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country is now making in eugenics. It was 

 Grovernor Leland Stanford, owner of 

 "Electioneer," and the great Palo Alto 

 Farm, who placed David Starr Jordan at 

 the head of Stanford University, with un- 

 limited funds, to carry out his ideas on 

 breeding and heredity. 



The trotting horse indutsry has in the 

 United States and Canada, perhaps, a 

 million or more persons financially or 

 otherwise interested in its success. It has 

 six or seven weekly papers entirely de- 

 voted to its interests, and in every big 

 city there are one or more daily papers 

 that give a column or part of a column 

 each week to matters relating to the trot- 

 ting horse. 



The Grand Circuit consists of about 

 fourteen large tracks. In addition to 

 these, there are over 900 other tracks with 

 their smaller circuits which work inde- 

 pendently of each other and of the Grand 

 Circuit. There are several thousand 

 people who go through the Grand Circuit 

 every year and thousands more that attend 

 the various smaller circuits, half-mile 



