CHAPTER XXVII 



GENERAL GRANT's HORSES 



I HAVE understood that Governor Stanford believed with 

 Mr Bonner that thoroughbred blood in the trotter is the 

 essential which makes and breaks records ; that cold blood 

 has not the staying quality of thoroughbred blood, and that 

 an infusion of it is necessary to give suppleness to the knee 

 joints, as well as many other qualities which are desirable. 



* Governor Stanford has been highly successful with the 

 scientifically bred and carefully reared members of his stud. 

 It is said that California, particularly that part of it subject 

 to the invigorating coast winds, is destined to become the 

 horse-breeding district of the nation. That in California, 

 with its twelve months' freedom from such inclement 

 weather that horses need not be closely stabled, not losing, 

 as they do elsewhere, four or five months of fresh air and 

 regular exercise, all the equine aristocracy of America will 

 be found sooner or later.' 



Did Governor Stanford, Mr Bonner, and others breed 

 only trotting horses ? 



' Undoubtedly the horse most in popular favour in the 

 United States is the trotting horse. If he can trot in 2.30 

 so much the better, for then he is sure to have undisputed 



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