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. . • ; J ; 1 - 1 ; , - 1 - THOROUGHBRED STALLIONS TO BE PLACED. Montreal, Que., March •.— The Canadian Na-, tional Bureau of Breeding is ready for the spring distribution of thoroughbred sires. Many good class horses have been secured during the winter and breeders, who wish to have horses placed with them, should renew applications to I . Raymond, O. ns Hotel, Montreal. Among: the horses ready to go out is Vance Gunrd, a tine. biLT BOO of the former long-distance champion. Advance Ouard. which carried the colors of Carruthers V Shields to victory in many hard f OUgbt races. There is also Valjean. a frequent winner in the show ring; Melton Street, recently donated to the bureau by R. .1. Mackenzie: Angler, the only son of Hindoo in Canada: Hamilton a frequent winner on the Canadian track-: Little Friar. Naughty I.ad and others. These horses have been wintered a 1 the bureau depot in Glen-! garry county and are in liist-olass condition. 1 he hn I dlnfi of remount- has been given a tre mendous impetus by the war. and the fact thai the British government has taken up bureau work, on the advice of Lord Kitchener, shows tin- necessity .! laving thoroughbred blood in the horse breed- in industry. The presentation .a the thoroughbred Anmer to Canada by King George will surel] prove a great siiamliis 10 the work m this country. -I ■ li 1 1 F. Ryan, manager of the Canadian Bureau. win i- Pack in M uitro.il and who ha- been engaged in the work of securing horses for the French gov eminent since September. Bill, says that the great difficulty is the scarcity of cavalry |, rses in the [Tatted States and Canada. Artillery horses are plentiful in both countries, because they are p.. duced in the ordinary course of the horse breeding Industry, but the scarcity of thoroughbred blood, without which cavalry horses cannot In- produced, has caused considerable trouble, in order to carry out a French contract, which calls for artillery and cavalry horses, if js necessary to get the artillery horses in Canada and ihc cavalry horses in Kentucky, Tennessee and California.
