138 CANADIAN TUBF RECOLLECTIONS 



THE LATE WILLIAM HENDRIE. 



* * He was a man ; take him for all in all, I shall not 

 Look upon His Like Again. ' ' 



— Shakespeare. 



To my mind these Recollections would scarcely be com- 

 plete if I omitted mentioning the name of one who for 

 so many years was a central figure on the Canadian run- 

 ning turf ; one who by his high example elevated the sport 

 in the estimation of the people. 



It has been my sorrowful duty on many occasions to 

 note the death of men prominent in politics, in the pro- 

 fessions, in mercantile, manufacturing and social life, 

 but I never experienced keener regret than on the occa- 

 sion of announcing the death of William Hendrie, in July, 

 1906. 



He was a prominent contractor, and as the originator 

 of the railway cartage business in Canada, displayed exe- 

 cutive ability of the highest order — simplifying and sys- 

 tematizing what was before unsatisfactory and unsafe — 

 supplementing it by a rapid, safe and economical delivery 

 of railway freight to consignees. The originator and 

 director of many extensive business enterprises, he was 

 justly entitled to rank one of Canada's greatest captains 

 of industry. 



Separate, however, from all his vast commercial un- 

 dertakings, it is in a different capacity that he is better 

 known to the Canadian people. As President of the 

 Ontario Jockey Club and an honorary member of the 

 English Jockey Club, he was par excellence our repre- 

 sentative turfman. No man in the history of the royal 

 sport ever raced, whether on the heath at Newmarket, 

 at historic Epsom Downs, or at Ascot, who was a more 

 thorough sportsman. His love of the thoroughbred was 

 next to his love for his family. No sordid considerations 



