Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-13
CEMETERY FOR HORSES
DEAD RACERS OF THE PALo ALTO
STOCK WELL CARED FOR.
Owned by the Stanfords-Win Be Kept
Up After Famous Farm
Passes Away.

SAN FRANCISCO. November S.-The
Palo Alto stock farm near Francisco. es-
tablished in 1887 by the late Senator Lee
land Stanford. will be disbanded this year,
but the equine cemetery at the farm will
be cared for and looked after for all time
to come, according to the expressed wish
OF Mrs. Leland Stanford. The cemetery is
located on small strip of land, about a
block long and half as wide, in the center
OF the ring where the famous trotters of
the Palo Alto farms are walked after ex-
ercise and before stabling.
A number of the record breaking horses
of the farm are inferred there, and 1t is
without doubt the most curious cemetery
in the world No huge or massive gate
marks the entrance to this hallowed
ground and on entering that section of the
farm where the valuable brood mares, stall
lions and fillies are stabbed ones attention
is Immediately attracted to the very GEN.
ter of the place by a group of widespread
ing oaks that cast their silent shadows
over a Stanch memorial shaft.
On reaching the spot you are immediate
ly impressed by the little row of mounds
that rises either side of the monument;
in an instant you realize that you are walk
ing on sacred ground, and as you read the
epitaphs on the headboards you feel like
doftng your cap out of respect to the dead
animals that during their lifetime smashed
records galore ana puSheQ CalfOrnla TO the
front as a stock-raising state. To the EN-
ployes about the farm this graveyard is
sacred and when one of the attendants
comes to tell you about the wonderful I'M
recorded deeds of the horses he scarcely
speaks above whisper for fear of disturb
Ing the dead in their final sleep.
Founded in 1888.
The founding of the cemetery came about
in 1888, when several horses of the farm
air
turf writer Among the number was the
Inflated champion yearling filly Norlaine,
2.31h, by Norval, 2.14a4, son of Electioneer
dam the great Elaine. 2.20. who held the
worlds record a three and four-year
old, she being a half sister of Electioneer
AS Norlaine was a champion and much
thought of at Palo Alto. the most beauti-
ful spot on the farm was selected for her
burial place AS time rolled on her resting
plot created for all time the memorial bury
ing ground for the famous horses that die
at Palo Alto farm.
one by one new graves appeared, and
the attention of Mrs. Stanford was attract
ed by the mounds, and on inquiry she
learned that 1t was the burial place of
horses that had made Palo Alto great AT
that time there was nothing to show what
horses were buried there, and feeling this.
Mrs. Stanford remarked that such noted
horses should have tablets erected over
their graves showing their names dates of
birth, death and records, and Immediately
issued such instructions. The interest taken
in this led her to have a monument erected
in memory of the great Electioneer, 125. the
son of Rysdyks Hambletonian, 10, and
Green Mountain Maid.
Electioneer.
Electioneer, though dead since 1890, still
has to his credit the largest number of
80 trotters accredited to any sire. At
one time his sons and daughters held all
the worlds records. For yearlings, Bell
Bird, 2.26A; 2-year-olds, Arion, 2.1o&; 81
year-olds. Sunol, 2.101a; 4-year-olds, Sunol,
2.101a. Sunol also held the worlds e .6S1a),
and stallion record; Palo Alto, 2.USa4, an
honor never held by any sire before and,
in all probability, never again to be held
by another. These records were all made
with high-wheel sulkies.
Today the family of Eiectioneer holds the
worlds records: For yearIings- Adbell l.
2.23; for two-year-olds, Arion. 219A; for
three-year-olds, Fantasy, 20SA; the gelding
trotting record, The Abbot 2.03A; and with
such great performers by his sons and
grandsons as Azote, 2.04a.; Binger, Q 0sK;
Fantasy, 2.06; Dione, 2O7; Borama. 20S;
Nico. 2.0SA; The Monk, 2OSA Bouncer
200; Jasper Ayers, 200; Necretta, 2.091a:
besides many others equally fast The
name of Electioneer will live long in the his
tory of the trotting turf as the greatest
progenitor OF the century just past.
Beautiful Bells.
Twelve graves have been laid out in this
old cemetery. The first is reserved for the
grand old mare Beautiful Bells the great
est of brood mares, who is now twenty
years old. but a hale and hearty old lady
For her last colt the stable has a standing
offer of $4,000. In No. 2 lies Sontag Mo-
hawk, dam of Sallie Britton worlds cham
pion four-year-old in 1884; No 3, Pa1o Alto,
2.GsA; No. ), Dame Winnie mother of Palo
Alto; No. 6, vacant, reserved for Elaine,
half-sister of Electioneer; No. T. Mayf1ower
2.30h2; No. 8, vacant; No. o. Josie, dam of
Azote, worlds champion gelding; No. 10,
Norlaine, 1, 2.31h. Graves Nos. II and II
are still vacant, awaiting the coming of the
dams of Arion and Sunol, Manette and
WaXana.
Each year after the winter frosts are over
tender flowers and dollhouse shrubs are
planted on the graves and throughout the
season the graves are kept fresher and
greener than many Of the resting places of
human beings. There is no neglect of these
graves of the wel-belOyed