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finely finished all over, with the best of legs and feet, and has 

 remarkable length from the hip to the hock. Her height over 

 the quarter, and her short steep rump, give her a remarkably 

 greyhoundish appearance. She is by Electioneer, and out of 

 Waxana, by General Benton. Waxana's dam was Waxy, the 

 most satisfactory version of whose pedigree shows her to have 

 been a full sister to Annette (the dam of Ansel, 2:20,) by Lex. 

 ington, out of a Grey Eagle mare. Sunol was foaled April 14, 

 1886. 



Her work was substantially on the plan outlined above. 

 I began to break her to harness at about a year old, and found 

 her the most high-strung, nervous, and difficult colt that I 

 ever handled. She was mean when first hitched, and it was 

 only with the expenditure of the greatest patience that she 

 was ever got to be at all tractable. After I got her to going 

 in harness I worked her in the manner described above, never 

 driving more than half a mile at any gait, and always making 

 short brushes. She was wonderfully speedy from the outset, 

 and early in the spring I saw that, if all went well, I had in the 

 Waxana filly a star of the first magnitude. 



She was entered to trot at Los Angeles on the 5th of 

 August, 1888. I shipped my stable there about July 20th, 

 and up till this time Sunol had never been driven a mile in 

 her life. Four days before the race I gave her a full rnile 

 in 2:40|-, (she had shown me the ability to trot quarters 

 better than thirty-five seconds.) Then I repeated her in 2:38. 

 Two days before the race I gave her a mile and repeat in 2:30 

 and 2?33|^. Vesolia, by Stamboul, was her competitor in the 

 race, and Sunol won in straight heats — the first heat in 2:34^, 

 the second in 2:25. She was very frightened of the people, 

 which was the only difficulty in managing her. Our stable 

 was then shipped home, and the filly got no more miles, but 

 the usual work, with occasional fast quarters and halves, until 

 the meeting at Petaluma, late in August. Before her race at 

 Petaluma she got a mile and repeat in 2:38 and 2:33. She 

 broke in the first heat of the race, but captured the heat in 



