94: TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



In order to accommodate it to the size of this work 

 the diagram had to be drawn on a very small scale, 

 and this must be remembered by the reader who 

 tries to form a conception of the magnitude of the 

 establishment. It will be noticed that there is a 

 mile and a three-quarter mile track, an open training 

 paddock about one tenth of a mile in circumference, 

 and a covered one about one - sixteenth of a mile 

 around. These as well as the other training appli- 

 ances will be fully described and discussed in the 

 proper place We have generally about seventy colts 

 and horses in training at Palo Alto, there being always 

 six to seven assistant trainers. In all about eighty men 

 are employed on trotters, not including the blacksmiths, 

 harness-makers, etc., farmers or Chinese laborers. 



J^o sketch of Palo Alto would be complete witljout 

 some reference to Governor Stanford's great contribu- 

 tion to science, in demonstrating, through the agency 

 of the camera, the actual movements and positions of 

 animals in motion. Governor Stanford had for a long 

 time entertained the opinion that the accepted theory 

 of the relative positions of the feet of horses in rapid 

 motion was erroneous. He believed that the camera 

 could be utilized to prove that the conventional idea of 

 the positions and movements in rapid motion was 

 wrong, and that by instantaneous photographs the 

 actual position of the limbs at each instant in the 

 stride could be shown. He ens^ao^ed Mr. Muvbrido-e, 

 an expert photographer of San Francisco to conduct 

 the experiments, and by an elaborate arrangement and 

 equipment of twenty-four cameras, after many weeks' 

 work, pictures were prepared showing the relative 



