STINOL. 173 



CHAPTEK XIY. 



STJNOL, THE PHENOMENAL TROTTER OF THE NINETEENTH 



CENTURY — HER BREEDING AND HER FORM HER 



TEMPER AND NERVOUS ORGANIZATION HER FIRST 



LESSONS — TRAINING ON TO GREATNESS DETAILS OF 



HOW SHE WAS WORKED WINS HER FIRST RACE 



LOWERING THE TWO-YEAR-OLD BECORD TO 2:20^ — • 

 LOWERING IT AGAIN TO 2:18 — THE WINTER OF 1888-9 



A LIST OF BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES CHA^klPION 



THREE-YEAR-OLD OF THE WORLD — 2:10|^. 



The filly Sunol was foaled April 14, 1886. Her 

 ■sire was Electioneer, and her dam is the chestnut mare 

 Waxana, by Gen. Benton, and Waxana's dam was the 

 mare Waxy, whose pedigree has been the subject of 

 SO much controversy. AYaxy was always represented 

 to be by Lexington, but until Sunol trotted in 2:18 at 

 two years old no serious attempt was made to establish 

 it. After Mr. Wallace, the compiler of the Trotting 

 Eegister, questioned it, Governor Stanford employed 

 Mr. Levi S. Gould, of Boston, a gentleman of much ex- 

 perience in tracing pedigrees, to investigate it. The 

 controversy over this pedigree would fill many pages 

 of this book, and of course I will not burden it 

 with the dreary details, it being unnecessary to say 

 more than that Mr. Gould reported, after a long and 

 thorough investigation, that Waxy was a thorough- 



