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with their large exhibit, including the champion mare and stallion, were 

 the leading winners in the ring. Richelieu, shown by Crouch & Son, was 

 king of the Belgian show. He is a fine type of what is wanted in a first- 

 rate Belgian. Massive in his very movements, deep chested, heavy in the 

 body and very short in the legs, Richelieu stood easily at the head of his 

 kind. This type was held to very consistently throughout the showing. 

 It was hard for a horse without depth of chest and a heavy body set low 

 to the ground to win in the Belgian classes. Richelieu had set the pace, 

 and those who followed him in wearing the blue and purple had to show 

 his type before Robert Ogilvie placed them at the top. The champion mare 

 was a three-year-old, Diane die Kat, also owned by Crouch & Son. This 

 mare possessed style, finish and action at once manifestly superior to 

 anything that the aged mare competition furnished. Something in her 

 snap and smoothness brought out the admiring remarks of the onlookers 

 almost as soon as she was led into the ring. Crouch & Son won the first 

 three places in the class of three-year-old stallions with a trio very sim- 

 ilar in type, heavy and strong in the body and close down to the ground. 

 Irvine won the ribbon among the two-year-olds, while the laurels in the 

 still younger stuff went largely to Finch Bros, on the stallion classes 

 and to Lefebure in the mares. 



Trumans' Pioneer Stud Farm showed at the Iowa State Fair last week. 

 As to the quality of the Shire exhibit, "what further need have we of evi- 

 dence?" But one horse succeeded in getting a place above any of the 

 horses shown by this Illinois firm. No one else was entitled to show for 

 the champion stallion, so completely had they captured the blues in the 

 stallion classes, so they were left to place the purple at their leisure. 

 Their horses invariably possessed the scale and the heavy muscling that 

 it takes to win in a Shire class, and they had been through the fitting 

 to make them show at their best. Among the mares and colts Finch 

 Bros, and Waltz brought out some good ones. The yearling mare compe- 

 tition was won by Finch Bros, on Black Maid. This mare showed in poor 

 condition and with a rough coat, but, despite her handicap, she had the 

 bone and Shire form to put her at the head of the class. The honors were 

 determined by Robert Ogilvie, of Chicago. 



CLYDESDALES. 



Quite a number of Scotchmen gathered over at one end of the ring. 

 The Clydesdales were there; that is why. Robert Miller, of Stouffville, 

 Ontario, distributed the ribbons among the breeders. "Not a very large 

 show of them, compared with the other breeds, but some excellent indi- 

 viduals," was the way the judge put the Clydesdale situation. And it is 

 excellence rather than quantity that makes a breed. The main battle 

 was between W. V. Hixson and John Leitch, with the other exhibitors oc- 

 casionally stepping away with the honors. Hixson's Baron Clifton was the 

 champion stallion. Stylish, a good acton, strong and cleanly built, is a 

 good example of the breed. Scot Laddie's winnings were a source of pride 



