318 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTEE XXIX. 



NEARING THE END A TRIBUTE TO ELECTIONEER — HIS BREED- 

 ING, HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS HIS SPEED HIS 



ROLL OF HONOR AND RANK AS A SIRE — THE ELEC- 

 TIONEER ACTION THE ELECTIONEERS AS CAMPAIGN- 

 ERS — GENERAL BENTON PIEDMONT NEPHEW THE 



ST. CLAIRS THE BELMONTS — THE MOORS NUTWOOD — • 



GUY WILKES — A. W. RICHMOND — AU REVOIR. 



I HAVE now covered almost all the ground contem- 

 plated at the outset of this work. I have given my 

 experiences with the most noted horses I have driven ; 

 have told how they were trained ; have elucidated, as 

 fully and explicitly as it seems in my power, the meth- 

 ods of teaching colts to trot that have been so success- 

 ful at Palo Alto; have explained how they are fed, 

 kept, shod, worked and driven, and have given my 

 views on the practical aspects of breeding. Taking up 

 the colt at his birth, we have traveled, as it were, in a 

 circle back to the starting point, and all that remains 

 to complete the programme on which we started out is 

 to devote a chapter to Electioneer and other horses and 

 families of California. 



A thousand things remain to be said, and dozens of 

 topics of varying importance in " horseology " have 

 been neglected ; but no man has ever yet covered all 

 horse knowledge in one volume, and I was not foolish 

 enough to attempt to do it. I have striven to condense 



