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Sires at Marwyck Ranch Mated With Many Mares Breeders Quick to Accept Offer Of Free Service to Little Shower NORTHRIDGE, Calif., June 19.— Roman Soldier and Little Shower, the stallions quartered at Marwyck Ranch, covered sixty-one mares this year, the latter being the most active. The book of the nine-year-old Little Shower was full. He was mated with thirty-five mares. California breeders desiring to obtain the blood of St. Germans and Frizeur, sire and dam of the stallion, were not slow to take advantage of the offer of Harry Hart, manager of Marwyck, to give free service to Little Shower to approved mares. Roman Soldier, who stood for a fee of 50, covered twenty-six mares. The seventeen-year-old one time handicap star The Nut, who far several seasons headed the stud at Marwyck, is now stationed a few miles away at Rancho Alamo. That nursery recently established by a syndicate of sportsmen of the district, has been a busy place this year. The Nut covered more than twenty mares and a number of horses, were boarded there. Twenty-two foals were dropped at Marwyck during the early months of this year and at present about fifty horses are on the grounds. Approximately seventy acres of the 114-acre place has been converted into vegetable gardens and breeding operations were curtailed somewhat. Manager Hart reports that Blensweep, son of Blenheim II., owned by F. L. Crist-man of Port Angeles, Wash., is still in the Northwest. Arrangements had been almost completed for Blensweep to be shipped to Marwyck for the breeding season, but because of present conditions Cristman decided to keep him in Washington. Every Soldier Has His Duty and So Has Every Dollar— Buy War Bonds!
