. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. Xltl. No 18 No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1888. SUBRCHIPTION FIVE DOLLAHS A YEAR. Post and Paddock. "Vigilant" always writes pleasantly, and his notes under the above heading in the N. Y. Spirit of the Times are interest- ing and readable. As nearly candid, too, as a person oan be who has race-horses for the subject. Try as we may it is difficult to overcome favoritism entirely, and any man having worn harness as long as the author of that department of the paper, who is always just in his conclusions, would be a shade
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. Xltl. No 18 No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1888. SUBRCHIPTION FIVE DOLLAHS A YEAR. Post and Paddock. "Vigilant" always writes pleasantly, and his notes under the above heading in the N. Y. Spirit of the Times are interest- ing and readable. As nearly candid, too, as a person oan be who has race-horses for the subject. Try as we may it is difficult to overcome favoritism entirely, and any man having worn harness as long as the author of that department of the paper, who is always just in his conclusions, would be a shade more than human. That ha is an admirer of Mr. Withers goes without saying, and with the characteristics which are displayed by that eminent turfman, who can fail to be an admirer? Persistency, pluck, game—whatever may be the phrase used to exemplify the possession of qualities which Mr. Withers has demonstrated to be the chief points in his form will compel admiration, and there are few elements whioh we value more highly. Joined to the other traits possessed by the gentleman and a pattern is presented whioh younger men can take for a guide and be benefited. We write younger men, for though the example is worthy of imitation by men of any age, it is easier for those who can reasonably hope for years enough in the future to emulate his example, even if luck runs against them for as long as Mr. Withers had to stand the buffets of Dame Fortune and her frowns on his racing efforts. We would like to see the man who would dispute the encomiums Vigilant bestows on Firenzi. Were it the other branch of sport and trotting horses the topic, it would not be necessary to go outside of California to find a brace of dis- putants. But this much to the credit of the supporters of "blue-bloods" there is not so much jealousy as exists in the trotting division, and few, indeed, of the breeders of race- horses who are unwilling to award a just measure of credit to oelebrities outside o
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