154: TRAININa THE TKOTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTEE XII. 



PALO ALTO, THE SON OF THE THOROUGHBRED MARE, DA^IE 



WINNIE HIS EARLY PROMISE THE NAME OF *' PALO 



alto" entrusted TO HIM TO UPHOLD ALMOST A 



CLEAN SWEEP IN HIS CLASS IN 1886 BEATING AGED 



CAMPAIGi^ERS IN LONG RACES ONLY ONE DEFEAT 



AND EIGHT VICTORIES NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH 



BY FIRE — THE BRILLIANT CAMPAIGN OF 1889 



INVINCIBLE AND UNBEATEN RECORD, 2:1 2^. 



The second of our great four-year-olds in the 1886 

 campai^'n was the now famous Palo Alto, Avhose 

 record of 2:12^ was one of the sensations of last 

 season. Palo Alto is further noted as being the only, 

 horse out of a strictly thoroughbred mare that has 

 ever beaten 2:20 ; and his performance demonstrates 

 that it is quite possible to unite the blood of a positive 

 and potent trotting sire with that of a good repre- 

 sentative of the running race-horse, and get the action 

 of the trotter combined with the finish and quahty of 

 the thoroughbred. 



Palo Alto was foaled February 15, 1882, and was 

 got by Electioneer out of the thoroughbred mare 

 Dame Winnie (the only thoroughbred mare that ever 

 produced three trotters to l)eat 2:30, and one to beat 

 2:20), by Planet, next dam by imported Glencoe, and 

 she out of a daughter of imported Margrave, etc. "We 



