. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR Vol XVIII. Ko 26. mo. 813 BUSH ST±tliitT. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1891. MAJESTIC EVEN IN DEATH. The Skeleton of Electioneer as Articulated at Palo Alto, and How it Shows off His Ponderous Frame. The death of Senator Stanford's great stallion Electioneer^ which occurred on the third day of December last, removed no common horse. His greatness becomes all the more appar- ent to the observing reader, when he Btops to consider the fact that foals were dropped to the oover of his sire (Hamble- tonian 10) at four years old, while Electio
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR Vol XVIII. Ko 26. mo. 813 BUSH ST±tliitT. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1891. MAJESTIC EVEN IN DEATH. The Skeleton of Electioneer as Articulated at Palo Alto, and How it Shows off His Ponderous Frame. The death of Senator Stanford's great stallion Electioneer^ which occurred on the third day of December last, removed no common horse. His greatness becomes all the more appar- ent to the observing reader, when he Btops to consider the fact that foals were dropped to the oover of his sire (Hamble- tonian 10) at four years old, while Electioneer was ten before good cigar, rather than smoke a poor one. He glanced over Messenger Duroc and then said, coldly: "He looks ; A few minutes later he stood in the stall of the horse whose fame is linked with his own, and shall not speedily perish. The brown stallion's intelligent muzzle was away from the Californian, but he turned aronnd and gized upon the Paci- fic Coaster with a knowing look. Edging aronnd behind the horse, Mr. Stanford surveyed him a moment and then asked: "Is there any price on this horse?*' "Yes; ten thousand ; "Good enough; I'll take ; We have heard men say that Senator Stanford is no judge was the secret of his success in the stud for he was the most prepotent horse of bis era and transmitted his great quarters and massive loins to all his progeny. Whenever he failed to do so (and tho^e occasions were infrequent) the horse was no trotter. Bat the great Electioneer quarters, wherever he put them upon his eons and daughters, always conveyed in their train great speed at a pure gnit. That is one of the distin- guishing characteristics of the Electioneer blood, purity of gait, which is so seldom found. Now that the great growth and expansion of the trotting interest has become so colossal in its proportions, we find conditions of racing arising whioh will place purity of gait at a positive premium. The
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