Lovers of the Horse 



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Shaffokd — TnoRour.HBRED Stallion. Owned by Morris & Wellington. Fonthill 



WILLIAM E. WELLINGTON 



WILLIAM E. WELLINGTON is a Canadian by birth, having been l)orn 

 ill the town of Oshawa in tlie year 1849. Mr. Wellington was educated 

 at the high school in his native town. From his boyhood days Mr. 

 \N eliington showed an interest in the horse, and at the time of writing holds a 

 prominent position in the breeding world. He has been associated with all of the 

 horse shows, as well as the National Exhibition held in Toronto, and his advice on 

 matters of this kind is sought after throughout the Dominion. 



Mr. Wellington took up horse breeding for the love of it and as a pastime more 

 tiian anvthin"- else. Cominy; naturallv to him, he has made a success of breedino; 

 from the beginning. First starting in business as a printer, whicli trade he learned in 

 his native town, he remained at it only three years, when the nursery business 

 took his fancy and he formed a |)artnership at the age of twenty-two with the late 

 ^Ir. Stone. For years the firm known as Stone and Wellington was only a small 

 concern, but rapidly grew until the firm's nursery has now grown from one hundred 



