CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. The Corner Stone of Breeding . i 



II. General Grant as a Lover of Horses 7 



III. Robert Bonner on Shoeing . . 14 



IV. William H. Vanderbilt Sells 



Maud S 26 



V. The Struggle to Hold the Throne 39 



VI. Jay-Eye-See and Some Match Races 44 



VII. Edwin Thorne and Mambrino Chief 52 



VIII. Charles Backman and Stony Ford 64 



IX. Leland Stanford and Palo Alto . 79 



X. WooDBURN Farm — Alexander Brod- 



HEAD ...... 94 



XI. The Transylvania — Corning — 



Havemeyer . . . .113 



XII. C. J. Hamlin and Village Farm . 118 



XIII. Hamlin and Speed Development . 126 



XIV. Henry C. McDowell and Ashland 148 

 XV. Double Harness Rivalry . . 161 



XVI. Horse Shows and their Contro- 

 versies . . . . .174 



XVII. R. S. Veech and Indian Hill . 183 

 XVIII. E. H. Harriman and Other 



Breeders . . . . .188 



XIX. William Edwards and Discipline . 197 



XX. S. S. HowLAND as a Breeder . .201 



XXI. Simmons^ Stoner^ and Thayer . 207 



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