90 MEMOIR. 



that sired Star Pointer, Hal Dillard, Hal Braden, Storm 

 and New Richmond. 



Palo Alto was selected by his breeder as the colt 

 worthy of the name of the farm made famous by the get 

 of Electioneer. As a race horse he came up to expecta- 

 tions. No one ever saw a better, and an early death alone 

 prevented him from being equally successful as a sire. At 

 the Cleveland Grand Circuit meeting in 1886, Palo Alto 

 won the 2 129 class, in the second heat of which he trotted 

 the last half in 1 107^4 . At the fall meeting he also won 

 the 2 :20 class, his sixth heat in 2 \20]/\ being considered a 

 much better four-year-old performance than Manzanita'r 

 record breaking mile in 2:16*4 at the summer meeting. 

 In 1891 Palo Alto placed the stallion record at 2:08%. 

 He died the following July. 



Lucy Fry won the first regular event on the pro- 

 gramme at the meeting in 1886. She was by Blue Bull, 

 out of the old race mare Kitty Bates, and made her rec- 

 ord of 2 :20^4 in the deciding heat. The following week 

 at Buffalo, Lucy Frv broke her les; in the first heat of a 

 race and was destroyed. Her race at Cleveland was sand- 

 wiched with the 2:21 class, in which Bonnie McGregor 

 disposed of Belle F. and half a dozen others in 2:17^4, 

 2:iSy 2 , 2:20. On the following day Manzanita cut the 

 four-year-old trotting record of the world to 2:16^4, 

 when she finished a length in front of Belle Hamlin in 

 the first heat of the 2 125 class. She also won the second 

 heat in 2:1954, after which the beautiful mare from the 

 Village Farm went to the front in 2:18^2, 2:19, 2:185-2, 

 Spofford driving her out in two heats and Kitefoot in 

 the third. The other winners at the meeting were Endy- 

 mion, who was afterwards exported to Italy, Centella, 

 Harry Wilkes, Gossip, Jr., Arab and Mambrino Sparkle, 



