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L. and Victor in straight heats in 2:21^, 2:20, 2:18. At 

 Petakmia, August 28th, he again won the 2:20 class 

 race, his time being 2:201, 2:21i 2:23^, Bay Eose 

 winning the second heat in 2:20^. September 2d, at 

 Oakland, he beat the same field in straight heats in 

 2:221 2:20, 2:19^ At the same track on the Tth, 

 he defeated Lilly Stanle}^ in 2:18^, 2:19i, 2:2Ui At 

 Stockton, Palo Alto trotted the most brilliant race 

 trotted by any horse in 1889. He had Direct and Bay 

 Eose to beat, and he did it in 2:16^-, 2:lTf, 2:13|, the 

 last being the fastest third heat ever trotted by a 

 stallion, xlt tha Bay District track, Xovember 2d, he 

 trotted against time in 2:15. On Xovember 9th he 

 trotted this track in 2:12^, with a losing break at the 

 finish. Then we took him to Xapa, Stamboul going 

 also, and on Xovember 16th both stallions made 

 records of 2:12^. Palo Alto's feet hurt him and he 

 broke in the last quarter, but settled in time to finish 

 well. Eain prevented further attempts to break the 

 stallion record which Axtell had set at 2:12, but had 

 the weather remained fair it is not certain that there 

 would not at the end of 1889 have been two stallions 

 with records faster than Axtell. 



Palo Alto's campaign of 1889 needs no eulogy or 

 elaboration. Only a bare statement of the recorded 

 facts is necessarj^ to show its briUiancj. 



