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SHIPMENTS OF STALLIONS TO THE WEST. Canadian Breeding Bureau Redeeming Its Promise to Reach Pacific Coast This Year. Montreal, Que., July 23. The Canadian National Bureau of Breeding is rapidly pushing its way in a practical manner to the Pacific coast and its promise that its thoroughbreds would be spread from ocean to ocean before Chirstmas will be redeemed. On Saturday a shipment of five fine stallions will be sent to Alberta. One will be dropped off at Irvine, just cast of Medicine Hat, and the others will be sent on to Calgary. One horse will be left there and the remaining three will be forwarded to High Kiver, Edmonton and Macleod. In this shipment is included: Baird, by Huron, by Iroquois, dam Lime-Tree, by War Dance. . Clements, by Albert, by Albert Victor, dam Zete-tic, by Falsetto.. Mcllvain. by Bend Or, by Buckden, dam Sierra Leone, by Khartoum. . Samuel II. Harris, by Sir Walter, by Midlothian, dam Lindula. by Linden. The fifth horse has not yet been decided on, but may be Holscher, by Lamplighter, or King Cole, by Hamburg. Baird is the latest acquisition to the bureau. This well-bred horse is a donation from Algernon Dalhger-Ueld of New York. The national bureau has found a good friend in Irving H. Wheatcroft of St. James Island. B. C. who has over two hundred thoroughbreds. He has promised to donate a "stallion for British Columbia and is also getting other breeders and owners to do likewise. The national bureau, on the anival of the Alberta shipment at its destination, will have horses spread out over, an area of three thousand miles.
