At the same time Don Quixote made
application for an apprentice license for young Sancho Panza, who
answers to the name of Allesandro Trujillo, when the _enchiladas_ are
ready.
Panchito, it appears, is a five-year-old, bred by Michael J. Farrel,
whose post-office address is El Toro, San Marcos County, California.
He is bred in the purple, being a descendant of Duke of Norfolk and,
according to his present owner, Don Quixote, he can run circles around
an antelope and has proved it in a number of scrub races at various
_fiestas_ and celebrations. According to Don Quixote, his horse has
never hitherto appeared on a public race-track. Panchito knows far
more about herding and roping steers than he does about professional
racing, and enters the list with no preparation other than the daily
exercise afforded in bearing his owner under a forty-pound stock saddle
and scrambling through the cactus after longhorns. Evidently Don
Quixote knows it all. He brushed aside with characteristic Castilian
grace some well-meant advice tendered him by his countrymen, who have
accumulated much racing wisdom since the bang-tails have come to Tia
Juana. He spent the entire day yesterday telling everybody who
understands Spanish what a speed marvel is his Panchito, while Sancho
Panza, Junior, galloped Panchito gently around the track and warmed him
in a few quarter-mile sprints. It was observed that the cactus burrs
were still decorating Panchito's tail and mane.
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