. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BOTTOM. The picture represents the narrowest part of the bottom, I a point of the high land extending within a half mil? of the river bank, widening rapidly in each direction. There are many very beautiful views, the timber on the bank of the river forming a pleasing background to the picture, the roll- ing hills, broken into ravines and with many fine old trees which beautify what may be termed the landward side. Very beautiful where hills and bottom join to the east of the cottage and stallion stables, and if anything were needed to complete the view, the
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BOTTOM. The picture represents the narrowest part of the bottom, I a point of the high land extending within a half mil? of the river bank, widening rapidly in each direction. There are many very beautiful views, the timber on the bank of the river forming a pleasing background to the picture, the roll- ing hills, broken into ravines and with many fine old trees which beautify what may be termed the landward side. Very beautiful where hills and bottom join to the east of the cottage and stallion stables, and if anything were needed to complete the view, the summits of the Sierra Nevadas in the far-away distance add grandeur to the prospect. The bottom land has its uses and the hills complete the ad- vantages. The hill paddocks and fields when the grass grows scant supplied with the cut alfalfa, and mares and foals could not look better. The foals strong, full of life, even those which had only a few days of existence ready for a gallop, and the mares, however sedate, from a dozen or more years after having been thrown out of training, ready to join in the sport, especially when near the hour of being returned to their boxes, ruBhing from one side to the other of the field with all the ardor of A PRINCESS ROYAL. The blue bloods on a thoroughbred stock farm are of differ- ent grades. All of the nobility, Kings, Q leens, Dukes, Earls, Marquises, Inrds, Counts and so on, titles earned by long lines cf illustrious ancestors, though once in a while one forces itself into the companionship of those of high degree notwithstanding a bar sinister. Most of the dames of Rancho del Paso have at least sixteen quartering?, but on other places, not so well endowed, occasionally one with a near cold cross will force itself into companionship. Thus the fourth dam of such cracks as Diggs, Sutton, Arbaces and 01 inthus is one of the "said to bees," though there is a strong probability that if the ped. could be extended he flaw woul
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