. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, July 15, 1916. Fast Miles at Santa Rosa Track. The fastest mile ever paced by a horse in his first public trial was put on record at Santa Rosa last Saturday when Frank L. Barstow's brown gelding All MeKinney paced a mile in 2:04, and did it so handily that every horseman present believed he could have knocked a second or more off the time had he been called upon for a supreme effort. No pacer that California has produced in recent years has anything on this son of Nearest MeKinney by MeKinney and Mrs. Weller by MeKinney. He
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, July 15, 1916. Fast Miles at Santa Rosa Track. The fastest mile ever paced by a horse in his first public trial was put on record at Santa Rosa last Saturday when Frank L. Barstow's brown gelding All MeKinney paced a mile in 2:04, and did it so handily that every horseman present believed he could have knocked a second or more off the time had he been called upon for a supreme effort. No pacer that California has produced in recent years has anything on this son of Nearest MeKinney by MeKinney and Mrs. Weller by MeKinney. He is an open gaited. level headed, clean limbed horse with more speed than he has ever been asked to show, and so much power and endurance that his mile in 2:04 did not distress him a particle and in fact he jogged back to the stand after the heat like a horse that had not been a mile better than 2:40. Every person at the track pronounced him the best pacer seen in California in years. The quarters of this mile were :32, 1:02%, 1:34. 2:04. a mile nicely rated with the last part of it the fastest. All MeKinney was not touched with a whip during the entire mile and not "lifted" or "hiked" as so many horses have to be when making a time performance. He paced on his Courage all the way and was pacing as though he liked it at the end of the mile. He is a two- minute pacer with any sort of luck beyond all ques- tion, and though he has never been tried at racing, he looks and acts like a race horse. He has an intel- ligent head of fair size without any meat on it. His neck is long and lean ,his shoulders clean and power- ful, he has a good middle and hips, and his legs and feet are about perfect. Each of his four shoes weighs six ounces and they are plain shoes and are evenly worn. He wears no hopples, his only boots being a light pair of heel boots which he never touches. There is no rigging of any kind worn by All MeKin- ney but an ordinary track harness and he is
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