86 TRAINING THE TKO'lTING HORSE. 



elected United States Senator, which high position he 

 has since filled with marked ability and to the entire 

 satisfaction of the people. His establishment and en- 

 dowment of the great Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, Avhich bears the name of his lamented son, will 

 go down to history as an act unparalled in the annals 

 of public benefactions, and his memory will ever be 

 cherished in the hearts of a grateful people." 



Governor Stanford has done, by grand example, at 

 least as much as any man living to elevate the horse- 

 breeding interest, and clothe it in that respectability 

 which by right it should wear. Passionately fond of 

 horses, he is naturally a good judge of them. He is, 

 indeed, the best judge of form and of the proper con- 

 formation for speed that I have ever known. By a 

 sort of instinct he discerns the undeveloped merit that 

 the most of us do not recognize until it is demonstrated. 

 The matter of disposition and temperament he has 

 made a study of, perhaps to a greater degree than the 

 matter of form, and his success as a breeder, and es- 

 pecially his success in matmg thoroughbred-mares with 

 trotting stallions, is due in no small degree to his 

 intuitive analysis of temperament, and careful dis- 

 crimination in blending blood with regard to mental 

 as well as to physical qualities. Not only is "the 

 Governor " an adept in judging of individual qualities 

 in horses, and of valuing blood, but his ideas on train- 

 ing have to a certain degree revolutionized that art. 

 He is, as all the world knows — and as the reader of this 

 book will better appreciate a little further on — the 

 father of the Palo Alto system of training. That 

 system is the outgrowth jpf an idea of which he was 



