His investigation of galloping horses for Leland Stanford, a California politician and racehorse owner, is well known.

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Leland Stanford was a Republican governor and senator in the late nineteenth century, who made a fortune from the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, which he had helped to found.

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