CHAPTER XXVII. 



GENERAL GRANT's HORSES. 



I HAVE understood that Governor Stanford believes 

 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, par- 

 ticularly that part of it subject to the invigorating 

 coast winds, is destined to become the horse-breed- 

 ing 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 Aristoc- 

 racy of America will be found sooner or later." 



Do Governor Stanford, Mr. Bonner, and others 

 breed only trotting horses? 



" Undoubtedly the horse most in popular favor 

 here is the trotting horse. If he can trot in 2 130 so 

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

 sway as a race-horse, especially in the small West- 



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