XVlll CONTENTS. 



Page, 

 CHAPTER IV. 



The Great Race with Goldsmith Maid — The Details of the Most 

 Memorable Race of the Centennial Year — A Close Call — " S. 

 T. H.'s " Graphic Description 54 



CHAPTER V. 



The Free- for- All Battles Down the Line — From Cleveland to 

 Springfield— Great Race at Hartford— 1877 a Poor Year for 

 Smuggler — Taken to California — Breaks Down in the Spring 

 of 1878 and Sent Home— Good-by to Smuggler 73 



CHAPTER VI. 



First Visit to Palo Alto— Sketch of Its Illustrious Founder and 

 Proprietor, Leland Stanford — His Genius as a Horseman, His 

 Pure Character, and His Munificent Charities— The History 

 of Palo Alto in Brief Outline — A Scientific Demonstration of 

 the Positions of Animals in Motion 81 



CHAPTER VII. 



ffistory of Palo Alto Continued— First Trials of the Palo Alto 

 System Unsuccessful — Reasons Therefor — Some General 

 Observations on Training and Trainers — Occident and Abe 

 Edgington Campaigns Briefly Outlined from 1878 to 1889 — 

 The Great Campaign of 1886— Plans for 1888 Frustrated by 

 Fire — Further Successes 96 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Sketches of Famous Animals Trained at Palo Alto— The Stars of 

 Ten Years Ago— Occident the First Horse to Beat 2:17— The 

 Strange History of His Sire— Old St. Clair— Abe Edgington— 

 The Half-Brothers, Clay and Capt. Smith— The Great Mare 

 Elaine, 2-20 — Fred Crocker, the First Palo Alto Record- 

 Breaker 107 



