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NEWS OF THE DYMENT HORSES AT BARRIE. Canadian Turfman Has Bright Prospects for 1006 Horses in Good Condition. Of a recent visit to the establishment of N. Dynient, the wealthy Canadian turfman and .lumberman, at Barrio. Ontario, a correspondent of the Toronto World gives the following entertaining account: "Rrookdale Farm Is most lieautifully situated. To the north of the barns is a fine cedar grove and a clear ltrook, south of the barns Is the mile track. The whole farm slopes to the south and the soil being a light loam makes it a very early track In the spring. At the present time It Is more like a southern or California horse haven. The boys are working about in their shirt sleeves and the sound of the brook reminds one of April instead of December. Trainer Johnny Dyment is always pleased to see a visitor and spares no pains to make a reporters visit enjoyable. After presenting your correspondent with a C"istmas cigar, be proceeded to show his stock, and yon should see Johnnys smile when he introduces you to Klnleydale, Tongorder and Fort Hunter. No wonder he smiles, for they are certainly three horses that any owner or trainer might well be proud of. Tongorder and Fort Hunter are too well known to your readers to need any remarks. Hut for the benefit of a knocker, or two in Toronto let me say Tongorder is not yet drawing a lob-tail car through Barrie, but on the contrary Is looking as well now as he did last spring, and is as sound as a dollar. "Take a New Years tip, you knockers; sell your hammers and make one best let with the money, that Tongorder, barring accidents, will next spring repeat his last seasons performances at Toronto. He came home from Washington last fall lighter by almost 100 pounds than he did the previous fall as a two-year-old, showing the horse was not feeding fight. "Fort Hunter never was as stout as now. His years rest lias brought ills legs back to form, and he Is now going sound and well, and his trainer confidently expects that he will go to the post In the spring fit. "Klnleydale, the new colt purchased In New York, Is a bright bay, stands almost sixteen hands and weighs 1,075 pounds at present. He is not tieshy, but will no doubt fill out this winter. He Is rather a long-bodied colt, and in bis present shape. Is not the equal in appearance of Tongorder or Fort Hunter. But Mr. Dyment was not influenced by beauty when lie purchased the colt. The colts breeding, soundness and past performances were whit brought the price 1,500. He is not so compactly built as Fort Hunter, nor so smoothly turned as Tongorder, but be has the size, muscle, a splendid set of legs apd the will power. In fact, be has rather too much spirit. He Is the highest kicker and greatest buck jumper ever seen at Brookdale, and he gives the strongest armed boy at the stables a merry time during exercise hours. Judging by his feelings, he is enjoying tills Canadian climate, and from present appearances will be a hard nut to crack at Woodbine. "Another Interesting horse at Mr. Dyments stable Is Court Martial, the candidate for the Kings guineas next spring. This eolt has developed wonderfully since last spring, and Is now one of the finest platers ever seen here. He Is a full brother to Flying Bess, and a half brother to Lady Berkeley, two of the fastest Canadian bred sprinters ever raced. Court Martial may be only a sprinter. Johnnys smile wears oft wiien he shows, yon this colt, and points to where his knee and both ankles have been fired. When this colt was shipped home from Woodbine last spring he was perfectly sound, and when the trainer returned home last fall he found It necessary to fire blm owing to the plnheadedness of the man left In charge during the summer. The colt had been overworked. However, the injury done Is not enough to daunt a plucky Canadian trainer, and Johnny feels confident lie will get him to the post next spring, but it will certainly shorten the colts years of usefulness. "Two new colts by The Commoner, both likely-looking candidates for the two-year-old stakes, along with Will King, Big Mack, Miss Morgan and Bella Hamburg, make up the stable. Altogether Mr. Dyment has the most formidable stable he has ever raced, and with so expert a trainer as J. Dyment has proved to be the prospects of the new year for the orange and green looks bright, and no doubt every horseman In Ontario will wish Mr. Dyment a successful year. May he win his share of the stakes, and thus be encouraged to continue investing some of his surplus capital in horses that are a credit to any Canadian or any other owner."
