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j x, CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU DOING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WORK ; J. Montreal, Que., December 25. The Hamilton Jockey Club has transferred three stallions lteid-morc. Stringency and Crawford to the National Bureau of Breeding. These horses are now placed under Itureau rules to aid the breeding industry In Canada. The bureau is exceedingly grateful to the Hamilton Jockey Club for this handsome gift, and especially for an appreciative letter from which the following extract is made: "It is the desire of the Hamilton Jockey Club to assist the bureau in every way possible, and, therefore, the directors came to the decision that thsee horses should be under your charge and will en deavor to increase their contributions to the bureau from time to time. It is a good cause and Canadians will appreciate it in a few years, when th colts commence to develop." Reidmore is a magnificent chestnut thoroughbred and was raced in the colors of William Shields. He won all over the country and was always a game horse. Stringency is one of the best looking thoroughbreds in Canada, and is a valuable addition to the bureau list. Crawford is a horse with a good racing record and will be sent to the west: the other two will ba placed in Ontario. John F. Kyan, the general manager of the bureau, has returned from a trip through New York, New Jersev. Maryland and Virginia. At Washington he got the black stallion Everhardt for the National Dureau from Harry N. Price. This horse is of the strong blockv tvpe, and is a grandson of St. Simon. At Norfolk. Mr. Ryan was otrered the slashing big chestnut stallion ISanyah by Baiinockburn. The horse, however, failed to pass veterinary examination, and was not accepted. In Virginia they are not so strict about racing blemishes which look like ring bones as they are in Canada, and the horse is now at a farm in that state. Arrangements arc beiug made with A. L. Aste. of New York, whereby the famous thoroughbred. Jack Point will be transferred to the Canadian Bureau. This horse was a sterling racer and also won a blue ribbon at the New York show, after his retirement from racing. Mr. It. T. Wilson has promised to donate the chestnut stallion IScaucoup to the Canadian Bureau, and this horse will lie available by May, after a winter campajgn at Charleston. The chestnut stallion Roebuck will -also come to the ISureau in the spring. He is a colt of good con formation and was bred by Mrs. Lillian A. Livingston. The Canadian P.ureau also has hopes of securing Ellisdale. This horse is by Watercress and at present is at Thomas F. Ryans farm in Virginia. "Thoroughbreds are getting scarce in the United, States," savs Mr. Ryan, "and unless something is done to offset adverse legislation, t lie whole breed will be wiped out across the border. Such men as James R. Keene. Clarence Mackay, I. II. Wheat-croft and many other millionaire breeders are going out of the business entirely, or else have moved their breeding establishments abroad. This strikes at the very foundation of the thoroughbred industry, and when the horses now racing are worn out there will be no good on"s left to take their place. It is a singular thing that the United States, which is so up-to-date in nearly every respect, has been so dense in sizing up the horse-breeding situation, and it is also remarkable that just at the time when persons who do not know anything about the breeding industry are ruthlessly slaughtering it, the Inited States army has apparently awakened to the fact that the thoroughbred is the only sire which can produce remounts, and is making all sorts of efforts to get thoroughbreds for the different army pests. Some combination of the breeding interests and tho army might yet save the situation, but it will be many years before the United States gets back to where it was previous to the wiping out of tho New York market for thoroughbred eolts. Nearly every foreign country has profited by the demoralization of the industry across the border France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the Argentine, Australia and Japan have grabbed them at bargain prices. Worst of all, they have taken hundreds of the best thoroughbred horses out of the country, and these, of course, wil never come back, and will be mighty hard to replace after t lit? country awakens to the full realization of the disastrous mistake which is now being made." The bureau has received most encouraging reports of late from British Columbia, where the work Is going ahead by leaps and bounds. One man who nas a ranch near Athabasca Landing writes that breeders are coming from points 200 miles distant lo see the horses, and that . the work is regarded as a blessing at this point. The Okanagan Valley is also going to make good in producing cavalry remounts. The climate is ideal and the food and water is of the best quality. The bureau wil send five more horses to British Columbia in the spring. It now has sires placed as far south as the American lxiundary. west as far as Vancouver and north 110 miles beyond Edmonton. Ten additional horses wil bo placed in Ontario and Quebec between now and February 1. One will go to the barracks at St. Johns, P. Q., another to Bishops Crossing. A good horse will lie placed in Halton and Bruce Counties. There will be a shipment of stallions to Saskatchewan, leaving Montreal about March 15, and another to Manitoba and Alberta about April 1. Many bureau foals are being registered, and in this way an accurate record is being kept of the entire work. Four or live years from now there will be thousands of good hors-es In Canada, nearly all of which will be suitable for cavalry and artillery purposes, and this will go a long way towards solving the English remount problem, and at the same time will bring a lot of money into Canada. There is no end to the demand for thoroughbred sires, and the bureau lias now a waiting list of over 2.000 men who want these horses and who have furnished proof that they are needed. Grant Hugh Browne of New York, is preparing to ship twelve thoroughbred mares from his Brownleigh Park Farm to Canada and will leave them in this country under the eye of the National Bureau of Breeding. These choice mares are all in foal to King Cobalt, the famous thoroughbred sire donated to the bureau by Mr. Browne last fall and now stationed at Halifax. They will be mated back to bureau sires. Six of these mares will be placed on the Island of Montreal on the farm of I. Raymond, and the other six will be quartered ou a farm near Toronto. Tliey will be shipped to Canada by express in nlxmt a week. Their foals will be eligible for the Kings Plate at Toronto and Montreal and for all Dominion-bred fixtures. The well-known stallion. Fort Hunter, has lKon placed at the army barracks at St. John. P. Q. lit? is now a magnificent horse and weighs more than 1.200 pounds. During the coming year the bureau will endeavor to place sires in the neighborhood of every cavalry headquarters in Canada. The Canadian bureaus method of getting at this branch of the work is radically different from that so far followed in the United States and much more successful. Instead of selling or presenting thoroughbreds to cavalry officers to ride in military races and at horse shows, it asks the army men to canvass their districts and select a number of suitable farm mares for a thoroughbred sire. Then a stallion is sent to that county and the cavalrymen see that he is properly advertised and well cared for. In this way many line colts are produced and the army men can have the pick of them. Under the Canadian bureaus system there will soon bo plenty of army horse show material, but they will be half-breds and three-quarter-brods. the same as in Europe. Furthermore, they will be produced by the thousands.
