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SON OF COMMANDO A LAUNDRY HORSE. A son of Commando, he the creator of the most brilliant line of native racers we have in America im. the line of the ualieaten Colin, of Celt, of Peter Ban. Pennant. Coquette, Celandria, Embroidery. Peter Quince. Bestigouehe — is today a laundry Wagon horse in Montreal, a difficult town, because of its allllaeas, for a light-draft horse. Nogi is this; fellows name, anil besides being the son of Commando, be is I half brother of Hamburg, win ner of the Lawrence ReaUsatioa Stakes and the Brighton Cup of 1848 and sire of Burgomaster and ArtfuL Hamburg s,,id for .s4. km» as a two-year-old and after that brought 8,488 on one occasion and 878,888 on another i» the tales ring. Nog] was one of Commandos first crop of two-year-elds. Gnat things wire expected of him be-cause of his near relationship to Hamburg. He bad ; 1 I aplenty, but lie proved an erratic performer on the race track and his breeder, James B. Kaene, sold him when he wis three years old. Nogis part baser gi hied him and put him at steeptechaslng, but be failed la the field as he bad fail id on the flat. Finally he came into the pal ■esefcM Of Thomas Love, proprietor of the Montreal Steam Laundry. Lore had beard of the toughness and cudurauce of the thoroughbred, but he doubted the claim of the racers admirers that be could outdo the ordinary cold blooded bane at had work. He bought Nogi for experimental purposus and put him to a laundry wagon without wasting time. And Commandos son and Hamburgs half-brother proved a success from the start.
