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THE CAREER OF BASSETLAW. Hamilton. Int.. June 27.— A stallion thai made a great name :n Hie history of Canadian breeding was lost when Bassetlaw. son of St. Simon Mar-quesa, died al Harry C hidings Cedar c.i re Farm. at Uakvllle. the- week. Basset la w had on both -i,|,-s the blood of couquerlng strains of the English thoroughbred, as his dam was a daughter of the . , il Blair .;,d. He was bred by llw Duke of Portland, and imported as a two-year-old !•• Amer-H He did not race until three, when he w n three races. . One of them was the Jersey Handicap. a mile and a quarter in 2:0K. b atlng Kaniiio. Sir Walter Srott an I others. He also won tbi Sep tember Stakes, oni mile and three-eighths. At the stud In- gol a ■- en number ol winners, though i e ■ I tin high I ■ i - lie was bought by Mr. Hid ding- al am ; -a iu New York to replace WIekhal i i ai ilar Gt re ind proved a gold mine. Though i hit owner had n ■ . t mora than a small band of broodmares, Bassetlaw sired three winners of the K.i;_s pute i r blm St. Base, lb arts of n k !■.,,. . . He was foaled iu 1890, and was eon-sequently twentj four yeara old.
