:D list, first
dam Dame Winnie (dam Of Big Jim. 2:23113a;
4, a - n JSu.-.1t 1.ROi[. Dale Az p.l2S/. |
Paols, 2:3O); second dam Liz Aartis. by
imp. Glencoe; third dam Fanny G.. grand
dam of Alma Matsr); fourth dam Lancess,
by Lance; fifth dam Aurora, by Aratus; sixth
dam Paragon, by imp. Buzzsrd; seventh dam
Indiana, bv Columbus, eighth dam Jane
Hunt, By Hampton's Par.gon' ninth dam,
Moll, by imp. Figure: tenth dam, Miss
Slamsrkin, by imp. Wildair; eleventh dam,
imp. Cub mare. by Cub lone of the most
wonderful producers KNOWN, and 40 on to
twentieth dam, Layton Barb mare. Palo
Alto WAS a racy-looking horse, sixteen
hands in height, and weighed about !, 15O
pounds in condition. He was not only the
fastest ~trotting stallion in the world, but
by far the speediest trotter from a thor
oughbred mare. The horse was admitted
to be (even by the opponents of Senator
Stsnford's Observation-Disclosures the
ory) to be az game as the gamest and IN
usually level-headed and consistent at the
diagonal gait as we'll.
Palo Alto was mated with the choicest
brood mares at his famous home, and ali of
his yearlines are phenomenally fast. 1t is
a question whether we shall ever look upon
his like again. and we deeply sympathize
with his owner in the loss of this G! eat
horse. Every horseman will hear of his
death with feelings of regret. The breed
ing interests of this coast have lost what
promised to be a sire of great gameness and
extreme speed.