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standard. His method was to cross the Kentucky The fine 

 racehorse, sleek, slender, and fine-limbed, with the J*tf 

 large and strong British "Thoroughbred," reputed breeding 

 to be descended from Arabian stock. In this effort 

 he was wholly successful, several of his animals 

 carrying off the highest honors of their time. To 

 their owner they seemed almost human also, so 

 thoroughly did he understand and love them. Sunol, 

 a famous young mare, was relinquished for $40,000, 

 but the sale (in 1892) of Arion, the superb young 

 stallion, at $125,000, was a real grief to him; indeed, 

 he had purposely set the price at what he thought a 

 prohibitive figure. He afterward refused $150,000 

 for Advertiser, an older stallion, announcing him as 

 "not for sale." Palo Alto, a magnificent creature 

 which had trotted a mile in 2.08 J on November 17, 

 1891, he declined to let go for the sum of $100,000, 

 declaring that a million would not buy him! And 

 when Palo Alto died, in July, 1893, most of us felt 

 it in some sense a personal loss. 



Stanford used to spend hours at a time watching Motions 

 the horses as they sped around his private track. 

 Thus absorbed one day, the thought came that it 

 might be possible to make an elaborate series ot 

 instantaneous photographs which should record in 

 detail the several stages in the fleet movements of 

 a racer. To that end, he secured the services of 

 Eadweard Muybridge, a clever English photog- 

 rapher, who by a special device produced a long 

 succession of pictures disclosing each motion in 

 trotting and running. Those experiments made 

 earliest use of the methods out of which has been 

 developed the cinema or moving-picture film. The 

 details in human progression also were shown in a 



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