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many horsemen and breeders, the greatest brood-mare that 

 the world has ever seen, for in addition to having six sons 

 and daughters in the 2: 30 list, and another one with a record 

 of 2:31, she is also dam of Electioneer, the most famous 

 •stallion now alive. More than this, the blood of Green 

 Mountain Maid is potent on both sides of the house. Not 

 only has her son Electioneer sired the fastest young trotters 

 in the world, but one of her daughters, Elaine, that beat all 

 the records for three-year-olds when she was of that age 

 and afterward obtained a mark of 2:20, is the dam of the 

 filly Norlaine that in 1887 set the yearling record at 2:31|, 

 a performance which no other trotter of her age has ap- 

 proached, and had not Norlaine been destroyed by the fire 

 at Palo Alto the following spring there is little doubt as a 

 two-year-old she would have beaten 2:20. Not only have the 

 produce of Stony Ford made themselves famous on the 

 turf but that establishment has been the fountain from 

 which other breeders have made drafts for the purpose of 

 establishing breeding farms in various parts of the country, 

 and these have been uniformly successful. When Governor 

 Stanford began his operations at Palo Alto one of his first 

 moves was to visit Stony Ford and purchase $43,000 worth 

 ■of breeding stock, among the animals being Electioneer, for 

 whom he paid $12,500, and to this horse is due the fame of his 

 sons that made Palo Alto famous throughout the world as 

 the birthplace of the fastest baby trotters. At that time it 

 was thought an extraordinary occurrence for a man to invest 

 so much money in animals for breeding purposes, but Gov- 

 ernor Stanford has proved the wisdom of his investment, 

 and shown that the money has come back to him one hun- 

 dredfold. 



This has been the experience of other men who have made 

 drafts from Stony Ford for breeding purposes, and the most 

 noticeable illustration of the esteem in which that establish- 

 ment is held is shown by the fact that Mr. Wm. Russell 

 Allen, whose farm at Pittsfield, Mass., starts out under 

 auspices singularly favorable', went to Stony Ford and at 



