For those of us oldtimers who like history check out the beta of the updated All Breed Pedigree Database .. They just updated it with many more features which includes pictures, career summaries and much more and it includes that for the real old foundation sires. For example this is what they say about Electioneer who is the great great great great great great grandfather of Adios
AKA Electionaire. Brown, bh feet white, 15.1 hands. Foaled May 2, 1868, Orange County, NY. Bred by Charles Backman, Stony Ford Farm, USA. Owned by Governor Leland Stanford, Palo Alto, California. (Sire of Arlon, 2:07 3/4; Sunol, 2:08 1/4; Palo Alto, 2:08 3/4; Fred Crocker, 2:25 1/4; Arion, 2:10 3/4.) Died before 04. December 1890, obituary (german) in Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung, Vienna/Austria - January 4, 1891, p.10: (
https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=asz&datum)...called: Sultan of Palo Alto! Leyland Stanford: *1824 Waterfliet, Albany County, N.Y., died Palo Alto, 1893 Santa Clara County, California; Founder of the Stanford-University Palo Alto in 1891.
Check the new site out it's in beta mode. You can get lost for days
https://beta.allbreedpedigree.com/
