136 CANADIAN TURF RECOLLECTIONS 



A NOTED OWNER AND BREEDER OF 

 THOROUGHBREDS. 



Mr. Joseph E. Seagram, President of the Ontario 

 Jockey Club, and who for many years was the Parlia- 

 mentary representative of North Waterloo in the House 

 of Commons, is one of the best known men in the Domin- 

 ion. Not only have the brands sent out from his distillery 

 at Waterloo, Ont., made his name familiar from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific, but he is equally well known as a 

 turfman and breeder of thoroughbreds. He has won the 

 Queen's Plate ten times, and since the accession of His 

 Majesty King Edward to the throne, he has landed the 

 coveted honor three times. Some idea of the extent of 

 his turf operations may be judged from the fact that he 

 generally has at his Waterloo breeding farm about one 

 hundred head of thoroughbreds and his string in train- 

 ing each spring, before the weeding-out process has been 

 started, generally numbers about forty head. All the 

 big stakes on the Canadian running turf have at different 

 times been won by his horses, and many important events 

 across the border have also been credited to his colors. 

 For over twenty years he has spent money lavishly im- 

 porting choice blood, both from England and the United 

 States, and though, perhaps, the returns were not always 

 up to what even reasonable expectations might look for, 

 still there was no slacking off in the efforts to secure 

 success. 



Outside of the racing reputation gained by his stable, 

 Mr. Seagram's work as a breeder of thoroughbreds has 

 been of inestimable value to the country at large. The 

 sales by public auction each year of his surplus stock 

 has scattered broadcast over Canada hundreds of well- 

 bred animals within the past fifteen years, and these were 



