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COURTIER BEST OF SEAGRAM ELIGIBLES. Kings Plate Candidate Comes from Family That Has Figured Prominently in Canadian Racing. Toronto. Ont.. May IS. — The big chestnut colt. Courtier, which at present appears to be the best of J. E. Seagrams six eligibles for the Kings Piate. was foaled at Waterloo, but he is not a son of any of the Waterloo sires. His dam. Sibyl, had been bred to Paladin when Mr. Seagram bought her at one of J. B. Haggius sales lour years ago and the foal was called Courtier. The purchase of Sibyl was dictated by the fact that she represented a strain of blood tlrat had many distinguished representatives in Canadian racing of a gem-ration ago. Her half-brother. Willie W.. by Princeton, won th" Plate for Mr. Kas Burgess of Woodstock four and twenty years back. In those days the dis tame was a mile and a half, and some years earlier it had been mile heats. Roxaline. the dam of Sibyl, is regarded by some as the most remarkable producing mare Canada has ever seen. Among her progeny wen- Willie W.. Raster. Brait. Fred B.. Princess I/mise. April Fool and Roquefort. Easter won tin- Ontario Derby and eighteen other rac-s up to two miles for Dr. Andrew Smith and Charles Boyle. Princess Louise was first raced by the laic John Forbes, and after being sold for export to this country was known simply as Princess. She IU thirty-eight races. Willie W. won sixteen times lie sides iiis victory in th* Plate. Fred B. won half a dozen -Mid «on»ef#rt -eftcM times, -while B"ait came home first In thirty-three races. In this couutry Koxalines sister. Marian, achieved even a greater record, for she was the dam of sixteen winners of over 250 races, and these include! such clampioiis as Emperor of Norfolk. El Rio Bey and Yo Tambieu. Paladin was imported to New York in ulcro by A. II. and D. H. Morris, and won the Larchmont Stakes as a two-year-old. His turf career was also successful at three, four and five years. His sire. the Hermit horse. Hawkstone. was a full brother to the Oaks winner. Lonely. Courtier is bred to run fast and far and it may be that he will revive the glories of a line that brought so much credit to Canadian racing. Sibyl is not now owned by Mr. Seagram. She was included in his December sale of 190« and was taken for 00 by P. H. Winters of Lacombe. Alberta.
