. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol XVIII. No 9. So. S13 BUSH STRJSET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAH, RANCHO DEL PASO. A Sketch of This Large Breeding Farm, the Home of Salvator, Albert W., Echo, and Other Great Horses. "Who lias not heard of "Ranobo del Paso," the largest stock farm devoted exclusively to the breeding and raising of the finest horses in the world? There opon its 44,800 acres Of rich land may be found the purest types of the thoroughbred as well as the finest prodnoe of the choicest trotting horses that conld be bought
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol XVIII. No 9. So. S13 BUSH STRJSET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, FEB. 28, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAH, RANCHO DEL PASO. A Sketch of This Large Breeding Farm, the Home of Salvator, Albert W., Echo, and Other Great Horses. "Who lias not heard of "Ranobo del Paso," the largest stock farm devoted exclusively to the breeding and raising of the finest horses in the world? There opon its 44,800 acres Of rich land may be found the purest types of the thoroughbred as well as the finest prodnoe of the choicest trotting horses that conld be bought. In its alfalfa paddocks, knee deep in the green feed, are matrons that have become celebrated on the largest race traoks in America, and their fame has become world-wide, in the fields, separated by high fences, are the colts, fillies and geldings which have records to make and names to carve on the roll of victory in the years to come. The large barns on the knolls scattered around the edge of the fields of graiu and alfalfa, contain horses that even a king might crave, and which a "kingdom could not ; In one we saw Salvator, the great stallion that ran a mile in 1:35J, and by that performance wiped out every record that has heretofore been made. There the gallant time-con- qaeriDg hero looks out of the door toward the green fields on the banks of the American river. His clear bright eyes, intelligent head, beautiful form, perfect limbs and powerful quartern proclaim him the greatest horse that ever ran under the wire. In an adjoining stall stands another model of symmetry, faultless in beauty, different in color, not quite so rangy in form, but with the most perfect of legs and feet; while his strong back, perfect head, small ears and beautiful neck, fill the picture of our ideal. Such a horse is Sir Modred, the dark claret bay beauty of Australasia, a fit companion for the lion-hearted son of Prince'Charlie. We pass on and see the other Australian horse Dareb
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