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began working " the Dame Winnie colt " as the others 

 were worked, in his yearling form, and he trotted from 

 the start. At two years old he came directly under 

 my charge, and his impro\'Tement was marvellous. 

 Excepting Sunol we never had a two-year-old so 

 promising as Palo Alto, and for those who do not 

 believe that those that trot young train as a rule, it 

 will be in order to note that these two most precocious 

 youngsters have the fastest records to the credit of 

 Electioneer. He could trot a quarter in 0:33 as a two- 

 3^ear-old, and he showed us at that age a full mile in 

 2;23|. After that he was named Palo Alto, for then 

 Governer Stanford thought him worthy to bear the 

 name of the farm.- He was always a favorite with 

 the Governor, owing to his high form and his breed- 

 ing, but he would not confer the name Palo Alto upon 

 'him until he showed himself worthy of it. His two- 

 year-old trial met the requirement. 



In his three-year-old form Palo Alto was still a 

 great colt, but not as good, relatively, as in his two- 

 year-old form, and until the past season (1SS9) he has 

 never seemed to me to come up to the high promise of 

 the time when he was enthusiastically named Palo 

 Alto. The spring that he was four years old he was a 

 very siek horse, and though his campaign of that year 

 was splendidly successful, he was not the horse he 

 would have been had he suffered no set-backs. That 

 season, too, he developed a nasty splint, which at times 

 troubled him quite seriously. He was also lame in the 

 hip that spring, and, on Fuller's advice, I consulted the 

 noted veterinarian, Dr. Sheppard, who located the 

 trouble and successfully prescribed treatment. 



