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a 1 ... IllilliMl - **3,iiji PIIPIP$ ■■•::™%: JHilllllllllgflil "■ ..-... and * „L_ a i , I j | ! l ; . ; . . Roosevelt Texas Ranch Still Active in Breeding Wife of Colonel Carries On Work at Dutch Branch FORT WORTH, Texas, June 16.— While Col. Elliot Roosevelt is engaged in combat duties on the Tunisian front, in command of a photographic combat unit of the Allied air fighters commanded by General Doolittle, his wife, the former Ruth Ooo-gins of this city, is supervising the development of the pretentious Roosevelt ranch home, Dutch Branch, at Benbrook, close to Fort Worth, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt visit on occasions. Mrs. Roosevelts chief concern, next to running the household and raising her three children, not forgetting multitudinous charity and home defense duties, is supervising the large group of pure-bred Arab horses, the nucleus of which Colonel Roosevelt acquired before he joined the Air Corps and departed for overseas. Mrs. Roosevelt also arranges for the care of the large herd of blooded Hereford cattle, and the numerous sheep and goats on the ranch, which sprawls over a considerable part of the countryside near Benbrook, and on which is one of the prettiest homes in the state. The corrals for the Arab steeds — and Colonel Roosevelt, by the way, is close enough to the original home of many of the ancestors of his spirited animals to enlarge the scope of his knowledge of Arab stock— are modern, and the stallion quarters are the last word. Many outside mares have been brought to the Roosevelt ranch for breeding this year. The schedule is kept up to date by Mrs. Roosevelt. Several thoroughbred mares- were bred to Arab sires and some of the young horses have been sold. Most of the Roosevelt foundation stock came from the famed Kellogg group at Pomona, Calif., but the activities at Dutch Branch have been progressing now for several years and there are a large number of 1943 Arab colts and fillies on the place. Mrs. Roosevelt never desires to sell any of the youngsters. "When you raise them, and become quite attached to them, for they are the gentlest things in the world, it is quite a wrench to part with one," she says. Mrs. Roosevelt rides over the ranch almost daily, on her personal Arab mare. " y MILTON RIESER— Just for Fun, winner of the opening race on yesterdays Lincoln Fields program, was saddled by the Kentuckion.
