Show What Stanford Thinks of Snnol Specialto THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON Feb 15uMr Bonner is right said Senator Leland Stanford last evening Sunol has trotted quarters as low down a 29 seconds and before the coming summer closes will under favorable favor-able circumstances trot a mile in close to 206 And by the way my belief is that that time will prove about the lowest limit which any horse will ever be able to achieve at the trot Sunol is no longer mine therefore I shall not lie under the suspicion of rating her beyond her merits when I say I almost despair of being able to breed another animal capable of such extreme flights of speed She has evury thing in her favor conformation amoi tion gameness stamina nerve power and I last but not least brains which in horse parlance means I level head When in New York few days since Mr Bonner and myself ld a consultation as to Sunols immediate disposition We agreed that on the whole it would be wise to rive Marvin a chance to lower her record and 1larvin then bring her to Mr Bonners private stable The programme thus decided on will be carried out and in tie early autumn Mr Bonner will handle the reins over her in person Wero the recent sales in New York disappointing to youl Ina measure yes There were some of the direct get of Electioneer out of well bred mares that I think ought to have brought more money So far as the get of untried sires are concerned tae prices received re-ceived were on the whole satisfactory The price paid for the trotting gelding Express Ex-press was however far below his true value Iwas offered 3000 for him a year ago and refused it I thought and still think that a horse of his individuality and speed ought to have brought more money He was shipped east through mistake and his owner may be congratulated that he got a bargain through an error Upon the whole however as I said before I am very well satisfied over the receipts and do not think that the receipts received in any way indicate that the Electioneers are on the wane especially when you take into consideration con-sideration the stringency of money At my farm the greet trouble is to got one of the right drivers My next great trouble is the letting up of my youngsters after training them Nearly of them have gone wrong after being lot up after severe training train-ing It may seem singular to the general public but so it is I have never bred a fast colt that could not have been made to go faster if I had been able to find that priceless price-less and yet unknown quantity a trainer of intelligence judgment and dlscretibn |