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3, 1890, and I am informed that his skeleton has been articulated 

 and mounted for the museum of the Stanford University. The 

 following table gives the sons of Electioneer that up to the close 

 of 1896 had ten or more standard performers to their credit: 



LEADING SONS OF ELECTIONEER. 



* Died at 5 years old. 



In considering this table it is necessary to remember that the 

 Electioneer family dates from 1878, and that no family of any- 

 thing approaching so late a date makes a showing that will bear 

 comparison with this. In considering the rank of families 

 this question of age is always vital. Electioneer^ first crop of 

 foals at Palo Alto 1878 numbered seven, and of these two 

 are represented above, while another was the famous gelding 

 Ered Crocker. The next numbered but twenty-one, and of 

 these Eros, Elector, and Anteeo are in the table, and ten are 

 in the 2:20 list. His third and fourth crops (1880 and 1881) 

 numbered sixteen and twenty-three respectively, and the forty of 

 1882 was the greatest number he ever got in one year. I am in- 

 formed that in all Electioneer got less than four hundred foals at 

 Palo Alto; and that, since the first one saw light in 1878 this 

 family should in eighteen years make the showing it has with 

 nearly fifty per cent, of its members in the 2:30 list, and four hun- 



