Identifier: trainingtrotting00marv (find matches)
Title: Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Marvin, Charles Macleod, Leslie E
Subjects: Horses Horse racing
Publisher: Franklin, Pa. : Marvin Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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AMPAIGi^ERS IN LONG RACES ONLY ONE DEFEAT AND EIGHT VICTORIES NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH BY FIRE—THE BRILLIANT CAMPAIGN OF 1889 INVINCIBLE AND UNBEATEN RECORD, 2:12^. The second of our great four-year-olds in the 1886campai^n was the now famous Palo Alto, Avhoserecord of 2:12^ was one of the sensations of lastseason. Palo Alto is further noted as being the only,horse out of a strictly thoroughbred mare that hasever beaten 2:20 ; and his performance demonstratesthat it is quite possible to unite the blood of a positiveand potent trotting sire with that of a good repre-sentative of the running race-horse, and get the actionof the trotter combined with the finish and quahty ofthe thoroughbred. Palo Alto was foaled February 15, 1882, and wasgot by Electioneer out of the thoroughbred mareDame Winnie (the only thoroughbred mare that everproduced three trotters to l)eat 2:30, and one to beat2:20), by Planet, next dam by imported Glencoe, andshe out of a daughter of imported Margrave, etc. We
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o ^ Q o ^ 155 began working the Dame Winnie colt as the otherswere worked, in his yearling form, and he trotted fromthe start. At two years old he came directly undermy charge, and his impro\Tement was marvellous.Excepting Sunol we never had a two-year-old sopromising as Palo Alto, and for those who do notbelieve that those that trot young train as a rule, itwill be in order to note that these two most precociousyoungsters have the fastest records to the credit ofElectioneer. He could trot a quarter in 0:33 as a two-3^ear-old, and he showed us at that age a full mile in2;23;. After that he was named Palo Alto, for thenGoverner Stanford thought him worthy to bear thename of the farm.- He was always a favorite withthe Governor, owing to his high form and his breed-ing, but he would not confer the name Palo Alto uponhim until he showed himself worthy of it. His two-year-old trial met the requirement. In his three-year-old form Palo Alto was still agreat colt, but not as good, relatively,

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