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stable, and it w as a battle for supremacy between them for the honors of the Canadian 

 turf. In 1!)():! the IJrookdale Stable won the King's Plate for the first time with Thes- 

 salon, sired by (Ourtown. running' second the same year with Nesto, another one bred 

 at the farm. In 1904 Mr. Dyment saw his string head the list of winning Canadian 

 owners. This year he won the plate with Saj)]>er, a despised outsider, while he cap- 

 tured all of the principal open stakes in Canada with Fort Hunter, who had been 

 piinliasi'd the previous fall at a cost of $3,.>()0. This horse won the Buffalo Derby 

 and started in the last American Derby ever run, finishino- fourth after beinjr in front 

 at one time. In 1905, Tongorder was the bread-winner of the stable; and although he 

 did not ecpial the record of Fort Hunter, he won the majority of the open Canadian 

 stakes and finished second in the Buffalo Derby. It was in the fall of 1!)0,5 that 

 Kinleydale was purchased and when he failed to make good, contracting cold at Salem, 

 from which he died, the genial owner only remarked that another one must be secured. 

 The next in line was Temeraire, which was bought for $7, .500, the fall previous to 

 !Mr. Dyraent's death. On the Brookdale Farm there is a mile track over which 

 the Queen's Plate was won by Mignonette, owned by Mr. Roddy Pringle, in the vear 

 1873. 



]Mr. Dyment was a great lover of home, and Ijcluuged to very few .social clubs. 

 His principal delight was the entertainment of friends at his estate in Barrie, where 

 he would show them his string and talk of the races to be run and the races won and 

 lost. He had luativ friends and his loss was seriously felt all over Canada. 



