Lovers of the Horse 



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T. AMBROSE WOODS 



THE love of the horse is an hereditary tendency with T. Ambrose Woods, as his 

 father, tlie late Jolin Woods, pioneer wine merchant and prominent Toronto bnsi- 

 ness man, was also an unusually well-known horseman, and his son, who had 

 every oji]>ortunity to develop his fondness for horses, was not slow to take advantage of 

 his chances in this respect. Although one of the youngest, T. Ambi-ose Woods is now one 

 of the most ])rominent horse-owners in 

 Canada, besides having an enviable record 

 in the show-rings of the United States. 



Mr. Woods, who was born in 

 Toronto, was educated at Upper Canada 

 College, going into business with his 

 father after his graduation, and after 

 his father's death becoming head of the 

 business, which, established as it was 

 fifty years ago, is now one of the l)est 

 known houses in Toronto. 



Mr. Woods maintains his stable, not 

 for financial gain, but for pure love of 

 the sport, and derives his greatest pleasure 

 in schooling and driving his own horses, 

 hunters and harness horses being his 

 favorites, while in his ability to handle 

 the reins he is surpassed by few. 



In 1907 Mr. Woods was married to 

 Elsie Belle, daughter of Mr. A. M. Orpen, 

 of Toronto, whose interest in horses is 

 too well known for comment. Mrs. 

 W^)ods is in j^erfect sympathy with her 

 husband's tastes, and is an exceptionally 

 clever horse-woman, both in the saddle 

 and with the ribbons. She has driven 

 and ridden her husband's horses with great success at many of the horse shows. 



The sensation of the Spring Meet at the Woodbine, Toronto, in 1907 was the winning 

 of the King's Plate, the biggest event of the Canadian turf, by Mr. Woods' horse 

 Kelvin, who galloped home in front of a big field, snatching the laurels from all the 

 big Canaflian stables which devote both time and money to breeding horses for this 

 event alone. 



Kelvin was purcliased by his owner from the late William Hendrie as a yearling, 

 and is royally bred, being by Martimas, the only Canadian horse which has ever won 

 the big Futurity Stakes. Mr. Woods purchased Kelvin more for show j)urposes than 



T. AiiBROSE Woods 



