. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. -• POSCORA HAYWARD. Owned by Newland & Pumyea, Oakland, Cal. We must acknowledge great pride in the portrait gallery of the Breeder axd Sportsman. The twenty-three illustrations are not only works of art, they are as nearly exact representations of the horses por- trayed as can be, and thea it is something of which the -whole people of the State may be proud when the evidence is so di- rect of there being so many horses of high form in the pro creative ranks. Not by any means that the illustrations ex- haust the *' notabilities " of the Coast, as there
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. -• POSCORA HAYWARD. Owned by Newland & Pumyea, Oakland, Cal. We must acknowledge great pride in the portrait gallery of the Breeder axd Sportsman. The twenty-three illustrations are not only works of art, they are as nearly exact representations of the horses por- trayed as can be, and thea it is something of which the -whole people of the State may be proud when the evidence is so di- rect of there being so many horses of high form in the pro creative ranks. Not by any means that the illustrations ex- haust the *' notabilities " of the Coast, as there, are a large number still awaiting to be enshrined, and when the job is fairly, underway (it never can be completed) this country'will present the most convincing proofs of the superiority it has so firmly established of its advantages for the breeding and rearing of fast horses, and fine ones,|too, of every description. The subject of the present sketch has always been a prime -avorite of ours. From the first time we saw him move when a colt the as- surance was felt that he would make a very fast one, and this estimate he has corroborated, notwithstanding anA" amount of bad luck and quite a long chapter of accidents. As has been the practice heretofore in writing these sketches, the family from which the animal sprung has been given a due share of attention. This is manifestly proper, as all breeders are aware that the ancestry has a great deal to do in marking the character of the offspring—even the re- mote ancestry, as the cases of reversion for several genera- tions are so well established as to be accepted without further argument. People en- when they think that the merits of sire or grandsire will make amends for shortcomings in the animal which it is the intention to use, but when there is individu- al merit " backed " by sterling qualities in the progenitors, the risk attending the first stages of breeding is reduced to a minimum. In the case of Po
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