. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. June 4, 1898] ©ir* $veetuev mtb *§cpjovi#ntcau 443 Speoial Department. [Continued from Page 441.] 1 was greatly disappointed over the outcome of the soap- shots. All of them poor, as will be learned from the cots, those which I was the most anxious to obtain "flat ; The Midlothian—Mies Woodford colt two trials were made( the first was a verj good representation, excepting he was shorn of bis fair proportions by bsing placed too close to the camera. The second being useless it was determined to give the razeed cut a place, inasmuch as it displ
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. June 4, 1898] ©ir* $veetuev mtb *§cpjovi#ntcau 443 Speoial Department. [Continued from Page 441.] 1 was greatly disappointed over the outcome of the soap- shots. All of them poor, as will be learned from the cots, those which I was the most anxious to obtain "flat ; The Midlothian—Mies Woodford colt two trials were made( the first was a verj good representation, excepting he was shorn of bis fair proportions by bsing placed too close to the camera. The second being useless it was determined to give the razeed cut a place, inasmuch as it displays his shoulders, middle piece, a part of his quarters and his legs, and the most careless observer cannot fail to see that so much of the racing machinery as the cut Bhows is of a very high class. Not at all anxious to prophesy, bat if this brother to Som- bre does not prove to be at the top, or very near the top, I shall lose some faith in form and breeding. His sister is rated, by those who paid close attention to the racing here the past season, and who are fully competent to judge, as the best filly of the California year. Not one of those so poorly represented by the cuts, in fact, among all those I saw few, indeed, which did not justify the most rosy'predictiona. Good size—from ]4| hands to 15£— muscular and sinewy, if they are not the making of race horses, real will be forced to the conclusion that breeding, form, size and the other characteristics, heretofore taken as indications of speed and endurance, are, at the best. of small importance in determining the future of racing colts' The frontispiece, Goldfinch, while giving a fair idea of the form of this celebrated stallion, is far from being a "striking ; In the endeuvor to make it better by cutting out a portion of the photograph, the picture is not bo pleasing as the original, though there is enough to show that high. IMP. MIDLOTHIAN—MISS WOODFORD. as bis breeding is—a
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