132 TEAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE GREAT FOUR-YEAR-OLDS OF 1886 — MANZ ANITA AND 



PALO ALTO THE BREEDING, TRAINING AND HISTORY 



OF MANZANTTA THE MEMORABLE THREE - YEAR - OLD 



BATTLES OF 1885 MANZANITA BEATS PATRON, SILVER- 

 ONE, EAGLE BIRD AND GREENLANDER AT CHICAGO 



THE SMART MEN DISCOVER A " QUITTER " AND PAY FOB 



THE INFORMATION THE MEMORABLE RACE FOR THE 



GASCONADE STAKES AT THE ST. LOUIS FAIR PATRON 



WINS THROUGH BAD STARTING A GREAT STABLE IN 



1886. 



The main reliance of our stable in its successful 

 campaign of 1886 was placed in the two great four- 

 year-olds Manzanita, full sister to Wildflower, and 

 Palo Alto, by Electioneer, out of the thoroughbred 

 mare Dame Winnie, by Planet. Manzanita was faster 

 than Palo x\lto as a four-year-old, and indeed the fact 

 is that had she stood training to his age she would 

 most certainly have taken a record closer to 2:10 than 

 2:12. There was no four-year-old of her year that 

 could give Manzanita a race, and her easy defeat of 

 Patron demonstrated that fact so conclusively that our 

 good Kentucky friends could almost see it. Barring 

 Patron, it is doubtful if any four-year-old outside of 

 our stable could beat Palo Alto, so that we had the 

 races for that age practically at our mercy. But this 



