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of unserviceable animals, which resulted from the craze for speedy light-harness horses, needed to be stopped. Breeders who have been looking for steady profits to be derived from raising such animals have now pretty generally reached the conclusion that there is too much of a lottery in that branch of horse breeding, and are either abandoning the practise altogether or turning their attention to producing a good average animal, calculated to meet the requirements of business and family life. Of this class of horse, especially of the better types that used to exist on this Coast, there is nowadays a great dearth, and in the light of the present day no other descrip

tion of horse, save perhaps really good thoroughbred stock, is likely to leave a profit on raising.

For some time to come breeders in California will be called upon to exercise the utmost possible care and judgment in the conduct of their business; for unless they succeed in raising animals of real merit, they will not be able to market them at all. The capabilities of the State as a horse-breeding country are practically without limit, but owing to its distance from the large markets, profitable shipments can only be made where the goods are certain to command high prices, for otherwise the cost of transportation would absorb too large a proportion of the re

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turns. It has been amply demonstrated in most parts of the country of late that the common scrub horse is worth something less than nothing, and it is sincerely to be hoped that the lesson has now been learnt so thoroughly that it will not need to be repeated. In the meantime, the country is being purged of much useless rubbish, and men who had no right to be in the breeding business are rapidly getting out of it.

The present year has not proved as auspicious as the one preceding it for California horses in the East, whether in running or trotting events. On the running turf the only horses that have held high place amongst the younger cham

pions of the year have been Mr. E. J. Baldwin's three-year-old Rey del Carreres, by Emperor of Norfolk out of Clara D., and Mr. Naglee Burk's twoyear-old Crescendo, by Flambeau out of imported Janet N., by Macgregor. On the trotting track Mr. Monroe Salisbury's big gelding, Azote, by Whips-Josie, by Whipple's Hambletonian, has upheld the honor of the State. With these exceptions California-bred horses have not greatly distinguished themselves in 1895.

The sales of thoroughbred yearlings in this city are steadily growing in magnitude and importance, and it has been definitely announced that several breeders of reputation in Kentucky and elsewhere.

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have decided to ship their produce to this market for sale next spring. In the meantime, nothing will have been lost by the recent shipment by Mr. Richard Croker, who has leased the animals, of Mr. E. J. Baldwin's renowned California-bred horses, Rey El Santa Anita, four years, and Rey del Carreres, three years, to England, where they are to be matched against the horses of that country, subsequently returning to this State, it is said, to do service at Mr. Baldwin's famous breeding stud, where they first saw the light of day. Both animals

have shown themselves capable of good performances in their native land, and it is to be hoped they will be able to attract favorable

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