Show GREAT A I brief sketch of senator Stan fords beautiful horse all newspaper readers will reme kemem in bek the cleath ot of senator Stan fords great stallion electioneer 1 which ocean ed sometime ago diab ul abbas baa been firt enough to get a num berof tha the descendants of the cabla animal among them being elector owned by alderman pell fell A brief outline of bia his life lite wit may be of interest to the owners and sm ill 1 lovers overe of 0 mina mans beat friend A recent issue of the published in new york and chicago contained a well written article on the b beautiful e dutiful animal also a good cut found oa the front page ele electioneer eti ineer wai was bred by charls charles backman at the famous stony ford furd stud in orange county new york w where here bis his ilam dam lie ilea under a monument raised to the great mother of trotters not very tar far from where the stone near the winding walkill marks the reeling resting puce place of urt a a at u atala maid the duac dust of iha the heru of coaster is entombed and nd when horsemen wander in that region in future days they will remember the horse that is under the live oaks at plo ialo alto his lite greatness will forever pro preserve erve be the memory tuemo ryot of green blou mountain maid and on the honor bonor rOllof roll of his to prouder name Is written than that of electioneer he ile was foiled in IM 1808 and taken to palo alio alto in the tall of 1870 before going to palo alto be bad had no 0 opportunity 1 duniy in the studio atud eo that t hi bis I 1 t lainily pg re heully ally dates from 1878 in e estimating sti matlog election fera raak rank as a fire this fact mutt be fm glen doe due vi weight eight and we search the re cordi in vain to find another line that in the pace of twelve years rose to such a dazzling dizz lin emlo ence Elect electioneer loner below out of the greatest mare Hamblet onlAn ever embraced may be safety called his beet bred loved son and bis his breeding was backed up by good individuality lacking something perhaps in range be he was still almost beyond criticism crit icim inform in form klowas he WAS good and stout at al sl ponti po a horse of mar marvel marcelus velus jus le 0 9 11 1 and consistency consia tency of ture I 1 common genbe bone horse from bis his brainy bead head to his hi tall lie was a very dark bay in color and was about 15 2 hands high at the and an hn inch belabor behind an order of 0 informs tion which la Is noticeable in a pronounced degree in many of b bla is pet got and notably in to latiol ills broad forehead and general expression of intelligence furnished the explanation of lia his power howerto to control the mont ment 41 organization tf cf the thoroughbred but the moat most striking feature in the makeup make up of 0 electioneer was the enormous power and strength of his quarters there was the stamp of most plainly been seen though electioneer was never raced and naver never acquired a record he was quite fall fully devel pd and in work on palo y altos tr ck he coald carry the speedy occident right up t to bis his peed speed there Is iana n question in the minds of those who knew him best that it in bis his prime he could have beaten if it prepared for a record As a sire alre of trotters no greater praise ra can ba be given than the simple simpi e cacti facts tb that at be begot more 2 30 trott trotters erv more trotters an and d more young record breakers than any boree horse that ever lived governor Gi vernor stanford is quoted as expressing the belief thit electioneer never git gt a horse that could not with due opportunity have beaten it is toned that all of the ret got of lot electioneer that were trained at palo pal 0 alto over sixty five per cent bad the watch actually demonstrated ability to beat for many years governor stanford practically ignored ig norel the 2 30 list making no effort to put trotter trotters therein but concentrating all on producing prodo cing young record breakers electioneer got fewer foals than is generally sup oed from the data it is to fetid that be he got but save seven foals foia in 1 1877 8 7 7 five of which aich were trained and i ares are in the list the next year he got twenty one fo foal alsand saud of the sixteen trained nine are in the 1 st but bat sixteen foals are reported in 1880 twenty three in 1881 and d 10 forty ayin in 1882 this number being the most of any year in electioneers services |