Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-02

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1t was still thirty miles to San Luis,
where they were to pass the night,
and Don Jesuse insisted that canelo
could easily perform it, and so said
the horse in his spirited look and
action. But the Colonel would not
put him to the trial, and, shifting the
saddle to the younger brother, the
elder was turned loose to run the re-
naming thirty miles without a rider.
He Immediately tnok the lead and
kept it the whole distance, enter
ing San Luis on a sweeping gallop,
and neighing with exultation on his
return to his native pastures. His
younger brother, with equal spirit,
kept the lead of the horses under the
saddle, bearing on his bit and re-
quiring the constant check Of his
rider. The whole eight horses made
their 120 miles each in this days ride,
after having performed 40 the even
ing before.
After detention of half day at
San Louis Obispo by a rainstorm,
the party resumed the horses they h d
left there, and which took them back
to Los Angeles in the same time they
had brought them up, thus making
their fl re hundred miles each in four
days, with the interval Of repose occu-
pied in the ride from San Luis to
Monterey and back. In this whole
journey from Los Angeles to Monterey
and matchmaking eight hundred
and forty miles-the party had actu-
ally but one relay of fresh horses the
time on the road was about seventy
six hours. The path through the en-
tire route lies through wild and
broken country, over ridges,
down gorges, around bluffs,
and through gloomy defiles, where a
traveller, unused to these mountains,
would often deem the slow trot i'm
practicable. The only food which the
horses had, except a few quarts OF
barley at Monterey. was the grass on
the road; though the trained and do
mesticated horses, like the canelos,
will eat or drink almost everything
their master uses. They will take
from his caressing hand bread, fruit,
sugar, coffee, and, like the Persian
horse, will not refuse a bumper OF
wine. They obey with the gentlest
doci.ity his slightest intimatlon; a
swing Of his hand or tap OF his whip
on the saddle will spring them into
instant action, while the check OF a
thread rein on the Spanish bii
will bring them to a dead stand
and yet in these sudden
stops, when rushing at the top OF theil
speed, they manage not to jostle then
riders or throw him forward. They
go where their master directs, wheth
er it be leap on the foe, up fligh,
of stairs, or over a chasm. But this is
as true only of the conduct and be-
havior of those horses trained like the
canelos, who vindicate in the mount.
ain glens OF California their Arab ori
gin. They are all grace, feetness
muscle and fire; gentle as the lamb
lively as the antelope, and fearless at
the lion."
Enthusiastic as the Duke OF New
castle was in his praise of the Spanish
horse, the reverend Alcalde is not fal
behind in his panegyrics. l have
heard many of the first American set
tiers OF this country relate feats which
will compare with those quoted, ant
there is not the least doubt Of theil
great capacity for long journeys, and
in time which no other breed coulC
equal on the same fare. Quite mum
ber of the best trotters in California
can only be traced for two genera
tons, and the unknown" mus
either be native or emigrant. Tha
the native is no bad element must bt
conceded, and hereafter l will show
that the first importations were OF .
meritorious class. Yours, O. T.
IN. Y. Spirit of the Times