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also Sphinx beat Castalia, and Suisun beat Ben Hur 

 and others. I^ext we went to Cleveland, where Palo 

 Alto defeated Deck Wright and other seasoned cam- 

 paigners after a six-heat contest, and St. Bel won over 

 a good field. Manzanita, Palo Alto, St. Bel and Sphinx 

 put other victories to their credit before we returned 

 to Lexington for the fall meeting. In the three-year- 

 old stake Sphinx was beaten by Bermuda and Nut- 

 breaker, and Hinda Kose was unequal to the task of 

 beating the great Patron, but Manzanita carried the 

 stable's colors to victory over Greenlander and August 

 Haverstick in the four-year-old stake. At St. Louis, 

 October 5th, St. Bel was beaten by Astral, but on the 

 7th Manzanita decisively defeated the Kentucky cham- 

 pion four-year-old. Patron, in a great race in straight 

 heats, and on the following day Palo Alto, by beating 

 Charley Hogan and others, closed what was certainly 

 a very successful season for the Palo Alto stable. The 

 greatness of Electioneer now received marked recogni- 

 tion, for Mr. Brodhead, of Woodburn, shipped with us 

 Miss Eussell (the dam of Maud S., 2:08i), two of 

 Maud S.'s sisters, a sister to Nutwood^ and the dam of 

 Pancoast to be bred to him. Though we got back 

 home only three days before the Stanford Stake was 

 trotted for, we started Kexford in that race, and beat 

 Alcazar handily. 



In 1887 our stable was not in the best of condition. 

 Clifton Bell, after bemg beaten by Tempest at Sacra- 

 mento, came to the Bay District track and won a good 

 race, afterward taking a record of 2:24|^. He was a 

 four-year-old of great promise. Besides Clifton Bell 

 we gave Ansel a record of 2:20, Maiden a three year- 



