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JOSEPH E. SEAGRAM 



MR JOSEPH E SEAGRAM has for many years been tlie j)nncipal sujj- 

 portei' of tlie turf in Canada. He rarely has fewer than 100 tlioroughbreds 

 at one time in his stable at Waterloo, and each year he spends thousands of 

 dollars in securing new blood. He has brought to Canada some of the best pedigreed 

 horses the world has ever known. He has invested lai-ge sums of money in securing 

 good American horses. In short, than Mr. Seagram, there has been no greater bene- 

 factor to the thoroughbred horse industrv of Canada. His stable has representatives 

 in all parts of the country, and wherever 

 there is a race meeting it can be depend- 

 ed upon that a representative of Mr. 

 Seagram's enterprise will be among the 

 winners. His success, first of all in the 

 (Queen's Plates, and afterwards in the 

 Kiuir's Plates, is of sufficient renown to 

 make unnecessary any extended reference 

 to it in this sketch. He has won no fewer 

 than thirteen times, eight times, from 

 ISDl to 1S!)S, successively. While many 

 of his plate winners have not gone on 

 and raced, several of them have distin- 

 iruished themselves subsequentlv both at 

 home and abroad. Among these might 

 be mentioned Victorious, one of the last 

 sons of that noble old sire Terror; Joe 

 Miller, who ran one of the fastest races 

 ever run on the turf, at Coney Island; 

 IJon Ino, a winner herself, and the dam 

 of Inferno, winner in 1905; and of Seis- 

 mic, the winner in IDOS. Of the others 

 none have done anything to distinguish 

 themselves after winning the one race, 

 except, possibly, to carry off two or three 

 province-bred races. 



While INIr Seagram, greatlv to the advantage of the horse interests of Canada, 

 has devoted the larger part of his attention to the breeding of ])rovince-breds, having 

 imported many mares with foals in utero both from Great Britain and I nited States, 

 at more expense than any other man in the Dominion has felt inclined to incur, he 

 has also brought into the country many a good race-hor.se, but for whose presence the 

 valuable stakes given bv the Ontario Jockev Club and other Canadian racing associa- 

 tious would have gone abroad. In brief, Mr. Seagram has truly been a pillar of the 



Joseph E. Se.\or,a.m 



