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Lithograph: Stock Farm of Theo. Winters

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Lithograph: Stock Farm of Theo. Winters
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Panorama of the residence and stock farm of Theo. Winters, in Yolo County California. Bottom panel has portraits of the prized thoroughbred stock with their lineage. 28 x 18 1/2 inches.
Theodore Winters was one of the foremost horsemen who founded Thoroughbred racing and breeding in California. Like almost everyone, Winters had gone west because of the California Gold Rush. Once there, he made his money as a businessman and by dealing in gold mining stock. Besides owning a huge spread near the present town of Winters in Yolo County, California called Rancho del Arroyo, he also owned another California farm on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sacramento called Rancho del Rio. On Rancho del Rio, he kept his best stallion, Norfolk by the very great stallion, Lexington.
Meanwhile, in the 1870s, the founder of California's first sporting paper, the "Breeder and Sportsman," Joseph Cairn Simpson, had also come west bringing a few horses with him. The best of them all was his own homebred Illinois mare called Marian. To help finance his newspaper venture, Simpson sold Marian to "Black T" Winters. For years, Winters bred Norfolk to Marian, and almost every one of their ten foals proved exceptional, two among them in particular, Emperor of Norfolk and El Rio Rey. Both Norfolk and Marian are shown on this lithograph. City: Winters State: California Date: HWAC# 81322