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| i : 1 , 1 . ■ i | i : , 1 1 • 1 " 5 ; • • " 1 1 • ; 1 - r r " 2 1 1 e • r " a 3 ONE OF CANADAS FINEST » — . Stock Farm of Mrs. L. A. Livingston Pretentious Establishment. ♦- Plant Is Comprised of Three Farms Contain- ing More Than 500 Acres — Buildings of Unique Type — Thirteen Yearlings. ♦-— — TORONTO, Ont.. March 31.— Mrs. L. A. Livingston, who owned and raced one of the largest stable of horses in Canada until her retirement last year, still carries on the breeding of thoroughbreds on an extensive scale at her pretentious Pontiac Farm near Cobourg, Ont. This establishment is not only one of the finest breeding farms in Canada, but will bear comparison with the largest and most completely equipped thoroughbred nurseries of the continent. The visitor to Pontiac Farm cannot miss it as he travels along the provincial highway, a couple of miles east of the town, for the numerous buildings and the main residence, which is occupied during the summer months by the owner, are all painted in the familiar peacock blue, the predominating shade in the stables racing colors. The establishment is comprised of three farms, the home site consisting of 500 acres, while right alongside is a fifty-acre tract, formerly known as the J. B. McCall Farm, and the lake shore property, on the opposite side of the highway and ideally located right on the lake front. The latter farm, which has not been in use since Mrs. Livington retired from active participation in the sport, was the winter quarters of the racing division of the stable and there is a training track located thereon. MAIN QUARTERS. Besides the large residence on the main property, there are four large barns housing the sires, all the mares that are in foal or have already foaled, and all the yearlings. The smaller farm accommodates miscellaneous stock, incuding a few mares that have slipped and ■ few more that were not bred last year. Of the latter quota Dame Courtesy and Fiery Foolery are due to be shipped to Toronto soon, to be bred to the Canadian Racing Associations stallion Fitzwilliam. Upon inspecting the buildings on the main farm one is immediately impressed with the sturdiness of their construction. They are indeed well and truly built and though they have been standing for many years are in an excellent state of preservation and it is safe to predict that they will be there for a good many more years. The barn housing the stallions is reminiscent of the type of construction one can find nowhere but in the old country, where buildings were built to stay. It is not sufficient to refer to the three stalls in this building as roomy ; rather they are spacious. The stallions Kingship, Lovetie and Zeppelin are housed here. Jade, White Tuft and My Star are the only mares that have foaled so far, but Royal Ruby is due daily and several others expected to foal within the next few weeks. All three newcomers are good-looking foals. The ancient Sumac Fire lost her foal. ZEPPELIN DISAPPOINTS IN STUB Blending Beauty is the only mare in the stable that is in foal to the young sire Zeppelin. This stallion, by Colonel Vennie — Lydia Languish, and now in his fifth year, raced with considerable success as a two-year-old and three-year-old, under the colors of his breeder, W. J. Salmon. He is one of the few horses that can boast a victory over the Seagram Stables Gaffsman in this country. Though a fine, upstanding chestnut, of ex- cellent blood lines and, to all indications, a splendid type for breeding, he has not proved a success in his first year of stud duty. The following mares are in foal to the other two sires, Aurora Raby, Dazzling Ray, Light Wing, Simlah, Amelia Jenks and Magpie to Lovetie, and Trash, Mutchkin and Vashni to Kingship, while Magnetine is in foal to either one of these. The stable lost the good mare Pandorina a few days ago, she being found dead in her stall a short while after she had been brought in from outdoors. A broken blood vessel is believed to have caused her death. She was in foal to Lovetie when she died. Following are the mares that have proved barren this spring : Annus Luctus, Skipper, Sotemia, Mollie Pitcher, Fanny Dodge, Dawte, Fiery Foolery and Dame Courtesy. Mary Bud would not breed. Though last years crop of yearlings, all of which were purchased by the newly organized Hastings Stable, was about as fine a band as has ever been turned out at Pontiac farm, the present crop is an equally impressive looking aggregation. There are thirteen yearlings altogether, seven fillies and six colts. If there is a star in the band it is a chest- nut daughter of Kingship, from the Armeath II. mare, My Star. This yearling is a sister to the deceased Sentinel Star, which cut quite a figure in the two-year-old racing of 1925 in Canada. It will be recalled that he died while being shipped to Tijuana for the winter racing season of 1925-26.
