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THE THOROUGHBRED POPULAR IN CANADA. Montreal, Que., November 6. Coincident with the troubles of the turf in the United States, there has been a thoroughbred wave In Canada In the past, few months, which lias sweiit from Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic coast to St. James Island, which is thirty miles out from the mainland of British Columbia, in the Pacific Ocean. The fact Unit ninety-six of the Milton Young thoroughbreds are going to British Columbia, is one worth pondering over and the purchase Of forty-odd thoroughbreds by an hitherto unknown farmer ndt far from Montreal shows the trend of turf affairs. What is Kentuckys loss Is looked upon as Canadas gain. The fact of the matter is that Canada has been crying aloud for the thoroughbred. The Canadian National Bureau of Breeding, which, was started only a few months ago. lias already ia waiting list of 201 farmers, hailing from counties from coast to coast, and all of whom want thoroughbred stallions and are willing to do anything within reason to get them-. Of course it will take manr months to supply this demand, but the bureau is doing thebest it can and is placing stallions as fast as they can be secured. The Canadian farmer and breeder has at last opened his eyes to the fact that ithere is no money in mixing up trotters, pacers. Clydes itnd hackneys. He is beginning to see the profits of the thoroughbred cross. And as another incentive the buyers of the English, war office remount department ar traveling through Canada encouraging farmers to breed a type of cavalry .horse and showing them unmistakably that there is a ready market. Colonel R. J. McLaughlin, the representative of the war office in Canada, has just reached here on a trip from the coast. He says that there are not "more than 200 perfect icavalry -horses in Canada, and that not more than 1.000 of ordinary troopers could be secured on short notice, fie halls the National Bureau as a blessing and as the only means of securing an imperial cavalry reserve. lie lias personally-selected several bureau stallions, and these wllPbe sent to men whom lie knows- iu Alberto. Other stallions are lHing prepared for shipment to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and some thoroughbreds will be pur-erased -fc San Francisco and Ixs Angeles this winter for shipment to British Columbia. The call for thoroughbreds from the maritime provinces has been .lust as heavy as from the west and many requests have been received from Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The letters of tliese applicants show that there were scarcely any thoroughbred stallions at service- in Canada prior to the establishment of the bureau and also that at least 5C0 horses should be distributed. It will take five or six years to complete the work.
