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the things of greatest importance concerning the trot- 

 ting-horseman into a volume of convenient size, and 

 trust that in a fair measure I have succeeded. 



My greatest success, as the world knows, has been 

 with tile get of Electioneer, and while it would be but 

 affectation to say that I am not conscious of having 

 done considerable to help his reputation, I have no 

 doubt he has done, in giving me the material I have 

 had to work with, much for mine. So in this chapter 

 a little tribute to him is only scant justice from me. 



Electioneer is a dark bay horse, standing 15.2 hands 

 high, and was bred by Charles Backman, at his stud 

 farm at Stony Ford, Xew York. He was foaled May 

 2, 1868, and came to Palo Alto in the fall of 1876. 

 His sire was Eysdyk's Hambletonian, the greatest 

 progenitor of trotters, and his dam was Green Mount- 

 ain Maid, "the great mother of trotters,'' over whose 

 grave a monument stands at Stony Ford. She was by 

 Harry Clay, 2:29, out of Shanghai Mary, whose lineage 

 is enfolded in mystery, but whose blood must, from 

 what she was and what her daughter was, have had a 

 strain of sterling richness in it. Among Green Mount- 

 ain Maid's famous children, besides Electioneer, are 

 Prospero, 2:20 ; Elaine, 2:20 ; Dame Trot, 2:22 ; Elista, 

 2:22f , Mansfield, 2:26; Storm, 2:26f; Antonio, 2:28f, 

 and Miranda, 2:31. She is the dam of more trotters 

 that have trotted in 2:30 or better than any mare that 

 has ever lived ; and she also produced in Electioneer 

 the greatest sire of trotters that has ever lived. 



Electioneer, as his picture shows, is a stout and com- 

 pactly built horse. I have above given his height at 

 15.2 measured at the wither. He is an inch hiofher 



