. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ~'(3@%%S-33T Vol. II. No. 9. NO 508 3IONTG03IERY STBEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 3. 1883. SUBSCRIPTION F1VK DOLLARS A <fW|fexWclx ?r Wi ALONZO HAYWAKD. OWNED BY HENRY PIERCE. "Why, lie is as handsome as a picture," is often the re- mark of those who are looking at a horse which comes up to their conception of what ahorse should be. We have often regarded it as a vile slander when a majori- ty of pictures were the comparison, and even many of those which were the work of artists, deservedly ranking high in the profession as delineators
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ~'(3@%%S-33T Vol. II. No. 9. NO 508 3IONTG03IERY STBEET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 3. 1883. SUBSCRIPTION F1VK DOLLARS A <fW|fexWclx ?r Wi ALONZO HAYWAKD. OWNED BY HENRY PIERCE. "Why, lie is as handsome as a picture," is often the re- mark of those who are looking at a horse which comes up to their conception of what ahorse should be. We have often regarded it as a vile slander when a majori- ty of pictures were the comparison, and even many of those which were the work of artists, deservedly ranking high in the profession as delineators of equine form, are somewhat wide of the mark in presenting the real configuration and appearance. While it is not very good taste to be so contin- ually "blowing our horn " in regard to the merits of the pictures that appear in the Breedebaxd Sportsman, they are certainly entitled to praise, and as that is earned by the de- lineator and the workmen who transfer from paper to metal it is not so bad. The horse is given and not the imaginings of some one who can hardly tell a horse from a mule, and we have not the least hesitation in claiming that, as a whole, the series has never been equaled in any journal, American or foreign. There is an individuality, a catching of the expression as it may be termed, for horses as well as men are distinct in this respect, and no matter how closely they resemble each other in form there are differences which our artist is extremely happy in discovering and reproducing in the sketches. It is unnecessary to revert to the family from which Alon* zo sprang, on the paternal side, as the history of the Hay- wards was presented only a few weeks ago. That he is not an unworthy scion is proved by bis performances, and his form as is shown by the portrait is capital. He is not only a large horse when the standard and tape is brought into requisition but he is also a "big horse for his ; Immensely powerful all over, bulk of mus
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