. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXI. No. 4. 313 BUSH STEEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1892. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A bassador, acted in a similar manner on his public entrance into the city of l'aris. The following account of it may be amusing: "Six trumpeters and two marshals in rich velvet liveries, closely laced over with gold, led the way ; then came the Embassador and retinue of pages, booted with horses richly caparisoned. The Embassador's horses were shod with silver shoes, lightly tacked on, and when he came to a place where persons of beautv or eminence w
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXI. No. 4. 313 BUSH STEEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1892. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A bassador, acted in a similar manner on his public entrance into the city of l'aris. The following account of it may be amusing: "Six trumpeters and two marshals in rich velvet liveries, closely laced over with gold, led the way ; then came the Embassador and retinue of pages, booted with horses richly caparisoned. The Embassador's horses were shod with silver shoes, lightly tacked on, and when he came to a place where persons of beautv or eminence were, his horses pranced and curveted in a showy manner and threw their shoes away, which the greedy multitude scrambled for, and he was content to be gazed on until a farmer, or rather argenlier, from among his trained footmen took from out a velvet bag other silver shoes and lacked them on, lightly, which lasted until he came to the next group of grandees, and thus, with much ado, he reached the Louvre and was presented to the King. J. C. Paixe. o Common Sense. ARABIAN HORSESHOE AND NAILS. An Arabian Horse-Shoe. Col. J. C. Paine, of this city, kindly loaned us an Arabian loree-shoe, of which the above engraving is a copy, tie has a very unique collection of shoes that were worn by he most famous runners, trotters and pacers in the world dur- I ' Ing the past twenty-five years. The following description ac- companied it: Sax Francisco, July 20, ]8'.i2. I Editor Brekder and Sportsman :—Having been re- quested to allow you to publish a cut of the Arabian horse- phoe and nail, I will add that this is one of the Arabian stal- ion's presented tc General Grant by the Khedive of Egypt, ,fhen Grant was President. It was loaned to me by the party /ho removed the shoes when the horses were landed on jAmerican soil, and was made and adjusted in Egypt, and is imilar to those in use in that country for live hundred years r more. The Arabian smith who manufactures these shoes, while lying
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