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Mi;adu\viii;ld .Stablks, St. Catharines 



together principally in Toronto and Montreal It would Ik- impossible in the short 

 s])ace which can of necessity be devoted to a sketch of this nature to mention all the 

 superb animals shown i)y l)r and :\Irs. McCoy, but jjerhaps their greatest triumphs 

 have been achieved with Flyer and Ontime, Mikado and Sultan, Cabin Boy and 

 Fortune Teller. They have, however, not contented themselves with winning the 

 highest laurels in the driving classes alone, but are also well known as no mean author- 

 ities in saddle horses. Horsemen will not soon forget The Kajah and Nightflio;lit, 

 two beauties which have brt)ught their owners many a blue ribbon. 



l)r McCoy is not, in any sense of the W(»rd, a man of but a single idea, and has 

 not neglected the more serious ideals of life in the pursuit of a hobby. Medicine is 

 his chosen i)rofession, and in medicine he has won an enviable rei)utation. 



Of North of Ireland ancestry. Dr. McCoy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and 

 received his early education in that city and in St. Catharines. He entered the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto in 1SS.>, graduated in .Vrts in 188!), and finished his medical course 

 in lS!)'-2 After four years of very successful |)ractice in St. Catharines he went to 

 England in 1!)()1. There and in Scotland he studied for four vears more, an<I was 

 admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons, England, in l!)()-2. In 1!)(),3 still another 



