RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



In 1893 Prospect Hill Stock Farm was called the 

 Palo Alto of the East, because it had so much of the 

 blood that Leland Stanford made prominent, and 

 then Charles Marvin, so long in the employ of Gov- 

 ernor Stanford, was superintendent of the training 

 department. Three of the entire sons of Elec- 

 tioneer and Beautiful Bells were transferred from 

 Palo Alto to Prospect Hill, and they were St. Bel, 

 Electric Bell and Belsire. The other sons of Elec- 

 tioneer were Cecilian out of Cecil by General Ben- 

 ton, she out of Cuba, thoroughbred daughter of 

 imp. Australian; Ah There, out of Lizzie by thor- 

 oughbred Wildidle, she out of Lizzie Miller by St. 

 Clair; Ivo out of Victoria by thoroughbred Don 

 Victor, she out of Madora by St. Clair; and Sir 

 Outcross out of Sarah by thoroughbred Shannon, she 

 out of Blooming by Messenger Duroc. In the 

 brood-mare band were daughters of Almont, Guy 

 Wilkes, William L., Ansel, Sultan, Abdallah West, 

 Mambrino King, Harry Wilkes, Erin, Nutwood, 

 Lord Russell, General Benton, Alcantara, Greenlan- 

 der, Patron, Louis Napoleon, Mambrino Patchen, 

 Robert McGregor, Belmont, Harold, Victor Bis- 

 marck, Administrator, Happy Medium, and Alexan- 

 der. There were a number of the daughters of Elec- 

 tioneer, and one of them was Belleflower, sister of 

 Chimes and St. Bel. There was at one time quite 

 a rivalry between St. Bel and Chimes, and the latter 

 was sneered at by the Franklin School as the cull 

 of the Beautiful Bells family. Mr. Hamlin bided 



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