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There, he dons his white leather "Wyoming lace" (chaps), climbs on a horse and pitches in. Better than anyone else on the ranch, Bob knows when a steer is as fat as it will get and should be shipped, or when a cow has begun to fail as a calf-producer and should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim...
...would their only child, Helen, 20. Yellow-haired and attractive, "Helenita" can cut out a cow as fast as a vaquero, and spends all the time she can doing it. To her it's "like baseball every...
Horseplay. With the same sure breeding hand, Bob went to work on the ranch's cow ponies. There were both thoroughbreds and mustangs with-legend has it-a strain of blood from one of Jesse James's fastest horses. The story goes that James stopped at the ranch one day and found his horse so much admired that he gave it to the ranch...
...carefully culled; only the best were kept on the ranch. (Once, 1,200 mares that didn't come up to Kleberg's standards were driven into Mexico and given away.) Out of this selective evolution came the famed King Ranch quarter horses. Though they are primarily working cow ponies, one of them was good enough recently to sell...
...colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie would make crack cow horses." In the words of a cattleman, "cow horses can start fast, turn on a dime and give you 9? change...