Outing . peared, the Amer-ican favorite was received withacclamation. Not since thegreat show of 1892, when Quar-termaster, Chimes, Alcantara,Nutcoast, Haldane, Lavalardand Alcyrene came before thepublic, has this section of theshow brought forth so muchenthusiasm. Mambrino King,for all his twenty-four years,looked as smooth as ever, andcarried his age lightly. His get resemble himat every point in a remarkable degree, histwo-year-old filly, rather strangely named Mi-nola King, out of the Chimes mare, being anexquisite piece of breedy material, that easilytook first prize when shown later by t
Outing . peared, the Amer-ican favorite was received withacclamation. Not since thegreat show of 1892, when Quar-termaster, Chimes, Alcantara,Nutcoast, Haldane, Lavalardand Alcyrene came before thepublic, has this section of theshow brought forth so muchenthusiasm. Mambrino King,for all his twenty-four years,looked as smooth as ever, andcarried his age lightly. His get resemble himat every point in a remarkable degree, histwo-year-old filly, rather strangely named Mi-nola King, out of the Chimes mare, being anexquisite piece of breedy material, that easilytook first prize when shown later by the side of asaddle-horse. The seven-year-old stallion Tre-villian and his get looked more like the accept-ed type of trotting race-horse than the get ofthe older sire, and were most brilliantly shown,the gait throughout being especially pleasingand even, and with a reserve power that in-dicated future honors in the stallion Stamboul was shown heavier* For his portrait, see Outing for June, a. t. kemps hiatoga. and better furnished throughout than he wastwo years ago ; and having great length andsubstance without coarseness, he is in everysense of the term a great stock-horse. It isfrom such superbly conformed and well-bot-tomed animals that whatever is grandest andbest in the American trotter, both as a getter ofextreme speed and as an outcross on importedanimals of heavier type, must come. With themares at hand, and the methods exploited bysuch breeders as the Messrs. Hamlin, there canbe no doubt of the ultimate supremacy of theAmerican horse in the field now occupied byimported material. The gathering together ofthe choicest of the latter and the matine of
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