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stallion championship. Stamboul on the kite track at Stockton, Cal., 

 Kremlin on the regulation track at Nashville, Tenn. , the former driven 

 by Walter Maben, the latter by Ed. Either, each hooked to a bicycle sulky 

 with pneumatic tires, began their struggles early in the fall, when Stamboul 

 wrested the crown from Palo Alto by trotting in 2:08^2. Almost imme- 

 diately after, Kremlin placed it at 2:08^ and a few days later Stamboul 

 again reduced it to 2:08 flat. Saturday, November i2th, Kremlin again 

 took the crown with his present record, 2:07^, only to lose it again to 

 Stamboul on Wednesday, November 23rd, when the present stallion 

 record, 2:07^, was made. 



Palo Alto, a bay, bred by Senator Stanford, and worthily carrying 

 the name of the Senator's famous breeding farm, was got by Electioneer 

 out of a strictly Thoroughbred mare Dame Winnie. Dame Winnie, 

 now dead, has the distinction of being the only strictly Thoroughbred 

 mare that has produced three trotters in the 2:30 list one of the three 

 being better than 2:10. She was sired by Planet, out of a mare by im- 

 ported Glencoe. Palo Alto was the one brilliant example of the " Thor- 

 oughbred-blood-in-the-trotter" advocates, and nobly did the game old 

 horse support their theories. He was foaled February 15, 1882, and died 

 July 21, 1892, of pneumonia from the effects of a cold contracted in ship- 

 ment east. On Tuesday, November 17, 1891, Palo Alto wrested the 

 stallion championship from Allerton, 2:09^, by trotting a mile to an 

 old-style sulky in spite of lameness in 2:08^, equaling the ex-world's 

 record of Maud S, and carrying the stallion crown safely into winter 

 quarters. 



Allerton, a bright brown bay, with white spots on front coronets and 

 white hind ankles, was foaled in 1886, bred, and is still owned by C. W. 

 Williams, Independence, Iowa. Allerton is by Jay Bird, out of Gussie 

 Wilkes. Jay Bird is a son of George Wilkes, and Gussie Wilkes is out 

 of Dora Wilkes, a daughter of George Wilkes. Mambrino Boy, the sire 

 of Gussie Wilkes, is a grandson of Mambrino Chief, and Lady Frank, 

 the dam of Jay Bird, is a granddaughter of Mambrino Chief. George 

 Wilkes is by Hambletonian 10, and both Hambletonian and Mambrino 

 Chief are grandsons of Mambrino (American), a son of imported Messen- 

 ger. The blood which Allerton boasts carries with it speed and bottom, 

 yet even this is second to his splendid individuality. Win or lose, that 

 element of tenacity, which has earned for him the title of the "bull-dog 

 trotter," never leaves him, and his warmest admirers are those who have 

 witnessed his very few defeats. His record of 2:09^ was made on Sat- 

 urday, September 19, 1891, on the kite-shaped track at Rush Park, In- 

 dependence, la., and the crown was held until lost to Palo Alto on the 

 1 7th of November following. As a three-year-old his performances, 

 while overshadowed in the popular mind by the wonderful speed of his 

 stable companion and close relative, Axtell, were, in the minds of close 



