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CHAPTER YI. 



FIEST 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 DEMONSTRA- 

 TION OF THE POSITIONS OF ANIMALS IN MOTION. 



Among the horses in my stable at the Bay District 

 track during the winter of 1878 was Gen. Benton, 

 that had just been brought from Xew York State, by 

 Governor Leland Stanford, to his farm at Palo Alto. 

 He was sent to me to work during the winter, and a 

 day or two after Smuggler went away, Gen. Benton 

 was taken down to the ranch in the Santa Clara Yalley, 

 and it so happened that I went with him. The result 

 was, that "the Governor," as all conditions of people 

 in California delight to call him, engaged me to train 

 the horses at Palo Alto, on trial. I came here April 

 10, 1878, and as the reader now knows am here still, 

 and now endeavoring to tell what I have learned from 

 twelve years work and experience, and I might add 

 experiment, on the largest horse-breeding and training 

 farm m the world. 



For obvious reasons, this book would be incomplete 

 without some sketch of world-famous Palo Alto and 

 its renowned founder. Senator Leland Stanford, and 



