RANCH-BREDS AND SHOW HORSES

riftwood (1932, 14:2 hands) was by Miller Boy by the Hobart Horse by John Wilkins (1905) by Peter McCue, out of the Comer Mare by Barlow by Lock’s Rondo. The Comer Mare’s dam was a Thoroughbred from Kentucky. Driftwood was handsome, smoothly and correctly conformed, and fast. Standing 14:2 hands, he was first raced and then was purchased by Ab Nichols of Arizona, who also owned Clabber. Driftwood beat Clabber in a famous match-race, and then Nichols’ son trained him as a rope horse. He could also cut, and his speed