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. . ■ WELL-EARNED AWARD— Triangle Publications, Inc., honors E. P. Taylor, whose Bull Page was voted Canadas horse of the year for 1951 in Daily Racing Forms annual Canadian poll, at a dinner in Toronto tonight. One of the highlights of the affair, which will be attended by the Dominions leading turfmen, will be the presentation of C. W. Kettlewells painting of the champion to Mr. Taylor by J. Samuel Perlmon, publisher of this newspaper. Painting of Bull Page, Canadas Horse Of Year 1951, to Be Presented Tonight i Owner E. P. Taylor t6 deceive4 Picture, Executed by Well Known Artist,C.W.Kett1ewell By FRANK ARMSTRONG Staff Correspondent TORONTO, Ont., May 22.— Edward P. Taylor, who is recognized throughout America as one of the foremost patrons of the thoroughbred sport, will be guest of honor at Daily Racing Forms first annual Horse of the Year dinner to be held tomorrow night at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Last year Daily Racing Form extended to the Dominion, a popular policy which has been in existence for several years in the United States, whereby an oil painting is presented to the owner of the champion, selected from a poll of turf writers and racing experts. Bull Page, five-year-old son of Bull Lea — Our Page, by Blue Larkspur, was accorded the honor in Canada for 1951 in an unanimous vote of daily newspaper turf writers and the experts of the Daily Racing Form staff. Bull Page, a 8,000 yearling at the Keeneland sales, proved an outstanding performer during his four-year-old campaign in Ontario and accordingly was chosen as horse of the year. The oil painting is the work of a noted Toronto artist, C. W. "Bill" Kettlewell and will be presented to E. P. Taylor by Daily Racing Forms publisher, J. Samuel Perl-man. It is fitting that E. P. Taylor should be the recipient of the honor in this first Canadian Horse of the Year poll, which henceforth will be an annual feature. There is no more ardent patron of racing, no more enthusiastic breeder, and none with quite the sincere devotion to the improvement of the breed and the turf sport in the Dominion. Since the late 1920s when he first campaigned a modest string under the nom de course of the Cosgrave Stable, he has formulated plans for a thoroughbred empire which has now assumed proportions surpassing anything of the like in the history of Canadas turf sport. Always a breeder on a minor scale when racing his Ismail stable, he broadened "his scope gradually and later the nucleus of a powerful stable was .recruited from the yearling marts at Keeneland and Saratoga where he was a lavish buyer and more recently at the Canadian sales where his bidding created record high prices. Taylor horses raced with a degree of success in accounting for rich stakes offerings but their eventual destiny was for the breeding ranks. Most of them today will be found at his opulent Windfields Farm, a spacious tract at nearby York Mills, adorned by the most modern broodmare barns and stud barns in the country, roomy paddocks and rich grazing grounds. In addition to Windfields, Taylor conducts the National Stud Farm, which was founded when he acquired the : ■ ► Oshawa breeding establishment of R. S. McLaughlin, venerable turf patron, who retired from active participation a few years ago. At Windfields and at National Stud Farm will be found the most fashionable thoroughbred bloodlines of America, England and France, and, of course, the best of the Canadian strain. Including the foals of the current season the census of the Taylor thoroughbred empire exceeds 150. There are 48 mares at Windfields, 43 of which foaled this season. Six stallions stand at National Stud and four at Windfields. Taylor is a dyed-in-the-wool horseman. Despite his mutlitudinous business interests, and to the amazement of most everyone, he, somehow or other, manages to find time for personal supervision- of his farms and racing stable. He has 33 horses in training this year, and youll find him at the track during the training period of the early spring season, stop watch in hand, timing the trials of his own horses and of rivals. Contrary to the opinions of the uninitiated, Taylor has no desire to corner the thoroughbred market in the province of Ontario. His intent is only to improve the breed and the standard of racing. To know him and talk "horses" with him is sufficient to bring about an understanding of his deep-rooted love of the thoroughbred and his hyper-enthusiasm for the turf sport.
