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: Canadian Horse of Year Dinner To Be Held in Toronto Tonight Photo by Shelburne. E. P. TAYLOR — Owner-breeder of Queens Own. Painting of Queens Own To Be Given E. P. Taylor By Daily Racing Form By FRANK ARMSTRONG TORONTO, Ont., June 2.— Daily Racing Forms fourth annual Horse of the Year dinner will be held at the Royal York Hotel here on Friday evening. Prominent representatives of every department of the turf sport, government and civic dignitaries, together with leading sportsmen, will join in tribute to Queens Own, who was unanimously voted Canadas Horse of the Year in 1954. Breeder and owner E. P. Taylor will be the guest of honor when J. Samuel Perl-man, editor and publisher of this newspaper, presents him with an oil painting of Queens Own, symbolic of the title awarded each year by a panel of turf-writers and sports editors in a poll conducted by DAily Racing Form. Work of Kettlewell Replicas of the painting will be presented to Gil Darlington, manager of National Stud Farm, trainer Gordon Pete McCann and jockey Ted Johnson. The art is the work of C: W. Bill Kettlewell. This is the third such award to a member of the E. P. Taylor stable. The first was Bull Page, a colt who dominated the handicap ranks in 1951. He has since been retired to the sire ranks. Canadiana was Horse of the Year in 1952 when, as a two-year-old, she was the leading money-winner and outstanding performer". r Even- Continued on Page Six • — i MBMTtTTTr""""0 IMHiillliTiiF8™ mill i 1 1 in ■ MBMTtTTTr""""0 IMHiillliTiiF8™ mill i 1 1 in ■ QUEENS OWN— This painting of Canadas Horse of the Year, 1954, will be presented to E. P. Taylor, the colts breeder and owner, by J. Samuel Periman on behalf of Daily Racing Form at a dinner tonight in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The painting is the work . of William Kertlewell, noted Canadian artist. — — — — — Canadian Horse of Year Presentation Tonight Painting of Queens Own to Be Given Owner-Breeder E. P. Taylor Continued from Page One tually she became the richest Canadian-bred of all time, the first to earn 00,000. The filly has won her only two starts in Canada this year and has boosted her lifetime earnings to 60,590. In 1953 McMacken Stables King Maple made a clean sweep of the richest two-year-old stakes, and the accomplishment brought him the well deserved title. The colt was a consistent campaigner last year and a strong contender for the award a second time. Queens Own, three --year-old son of War Jeep — Sea Reigh, by Reigh Count, concluded his 1954 campaign with a record of nine victories in 13 starts. He was second in three other races, one the result of having been disqualified after leading his field in the Seagram Cup at Woodbine. His lone default out of the money was in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct. He was Canadas leading money-maker with 3,360 and has a lifetime mark of 7,610. Queens Owns record is more remarkable because he was never completely sound. He did not race until . October of his juvenile year and returned from New York with a record of one first and two seconds for four starts. At three he won both the six furlongs and mile and seventy yards divisions of the Plate Trial. He was beaten a head in the Queens Plate, when he was considered to be short after having missed a workout due to injury. He won the Toronto Cup, Breeders Stakes, Prince of Wales Plate and Durham Cup at Woodbine. At Fort Erie, he won the Achievement Stakes and Dominion Stakes, and at Long Branch he accounted for the Goodwill Stakes. Serious recurrence of tendon trouble halted Queens Own prematurely and he was taken out of training late in September unable to complete his schedule. Since then he .has been turned out at Windfields Farms. Owner E. P. Taylor anticipates the colts return to competition for the autumn stakes.
