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breeds. Already, the Iowa breeders are showing horses of greater 

 draftiness and weight in their bodies, and it is only a question of time 

 until the heather breed will be famous not only for its unbeatable 

 quality and great underpinning, but also for the other points which 

 are required of a real draft horse in this country. As a point of assist- 

 ance of real value to the Iowa breeders, Andrew McFarlane, of Palo, 

 Iowa, was selected to do the judging, and it is a remarkable thing to 

 say that he gave perfect satisfaction. No judge of the year has done 

 a better piece of work than that done in judging the Clydes this year, 

 and the Clydesdale breeders would be only too glad to welcome Mr. 

 McFarlane as the judge in any future rings in which they may be 

 showing. Among the stronger classes were those of the yearlings of 

 both sexes, and the ring of eight stallions were all animals of real 

 merit. Hope's Pride, the winner of the three-year-old class, is one of 

 the really high-class horses of the breed, and Mr. Soderberg has also 

 another coming youngster in the two-year-old, Barron's Hope. 



SHIRES. 



Among the Shires, the absence of the Truman Pioneer Stud Farm, 

 of Bushnell, 111., was keenly felt. With the absence of the number of 

 horses which the Trumans usually display, the Shire show was much 

 more limited in numbers than was that of the other draft breeds. The 

 quality of the exhibits always brought out by the Pioneer Stud is too 

 well known to really necessitate the statement that the Shire show 

 suffered somewhat in quality because of lack in numbers. Only a 

 limited number of entries were shown in the larger classes, with the 

 two-year-old. Rock's Golda Conqueror, being one of the outstanding 

 individuals. This youngster is a horse of great substance and form, 

 while carrying with it quality of equal merit. Among the younger 

 aged classes, quality was more in evidence among the fillies than those 

 of the opposite sex. This was true of both the yearling and the two- 

 year-old classes, taken as a whole. R. B. Ogilvie did the judging, in 

 his usually satisfactory manner. 



