Effects of Two Generations 127 



Early in the 70's Dr. Herr of Kentucky 

 made the first systematic attempt to train 

 colts as young as two and three years of age, 

 but he soon abandoned it because of adverse 

 criticism. About ten years later Leland 

 Stanford in California established a "Kinder- 

 garten school" for colts and commenced 

 training them in this school as early as nine 

 months of age. At the head of the stud, 

 Stanford placed an early trained horse known 

 as Electioneer, a son of the Green Mountain 

 Maid before mentioned. Practically all of the 

 progeny of Electioneer went through this 

 school, with the result that the Electioneer 

 family is now the principal family for early 

 speed. But the most famous part of this 

 early speed comes from the early trained sons 

 and daughters of Electioneer and Beautiful 

 Bells. Other parts of it come through some 

 of those animals with which Dr. Herr experi- 

 mented at about the time Beautiful Bells 

 was born. 



Other families of early speed have since 

 arisen but each time it was by the same 



