TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI 677 



advantage. A wonderfully blocky, heavy horse for his inches is Coquet, 

 which stood in fourth place. He is barely four years old, has served 130 

 mares this season and carried his weight at 2,100 pounds right through the 

 work — some recommendation, indeed, for his feeding ability. 



The three-year-olds gave ample room for rigid selection and yielded a 

 top quality commensurate with the pains taken by the judge. Aged mares 

 were represented by eight candidates, led by big, square-ended Margarine. 

 The final alignment gave a quartet of rare excellence. The three-year-old 

 fillies furnished the champion, Diane die Kat. Her success proves her the 

 more remarkable since she was handicapped by raising a colt the past 

 spring. Foals were represented with only one stallion and two fillies. 

 These were splendid little fellows, but deserved some competition to make 

 them tussel for their laurels. 



SHIRES. » 



Shires of good quality were exhibited by a number of small Iowa breed- 

 ers. Their entries added to those of the big importing firms made an at- 

 tractive show. The aged and three-year-old stallion classes especially were 

 well-filled and competition close. R. B. Ogilvie passed judgment on this 

 breed and demanded bone and quality in the winners. Fortunately for 

 the competing horses, their quality was generally good, but every time 

 he sent a draft of them back to the barn those that remained to fight for 

 honors presented a decidedly better average quality of legs and silkier 

 feather than impressed one when all were together. Shires cannot win in 

 American show yards on heavy feather alone. Coarse, wiry hair on the 

 legs is especially objectionable. Some of the winners had scarcely enough 

 feather to satisfy any stickler for this feature of breed type, but they had 

 all they needed for usefulness. 



There were none of the extremely course-legged Shires shown, as pro- 

 gressive importers have stopped bringing them over, but every step in 

 advance warrants the making of another, so it is but natural the judge 

 should tighten the screws on those falling below the average. Truman's 

 Pioneer Stud Farm, as usual, centered a large part of its attention on 

 these classes and took all the important prizes on stallions, and won both 

 championships. The aged stallion, Dan Patch, is one of the powerful, 

 masculine kind, a fit leader for good company. Cockerington Tug of 

 War is a good quality colt, moving well. Littleworth Marmion is a big 

 boned, smooth-skinned gray two-year old, beating the bay Wrydeland's 

 Chief, a muscular, rugged one with coarser feather and less pleasing 

 quality. The sorrel yearling, William's Moulton Temple, is a massive, 

 big-boned, powerful home-bred colt, thick through the body and stifle; 

 yet his legs could be improved by a trifle longer pasterns and a finer 

 quality of feather. The home-bred Teddy Loyal, standing next, showed 

 a little thin, but is a likely looking youngster. 



Five aged mares came before the judge and made a very creditable 

 appearance, compensating in quality what they lacked in numbers, 

 although Wrydeland's Sunshine is no such sensational show mare as last 

 year's winner of the same family. Among the two-year-old fillies the first 

 and second prizes in the open class both went to home-bred ones from Iowa 



