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fifth. The class was judged by Pepper, Palmer and Dobson, and a very- 

 thorough try-out was given before the preliminary line-up. Sent back for 

 a second work-out, Anderson led off the reverse way of the ring, this 

 being a bit of show craft that places Anderson in the front rank of ring 

 generals. It put Hastings Girl on the long way of the journey, giving 

 her the outside of the ring, and going this way, it is impossible to drive 

 her off her feet, and she can out-step almost any half a pair that is ever 

 hitched. Anderson clearly out-drove Peak the wrong way of the track, 

 and Peak had a further disadvantage in the fact that in the premiminary 

 the right way of the track his pair did not get to show the full extent 

 to which they are capable. Peak is always good natured and an unruffled 

 loser, but he evidently had some feeling in this case, for he was heard 

 to remark that "Nobody ever heard of races being won the wrong way 

 of the track." 



Tommy Doyle won the Reverse Championship for harness horse, the 

 championship, with both the stallion and the mare or gelding class going 

 to 0. J. Moores, the former on Advance Guard and both the Championship 

 and Reserve on Spring Maid, driven by Mrs. O. .1. Mooers, and The Count, 

 alias Gallant Lad, driven by Mr. Mooers. 



Hunters and jumpers were, for the most part, a distinct disappointment 

 to the management, the number of entries being inadequate, although 

 the few that were present afforded some good entertainment and plenty of 

 excitement. Several horses were sent down from Burlington by Charles 

 Perkins, and two days in succession the rider of one of the horses met 

 with serious hurts in being thrown, but proved to be a lad of indomitable 

 courage by coming right back and inviting further disfigurement. It was 

 reported that he had been killed in the last event of the previous day, 

 but this was untrue, and he rode on Thursday afternoon. The accident 

 befalling him in this event being of an unusual kind. He had completed 

 the course that was laid out for him just inside the half mile track, 

 finishing with a water jump, in front of the grandstand, which he took in 

 good form. Just after landing the water jump, the horse bolted across 

 the show ring proper, striking one of the guy wires holding the poles on 

 which the electric lights were strung. This threw the horse in a heap, 

 steed and rider rolling over two or three times, with the unfortunate lad 

 falling under the horse most of the time. 



The other hunters and jumpers were owned by William Daniel, of Chi- 

 cago, these being shown by Miss Hazel Richie, Helgar Rasmussen, who 

 had the well known old-timer, Alston, and William C. Seipp. Mrs. Ras- 

 mussen rode in the hunters class and showed her husband's horse to 

 splendid advantage. In the ladies' harness class, Mrs. H. B. Kinnard, of 

 Des Moines, drove the John R. Thompson pair. Ebony Girl and Lovely 

 Lady, and gave a splendid exhibition, winning the first over two of 

 Mooers' entries and Mrs. A. L. Champlain. Mrs. Kinnard was formerly 

 Miss Valeria Young, of Kentucky, and was accounted one of the most 

 proficient horsewomen of the Blue Grass state. 



Inaugurating a new plan, the show at the Iowa State Fair began in the 

 last half of the week of August. The first show rings were called on 

 Saturday, some of the breeding classes and the heavy horse department 



