111115 cheery group of lassies - 3,; Scottish ladies curling team ,assembled prior, to take-off ‘mm Prestwick ‘airport. Now
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. of several outstanding Standard- 3,-ed and Clydesdale stallions. gm. CHURCH
Back in those days, everybody owned a driving horse and there was keen rivalry between the various owners. It was quite a sight, then, to go to church on a
”:;’sunday, and to watch these own-
" ers drive up with a flourish that ‘is practically extinct today.
A wen, anyway, the College need- ed a new Standard-Bred stallion and Dr. Cumming heard that captain Aubrey, a stallion which -John Richards, of Malpeque, had purchased in Ohio, was available foi*~p,11I'ChaSe from a group of horsemen, headed by Reg. Sterns who had bought this stallion from
«the Richards estate.
The Doctor, accompanied by
’ James A. Fraser, then Editor of the Eastern Chronicle, went over
" lo’ the Island, I met Mr. Sterns and his group, ’went out and saw “some of the colts which Captain Aubrey had sired, and ended up Iirby paying $6,000 for Captain Au- ““‘brey and bringing‘ him back to the Nova Scotia Agricultural Col- -lege, where he stood for 10 years.
GREAT SIRE “Captain Aubrey had a great breeding record behind him,” said Dr. Cumming, “and, I be- lieve, he was one of the best hor- ses ever imported into the Mari- ‘ times. In fact, I recall some time "ago, when Colonel Dan MacKin- ,’ Iion was interviewed over Radio 1: Station CJCH, that he mentioned “'''that it wasfa, great disappoint- ment to Island horsemen that ‘Captain Aubrey ever left the Is- land.” W ‘To get back to Captain -Aubrey and the NSAC. The first year he __,stood at the Agricultural College, ', he serviced’ 119 mares at a ser- I vice fee, of $25.00 and, during the ‘l first few years, the stables at Truro were literally filled to ca- , pacity withmares sent by own- ll eis who wished to secure a colt { sired by Captain Aubrey. An.of- .. fer of $5,000'was received from ——Ohio for the loan of Captain Au- ___brey for one year, but so great was the demand for his service that the College could not see its way clear to release him. FAMOUS SON— ‘_ For the next few years, Aubrey l ‘colts dominated the tracks of the { ‘Maritime Provinces. Probably, hismost famous son was the re- nowned Bill Sharon, -a performer sold to parties in United States for the equivalent of $28,000 in Canadian funds. Bill Sharon, I as-many will remember, was a great “free-for-aller.” He had the reputation of being“ a bad actor and rather hard to handle, but he certainly was a colourful perfor- V mer. At _one time, Bill Sharon - carried the colours of Dr. D. H. -cAllister of Sussex, N.B., on time tracks, and wherever raced, Bill Sharon gave the jd something to talk about. I s not a show horse, but he «speed to burn, as his rec- ‘2 04 indicates. Captain An- ,ad— 21, record of 2.071/4. ‘FOR COLLEGE ’ Iloaft think that we [ever Ything at the Agricultural , that ever popularized the illtion so much as the pur- of Captain Aubrey,” said llmming. “Why, the people from far and wide to see tallion, and, certainly, the at he was standing at the cultural College was tremen- “,513' appreciated by the horse- "' pf that era. I believe that alll Aubrey was the most .._“S of all the Standard-Bred to
a Scotia. '
I h_ °l1_Ilg, fellows, today, with id?’ hlgh-Dowere.d_cars, have no Ma what a thrilling experience
W (51611 to be to sit behind a snap- ummflng liorse,” continued Dr.
halfmlng. nor‘do they exhibit
-of thus much pride in ownership earl. e1_I' conveyance as did a man
3’ 111 the century in his driving
{[359 and rig. It was a wonder- e1.a_.. .
“YD Ac MARE fir ICS“PD9Se."‘, we inquired of er'Ca“§“_n1111§, ‘that you consid- famoup am Aubrey was the most ever 5 Standard-Bred that you A 1,. Owned at the Nova Scotia V . 5‘ mllltural College?” .. W0)1Wel1y’’ replied the Doctor, " ‘hat Alf? “O13 so so far as to say ‘ rec ‘H €91‘ 311. I have a very fond 0 ection of a fine show ‘mare
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touring Canada,_ the distaff ex. ports in the roarin’ game are the first all-female team to repiresent Scotland abroad in curling his-
‘Lillian Allerton’ that I used to drive at Truro._ I consider Lillian Allerton almost in a class by her- self. She was a real show mare and one of her colts, by Captain Aubrey, won first in the two-year- old class and championship hon- ours at the Royal Winter Fair. This, of course, is another story.” TWO GUN ‘
Captain Aubrey, 2.07%, was purchased by the Hon. John Ri- chards, Bideford, P.E.I., at the Old Glory Sale in New York in 1913. I was present and heard Al Thomas state that if he were bred to mares by Constantine, or similarly-bred ones, he would be a very successful sire. Al Thom- as was a“ rider of the plains,” handling the s_tage coaches that crossed before ‘the building of three Union Pacific Railway, and he was a dead shot and carried a revolver on each hip.
Helena Constantine, by Con- stantine, was brought to the Mar- itimes and she produced Peter Pokey, 2.06%, that still holds the trotting record at Fredericton 2.07 And Captain Aubrey’s,blood flows through many of our best trotters and pacers. His greatest son was Bill Sharon, that was bred by Sam Boyle of Moncton, N.B., and driven by Bill Sharon, after whom he was named.
CLEAN SWEEP
In 1919, he made a clean sweep of the trots in the Maritimes. In 1920, won from a field of pacers on September 21 at Fred- ericton at 2.11%, 2.121/2 and 2.11%. He had previously won at Char- lottetown, but it was his perfor- mance at Woodstock, New Bruns- wick on the 8th of October when he won the free-for-all trot and pace, purse $1,000, with -1-1-1, Lady Grattan (Keyes) 2-2-2, Fern Hal (Cameron) 4-3-3-, Zom Q. (ne- vers) 3-4-4-; Ben All dis., times 2.11%, 2.12 and 2.12%. It was a cold afternoon and a heavy track. Fern Hal and Zom Q. were the top winning pacers that season in the Maritimes and Maine, re- spectively. , ,
T0, GRAND CIRCUIT, . _
Thomas W. Murphy, leading driver on the, United S t a t e s Grand Circuit, always on the lookout for new speed, learned of the Maritime trotting marvel, Bill Sharon, and he made a trip to the Maritimes and bought him for what was then the equivalent of $27,000 in Canadian money Bill Sharon raced the Grand Cir- cuit and took is record there, but there was one horse he could not beat, and he met him in all the big stakes in which he was entered. That was’— Peter.the Brewer, 2.021/2, sire of Calumet Budloiig, 2.02%, that was a promi- nent sire at the farm of Frank McKay, East Royalty, P.E.I. The yearbook shows Calumet Budlong as the sire of 18 trotters and 91 pacers (one in 2.00, two in 2.05).
Hunters’ Corner
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be fresh. The first news item that caught my eye had me puzzled for some minutes. The track of a
a snow white coat with the excep- tion of a black tip on their tail— showed it was carrying a rather large dinner menu that it dragg- ed under an uprooted windfall. HEAVY LOAD
Four or five inches _on its right there were regular wisp like in- dentations on the snow; on its left every foot or so there were marks at regular intervals like. as if one made three inche long marks on the snow with the tip of a finger.
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tory. The above photo was received from Scotland yester- day by J. Finley MacLeod.
I finally figured it was red squirr- el he had caught for dinner but wasn’t really certain till I back- tracked and found where it had been dragged out from under an old pine stump. This weasel, er- mine really, had carried a load heavier than itself for over two hundred yards and had never once set it down to rest.
. Racoon had moved freely dur- ing the night along a creek that flowed below a beaver dam. An old boar coon, with a foot-print half as large as a man, had sat on a log and fished something out of the mus—~a frog most likely- and a, fox whose small, dainty tracks told it was a vixen, tried to bluff Mr. Coon out of his tasty tid- bit. A coon doesn't bluff easily. He’d make lunges at her and his’ feet made hugh, splay marks on the snow. She’-d jump aside and bait him on some more but finally tired of the game and went on about her business. I SWAMP CENSUS
I made a pretty ‘accurate count of the number of grouse in a special swamp and figured at least three pair of foxes inhabited the woodland travelled. In late afternoon I came to a beaver dam nestled in a setting of green spruce. The cushion of soft show made travelling silent but I was extra cautious to approach this dam under cover. One never knew What t0 expect in such a situation. I have surprised two legged fish- ermen under like circumstances. {got a _surprise. a pleasant one I ll admit, a four footed fisherman was at work. Twenty yards from the spillway that filtered’ over the embankment was a small patch of open water about three feet long and six or eight inches wide. .
Peeking from behind a screen of spruce I espied a large mink sniffing at a small patch of dis- coloured snow. He was savouring the auroma of a satisfying tid bit just eaten. As I watched he slipp- ed quietly into the water. There‘ was no splash or ripple. He clove the water as clean as a knife. Maybe sixty seconds later he was back on the ice, with a four or five inch trout in his mouth. ' Half squatting on the ice he held the trout between his fore paws and ate it. I could hear its teeth grind- ing just like a cat chewing down a trout head. After the trout dis- appeared he sniffed the snow sur-
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afternoon, skip Toim Tod!‘ gambling with extra weight on his last rock, gave Northern Ontario a stirring 7-6 victory over Prince Edward Island.
The gamble came in the final end of the 10th round match as Tod and his Fort William crew were trailing 6-5.’ Tod put more weight on the final throw, slic- ed a P.E.I. rock out and two bitters remained to give him a deuce: ’
The loss dropsped the P.W.C. rink into second plllace wiitlh seven wins and two defeats.
In other afternoon maohes On- tario and Nova~Scotia picked up their sixth wins. Ontario downed British Columbia 14-11 and Nova Scotia tripped Quebec 9-6 with a rally in the last. two ends.
Manitoba won its fourth in nine starts by dowming Newfoundland
‘ 7-5 and Albertadissolved a fifth
place tie with Saskatchewan by downing Fred Hansen’s Maple Creek quartet 7-5. For Newfound-
their 10th. They had the bye Fri- day night.
Th e Prince Edward Island- Northern Ontario match. was a knockout c a n n o n a d e. Fast, swingy ice gave both rinks trouble in the first four rounds.
The Islanders overcame a. 3-1 Northern Ontario lead in the fifth when Prince Edward Island skip Art Burke drew nicely through an outer barricade. T-od’s last was heavy through the same [hole and Burke rolled in off a guard to count two. I > TIED SCORE 3-3 ‘‘
That tied the score at 3-3. Prince Edward Island picked a single with a. last rock in the sixth but Northern Ontario struck for singles in the seventh and eighth
face in search of stray morsels. Again he dived in and again came out with a trout about the same size and the same performance was repeated. .. .
HAD DINNER
The third time he went under the ice I waited several minutes and he did not re-appear. Think- ing he had gone elsewhere I stepp- ed from behind the bushes without glancingaround. I was too late.
the open hole near the spillway and was eating a trout on the bank. He went under like a flash and that’s the last I saw of him.
the number of trout caught and eaten. I saw three that were caught and he had consumed at least one before I arrived. Mink are great fishermen but are also fond of frogs and rabbits. Muskrat are also killed and eaten. A cold moon was rising over .the spruce as I headed carward. It was a most satisfactory and enlinghteIi- ing jaunt. .
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to regain the lead. . In the ninth a double takeout by Island vice-skip Allison Saun- ders set the stage for a P.E.I.' deuce and a 6-5 lead. ‘ «Théy games on other sheets had finished by then and fans as well as members of other rinks pressed every vantage point to watch the final end.
Tod switched strategy, got his front men to post two bitersflthat were eventually to mean vidtory. A pair of guards well in front gave the Islanders trouble. Burke managed to eliminate one counter with his first delivery but T old replaced it immediately Burke’s second nudged Ontario’s
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Nova Scotia won its match in the ninth with’ a four as Allan Kennedy drew to the back of the house on strategy switch after» a knock-out ‘ trade that Quebec’s Fred Fowler found to his liking.
Newfoundland played well in a trick draw affair against Mani- toba but found the Manitobans not too generous with openings after taking a 5-2 lead in the fifth.
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