. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [December, 1918 In the next stall to Friar Rock is Disguise, the first of the Wickiup sires, and a horse with a great record, but different in many respects from Friar Rock. Friar Rock is comparatively short in the barrel, deep-chested, of tremendous muscular development, a picture of force and power. Disguise is of the rangier type, long in the barrel, fine-pointed—the- living embodiment of speed in a horse. He has already proven himself a sire of great racers, and three of his yearlings now at Wickiup will be going east shortly to jo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [December, 1918 In the next stall to Friar Rock is Disguise, the first of the Wickiup sires, and a horse with a great record, but different in many respects from Friar Rock. Friar Rock is comparatively short in the barrel, deep-chested, of tremendous muscular development, a picture of force and power. Disguise is of the rangier type, long in the barrel, fine-pointed—the- living embodiment of speed in a horse. He has already proven himself a sire of great racers, and three of his yearlings now at Wickiup will be going east shortly to join Mr. Rosseters racing string at New Orleans. A bunch of his weanlings are in the paddock and fourteen mares are in foal to him at Wickiup. On the opposite side of the stable from Friar Rock and Disguise is the stall of Araby, the full- blooded Arabian from whom Mr. Rosseter intends to breed a strain of Arabian thoroughbreds. But there are as yet no Arabian mares at Wickiup. The groom's quarters in the stallions' stables at Wickiup are as remotely different from the groom's stables of olden times as any horseman can imag- ine. A neatly furnished room, furnished better than many an hotel, with two single beds, affords the modern substitute for the tons of straw at the warm side of the stall that served many a groom of many a good stallion even as recently as the days of Disguise's grandsire. Comfort and efficiency are the keynotes of Wick- iup, and beauty has not been forgotten in making the comfort of man and horse complete. The broodmares' stables, up the hill, are as cosy if not architecturally so imposing as the training stables. Then there are the weanlings' stables, near the residence of the superintendent, Mr. George H. Strate, which overlooks the level plain that is now being turned into a model three-quar- ter-mile race track. This track, which will surround a great field of alfalfa, will be railed off outside and inside like any regular track and will have an obser-
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