102 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



In 1882 I started East with Wildflower and Hinda 

 Rose, lea\dng Sacramento September 20th, and after 

 winning the two stakes we went after, we returned 

 home. In 1883 we again went East with Bonita, 

 Hinda Rosa, and Wildflower, and the chief triumph of 

 the campaign was Hinda Rose's lowering the three- 

 year-old record to 2:19J, and Bonita also lowered the 

 four-year-old record — 2:19, by Jay-Eye-See — to 2:18f. 

 Wildflower suffered from distemper all through the 

 season. 



In 1884, owmg to the death of the bright and well- 

 beloved 3^outh, Leland Stanford, Jr., the Palo Alto 

 stable did not campaign; but as Elvira, daughter of 

 Cuyler, had taken the four-year-old honor back to Ken- 

 tucky by trotting a mile in 2:1 8|^, we took a few young- 

 sters up to the Bay District track in the autumn, and 

 besides giving Manzanita a two-year-old public trial of 

 2:25, drove the four-year-old Sallie Benton, daughter of 

 Gen. Benton, a mile in 2:17f , and thus the four-year-old 

 banner w^as pulled down from the Glenview staff, and 

 hoisted over Palo Alto, where it yet remains, with 

 "Manzanita, 2:16" blazoned on it. 



In 1885, about the last of July, we shipped East a 

 strong stable of twelve trotters, among them Man- 

 zanita, Sallie Benton, Sphinx, Carrie C, Palo Alto, 

 Hinda Rose, St. Bel, Rexford and Chimes. We w^ent 

 direct to Rochester, thence to Albany, where Manzanita 

 and Palo Alto each "walked over" for stakes. At 

 Rochester two of the best strings in our bow snapped 

 when Sallie Benton and I^ellie Benton (a very promis- 

 ing mare) broke down. Among our successes were the 

 victory of Manzanita in the great three-year old race 



