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KING COBALT GOES TO BREEDING BUREAU. Montreal, Quo., August 21. Grant Hugh Browne of New York passed through here last week on his way to St. John, N. B., and called on J. F. Ryan to donate the thoroughbred stallion King Cobalt to the Canadian National Bureau of Breeding. Sq good a student of breeding as "Hidalgo" pro nounced King Cobalt the most choicely bred sire in America in an article recently published. "My. idea of a thoroughbred stallion," said he, is one with fourteen Eclipse, fourteen Herod and four Matchem crosses, but I cannot find them, al though I tabulate from two to five stallions every day of my life. The nearest thing I have been able to find approaching my ideal is a horse standing in Orange County. New York, called King Cobalt. He is by Ccsarion. and at the sixth remove he shows sixteen Eclipse crosses, fourteen of Herod and two of Matchem. If he does not get anything else he will produce sound and enduring horses for his owners. "As for his sire, Ccsarion, he Is to mo the wonder of all stallions I have ever heard from as a sire of early speed. Nineteen two-year-old winners in 1000, nineteen more in 1010, and eleven this year; making a total of forty-nine in throe seasons. 1 have never heard of anything approaching him in either Europe or America." King Cobalt is a brown stallion six years old, by Ccsarion, dam Estelle AVhitney. He is a beauty in conformation and will join the Bureau exhibits at the Ottawa and Toronto fairs. As a race horse he made a good record on the New York tracks. IIJ has been at tho Brownleigh Park farm of Mr. Browne at Goshen, N. Y., this season and was mated with a few selected mares. The horseman who has donated this horse to the National Bureau is well known in the United States and in Europe as well as in Canada. On the turf lie has been noted, for doing big things. One thing that brought him into prominence was when he sent live mares to France to lie mated with Flying Fox at a foe of 500 guineas each. On another occasion lie paid 0,000 for the Kuglish steeplechaser, John M. P. AVith this horse he created a furore on the New York tracks and afterward sold him back to England. Mr. Browne is known in Canada as the moving spirit in the British Canadian Shipbuilding and Docks Company, Limited, of which Sir Henry Pel-lat is president and Lieutenant-Colonel Gibson vice-president. This firm has a tender in for the dry dock and yards at Sydney, N. S. King Cobalt is tho best horse Mr. Browne ever owned, and on account of his superb blood lines offers have been made for him by J. E. Madden and others. The French government also wanted him for the bureau of France. On one occasion an offer of 2,000 was refused, and, at another time S15.000 was rejected. Other recent donations to the bureau are Sanguine, by Ornamont; Brown Tony, by Handsome; Frank Navin, by Ben Brush, and the English young ster. Lord Ladas, by Primrose Lad. by Ladas. Capt. Turner Mead has arrived from England with a yearling colt, Malamont, by Flying Fox. dam Mademoiselle do Longchamps, and ten others. Including six yearlings, one two-year-old and three broodmares in foal.
