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In the brood mare and foal class there were fifteen entries headed 

 by Brown and Walker's black mare, Gargonille and foal by Helix. In 

 3-year-olds, Early also won, this time on the black Florence 2d. Dun- 

 ham's gray Lurette was placed second. She is a mare that, as a 2-year- 

 old won championship honors consistently. Corsa won first and second 

 in the 2-year-olds on Caroress and Migon, while his winning gray filly 

 of the 1913 circuit was sent to the barn. 



In stallion classes entries were much better than last year. There 

 were seventeen led out in the aged class, against seven in 1913. Cham- 

 plin & Ruppel of Iowa, won first on the very blocky 2,200 pound horse, 

 Kronprinz. He showed a bit like a Belgian in the head and neck and 

 lacked the true Percheron type of the Dunham colt, Kapon, which stood 

 second. However, his scale and massiveness placed him up. Singmaster 

 won third on Imperial Jalap. This horse won several prizes in France 

 before importation. He was shown thin and looked a trifle cut in the 

 flank, although his underpinning was of the best. 



In 3-year-olds Dunham won on the outstanding gray named Lycee. 

 He was later made champion, with the growthy yearling futurity 

 winner of Singmaster as reserve. A black of ample quality, but a shade 

 light below the knees, won second in the 3-year-old class. 



There were twenty-six 2-year-olds led out, and they were a good, even 

 string with home-bred colts far in the majority. Truman headed the 

 string with the toppy gray, Mazagram. He showed well at the move 

 and was indeed a likable horse from almost any angle. A trifle more 

 straightness in the hind legs would have improved matters, although he 

 carried ample support below the hock. The Singmaster colt, Malais won 

 the blue, while another gray Truman colt of similar build to the first one 

 was placed third. A colt by Jalap won in the foal class. He was young 

 and looked a trifle leggy. However, he showed an abundance of quality 

 and was of very sturdy build. 



The draft horse of Belgium is probably stronger today in the United 

 States than in his native land. Importers at Des Moines who were just 

 back from Europe reported the vast German army camped in the heart 

 of the Belgian horse-breeding district and daily slaughtering large num- 

 bers of these splendid horses for their food. Probably some day the 

 Belgian government will have to send to the corn belt for horses with 

 which to restock its farms. Be that as it may, there were nearly as 

 many Belgians at the Iowa state fair as there were Percherons. Quality 

 was good, even in the home bred colts and the breed as usual won many 

 friends from the ringside. 



In the aged stallions, Crownover won the blue on Farceur, the red 

 roan champion of 1913, as a three-year-old, both at Iowa and the Inter- 

 national. He is a horse of 2,300 pounds weight and carried the quality 

 of a Clydesdale. His hocks are the correct pattern and his beautiful 

 cannons and ankles speak well for his endurance. The purple ribbon 

 was justly given him when the champion class was out. There were 

 fifteen led out in the aged class and sixteen in the three-year-olds. The 



