92 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



I will devote a chapter to some of the great horses of 

 Palo Alto, giving some sketch of each in detail. In 

 like manner I will outline the campaigns of the Palo 

 Alto horses, and in following chapters will give full 

 particulars of the training and trotting of those that 

 proved stars on the turf. 



The thoroughbred department at Palo Alto is kept 

 entirely separate from the trotting department, the 

 stables, track, etc., being located about two miles east 

 of the trotting headquarters. The most noted sires 

 there are Flood and Shannon, and among the best 

 mares in the stud are imported Flirt, dam of the good 

 race-mare Gorgo and of Faustine; imported Fairy 

 Rose, dam of Shannon Rose; Glendew, the dam of 

 Guenn and Geoffrey ; Lady Evangeline, dam of Flood- 

 tide, and other mares of the richest racing-blood of 

 America and England. The superintendent and 

 trainer of the thoroughbred department is Mr. Henry 

 Walsh. 



The business management of Palo Alto has been for 

 years in the hands of Mr. Ariel Lathrop, who has 

 general charge and direction of all Governor Stanford's 

 vast financial interests, and the mere mention of this 

 fact is sufficient evidence of Mr. Lathrop's business 

 capacity and upright character. 



The illustration and the diagram on the opposite 

 page will give an idea of what the trotting department 

 at Palo Alto is to-day. The reader will better under- 

 stand the establishment by a comparison of the photo- 

 graphic view and the diagram, noting that the former 

 was taken, looking northwest, from a point approxi- 

 mated by the star in the left lower section of the 

 diagram, somewhat to the left of the center. 



