SKETCHES OF FAMOUS ANIMALS. 107 



CHAPTEE YIII. 



SKETCHES OF FAMOUS ANIMALS TRAINED AT PALO ALTO — 



THE STARS OF TEN YEARS AGO OCCIDENT THE FIRST 



HORSE TO BEAT 2:17 THE STRANGE HISTORY OF HIS 



SIRE OLD ST. CLAIR — ABE EDGINGTON THE HALF 



BROTHERS, CLAY AND CAPT. SMITH THE GREAT MARE 



ELAINE, 2:20 — FRED CROCKER, THE FIRST PALO ALTO 

 RECORD-BREAKER. 



I HAVE now outlined in as brief a manner as possible 

 the general history of Palo Alto, but the scope of the 

 foregoing chapters would not admit of justice being 

 done each of the greater horses mentioned that have 

 earned world-wide fame. Every horseman will, I 

 know, be glad to have some more definite account of 

 such great horses as Palo Alto, Sunol, Manzanita, 

 Hinda Rose, etc., and I now propose to give sketches 

 of each in turn, relating their individual characteristics, 

 their breeding, their history, and important facts bear- 

 ing on their training. Though I am averse to devot- 

 ing too much of the space of this book to historical 

 writing, or to story-telling, the reader will not fail to 

 appreciate the fact that this matter is really illustra- 

 tive of our system of training, and is necessary to a 

 proper understanding of it, and of Avhat it has accom- 

 plished and can accomplish. Just as the history of 

 Smuggler had its lessons to the tr^'ner. so the history 



