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BOTANIST DONATED TO BREEDING BUREAU. Montreal, Que.. July 9. The Canadian National Bureau of Bn-eding lias secured the thoroughbred stallion. Botanist, and this horse is iyW en route to Montreal, whence he will be shipped to Home farm In the Province oE Quebec not yet decided on. There are no many men after this horse that it is u easy matter to select the best location. ISotanist will lie one of half a dozen thoroughbreds which the bureau will exhibit at fairs and horse shows. He may not lie the best stallion in the bureau, but he is nevertheless an excellent type of thoroughbred. Botanist was bred by Huntley and Logan at Mon-niotta .Stud. Danville. Ky.. and was foaled in 190-1, so that lie is now only five years old. He is a rich brown in color arid is a horse of great substance and bone. The bureau is striving all the time to get horses which combine substance with quality and ISotanist is one of this kind. Not only is he a fine individual, but he is stoutly bred. His sire is Boanerges, a son of Spendthrift, the sire of Hastings and by Australian out of Aerolite, by Lexington. Boanerges was a great race horse himself and was out of Llandrinio, an imported English mare by Hie Arrow, out of Goddess. The dam of ISotanist is iMay B. II.. by the famous Bramble, which was by Bonnie Scotland, out of Ivy Leaf, by Australian. The dam of May B. II. was a Longfellow mare and her dam was Sally Newton, by John Morgan, a son of Spr.ingfield, out of Lady Marr. by Scottish Chief. Following is the record of Botanists racing career: Botanist, br. h. 1904, by Boanerges May B. II. Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. Won. liMMj -J, 17 5 1 4 7 ,195 1907 3 23 7 4 2 10 3.180 VMS 4 37 11 5 S 13 0,72.1 1909 5 9 2 1 1 5 550 Totals 4 SO 25 11 15 35 4,450 The big bay stallion, Samuel II. Harris, by Sir Walter, out of Lindula. by Linden, by Longfellow, donated to the bureau by P. II. Sullivan, of New York, will be sent to Alberta with a consignment of horses which is being made ready and which, when placed, will carry the practical work of the bureau as far west as High River, forty miles west of Calgary anil well up in the Rocky Mountains. Samuel H. Harris is a lilg thoroughbred and stands over sixteen hands.- The national bureau started out this year to reach the Pacific coast before Christinas and it looks now like a certainty that it will succeed. Reports from the different districts where stallions have been placed are all of a glowing character.
