Identifier: breedersportsma431903sanf (find matches)
Title: Breeder and sportsman
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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ONE lOF THE (PRINCIPAL) STABLES Oakwood Park Stock Farm NEAR DANVILLE, CONTRA COSTA CO., CAL. a* 5* 5* Halftones from Sutisrt Ma^aiuu .
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; S a « >. < -. •«• S. idU ~- o - H O < Z < < in -_09< hOZ December 26 iwa) ®ne gvsc&sv emit gtycvtaxnau 111 Si ;§ SANTA ROSA STOCK FARM BT WM. G. I.AYNG ra^^ 1= V. - ^ ;= -- --• gJT. ^^^ ^^^ = ^^ ^cS^ ^=^< Had anyone prophesied last Christmas that the year1903 would be more notable in the annals of the trottingworld than any that preceded it, the prophet wouldbe looked upon as a day dreamer and be laughed at forhis predictions. Nevertheless such a forecast wouldhave proven correct, for on the title page of this Christ-mas annual are photographs of the heads of three thathave torn down the two minute barrier, and the greatestof these is the young mare Lou Dillon I o8H» the mostmarvelous trotter that ever lived. Had Vanderbilt,Eonner. Stanford, Backman. Rose or a score more ofthe trotting-horse enthusiasts lived to see this feat ac-complished, how eagerly would they have clasped handswith Mr. Billings and congratulated him upon owningsuch a marvelous

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