Training the trotting horse - a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience (1893) (14760427321)

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Title: Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Marvin, Charles Macleod, Leslie E
Subjects: Horses Horse racing
Publisher: Franklin, Pa. : Marvin Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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^ GovernorStanford, in New York, and brought to Sacramento.He was a son of Pj^sdj^ks Hambletonian, a horse offine proportions and style, but he has proved a failureas a sire of trotters, though some of his daughters haveproduced well, notably Sontag Mohawk, the dam of thegreat mare Sally Benton, 2:17$, Sport, 2:22f, Eros, 2:29^,etc. Then, in 1876, the young son of Hambletonian
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< O <O THE FOUNDATION BLOOD. 91 that is now known world-wide as the great Electioneercame, and, in 1S77, Gen. Benton followed. In 1883, thefamous campaigner Piedmont, 2:1 Tf, son of Almont,was purchased, and a few years ago Xephew, son ofHambrino, 2:21^, joined Electioneer, Piedmont andGen. Benton to complete the quartette of famousPalo Alto sires. At different times lots of brood-mares were brought from the East, and others hadbeen purchased in California, until, with the naturalincrement, the brood-mares now number about 300.The most famous of the mares imported from theEast are Elaine, 2:20, by Messenger Duroc, out ofGreen Mountain Maid, Electioneers dam; SontagMohawk, the dam of Sally Benton ; ^orma, the damof (Norval, 2:17i; Lady Thorn Jr., the dam of SantaGlaus. 2:17i-; Sprite, by Belmont, out of the greatmare Waterwitch; Gazelle, 2:21, by Hambleton-ian, out of Hattie Wood, by Harry Clay ; the notedtrotting-mares Lula, 2:15, and May Queen, 2:20,Lucy, 2:1-1, the