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After an absence, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was back in Sacramento, California by 1877 to take more photos of Leland Stanford's famous trotter Occident.
The Palo Alto System, devised by Leland Stanford and implemented by the skilled personnel he hired, was a blueprint for producing fast trotters.
In 1876 he began building his huge horse operation in Palo Alto, about 30 miles south of San Francisco.
The Old Gray Mare, Lady Suffolk, campaigned for 16 seasons to the title "Queen of the Turf". She was a champion Standardbred under saddle and to sulky in the 1840s.
The Palo Alto Stock Farm consistently produced trotting horses that lowered records.
Visitors enjoy Parke County, Indiana, which is keeping a link to America's rustic past alive by preserving its covered bridges and history.
While no single breed of horse automatically makes a great pleasure mount, one uniquely American breed often makes a better "Joe Horse" than any other: the Standardbred.
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