Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-10-14

blossoming grapes. There are
slopes and plains and gently undu-
lating meads for the colts to roam
over, and back of these high
range of mountains, and from the
piazza OF the villa there are
glimpses Of the far-off ocean. The
sun comes over the mountain in
the morning bright and cheerful,
every dew drop diamond, and there
were myriads OF them on the De-
cember day when we were there
in the evening it sinks gradually
into the Pacific, making a path
way which appears to lead TO the
portals of heaven. The soil Is just
what o person would select to rear
steel-limbed, hard. boofed horses
upon, and tho air to give heart
and lungs fall yigor. This is no
fancy sketch.
On that Sunny Slope was bred
and reared Sweetheart. and her
sire also played-a gladsome foal-
in the pastures where the knocking
birds aing all through the winter,
and where, at the same season, the
brook ripples under the shade Of
the liveoaks. Her dam came when
so young that The influences over
came the cold and rigor Of her
birthplace. Her sire Sultan, by
The Moor, grew into the grandest
looking trotting.bred three-year
old which ever graced n track, re-
sembling his blue-blood relatives
so closely that it would take an ex.
pert to detect the coarser strains in
his forE1. This high-bred appear
ance lie endowed his daughter
with, if anything more pro-
nounced, and here we must say, en-
PEASANT, that there has never yet
been first-class performance on
the trotting track which did not
have some of the symmetry of the
thoroughbred.
To sustain very high rate of
speed, goodly proportion OF the
blood which alone gives the true
form, Is essential, aud no matter
whether il comes through remote
channels, gathered together until
it Is the predominatipg strain, or
by some immediate relationship,
1t is aud has to be there. But we
do not write this sketch to lecture
on pedigrees, the object being to
call attention to the sequence
which arises from the natural adj
vantages which California pre-
sents for the breeding of trotters.
Sweetheart, two.year-old, trotted
race of heats of q mile in 2:S12-
1891, and the same week she made
the mile under all the conditions
of the rules-save that her driver,
J. w. jonathan, was is pounds
overweight-in 2,26a.
A hundred watches timed the
mile, besides those who officially
occupied the stand, and the losers
cheersd as heartily es the winners
| at the accomplishment of the feat.
Tie record was beaten four and o
half seconds, and that record had
held the pride Of placs for three
years. In the same length of time
the "rree for alp record has been
reduced three and o quarter Sec
onds, ard that was by successive
stages, while this came Mt one
sweep. 1t would be superhuous to
say more, though in the future we
will give history of the top
notch" FLY, with her pedigree,
| measurements, etc
We entertain no doubt whatever
that tho numerous offspring Of
| Sweetheart's sire now scattered
throughout Southern California,
together with the abundant other
fine strains which lave been breed.
Ing here, will shortly be the cyno-
sure Of all eyes interested in horse
flesh. A region which has already
produced the finest trottiny filiy
ever foaled is surely the most
promising turf centerin the United
States.