. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 284 <S?lue fPmtUr and jlptrrtsroatx. Sept. 12 THE HICKS STALLIONS. Prompter. Sire of Apex and Transit, Conceded the Best Representative of Blue Bull — Sterling, Sire of General Blucher and Arffent, 2:24 1-2. The name of M. W. Hicks, ot Sacramento, stands for some- thing more tban a nominally successful breeder. It stands for a more than ordinary exponent of a great theory, and for the founder of a great performing family. When the advo- cates of thoroughbred blood in the trotter extolled theirs as the one great and correct theory, tbey were met more than hal
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 284 <S?lue fPmtUr and jlptrrtsroatx. Sept. 12 THE HICKS STALLIONS. Prompter. Sire of Apex and Transit, Conceded the Best Representative of Blue Bull — Sterling, Sire of General Blucher and Arffent, 2:24 1-2. The name of M. W. Hicks, ot Sacramento, stands for some- thing more tban a nominally successful breeder. It stands for a more than ordinary exponent of a great theory, and for the founder of a great performing family. When the advo- cates of thoroughbred blood in the trotter extolled theirs as the one great and correct theory, tbey were met more than half-way by Dr. Hicks, who contended that pacing crosses in the trotter were as necessary to beget great muscular action and rapidity of stroke as wa3 the thorooghbred blood to hold a long-sustained action at the very apex of speed. Nor was the Doctor a mere theorist, goiog into the battle with no breastworks nor ramparts of public performance behind which to defend his proposition. He pointed triumphantly to the crosses of Pilot Jr. in Miud S , 2:08$. Jay-Eye-See, State during the seven months following my succession to the editorial chair of the Breeder and Sportsman, except Dr. Hicks; and being in Sacramento last week, I resolved to give the veteran exponent of pacing blood at least two hours of my leisure. He lives in an old house, bnilt away in the early fifties by that courtly old Sjutbern gentleman, Col. Philip L. Edwards, about three blooks from the traok. The outbuildings are old and unpretentious, but how often have you seen a book whose covers were worn with the friotion of time and yet oontained a splendidly written story? So it was with the old barn on the Doctor's place. It was homely in exterior but filled with great horses bred upon great blood lines. The Doctor's health has been slowly failing bim, for he is long past the three-quarter pole of sixty, bnt he received me with as much courtly grace as the old occupant of the house could have done had he been alive.
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