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class, the fifth one is another with a splendid quality of underpinning. 

 The Iowa State College Jalap foal The Princess beat the other little fillies. 

 She has the making- of a shapely and durable mare. Judge had a young- 

 ster of pleasing pattern in second place, and a couple of others of a de- 

 sirable sort wound up the list. 



The special classes extended the Percheron show considerably and 

 the groups proved instructive to students of breeding. The whole display 

 swept away any doubt about American breeders being on the right track. 

 Eight mares were represented in the produce class. The four groups of 

 five stallions each included twenty of the best stallions put together in a 

 long time. Singmaster's lot headed by Lagos easily won first, and the 

 Dunham group came second. Most of these are American-breds. The 

 Truman group winning third was conspicuous for the big bone which 

 characterized the lot. 



THE CLYDESDALES. 



There was an artistic little display of the Scottish draft horse, adhering 

 strictly to the ancestral precedents as to pattern and performance. The 

 breed has not usually been numerous at this fair but seldom have there 

 been such uniformly typical legs, feather and action. The blood of 

 horses that won honors in the great show.s a few years back fiows through 

 the veins of most of these entries and accounts for their excellence. The 

 capable veteran Judge Andrew McFarlane Palo, la., exercised due discrim- 

 ination in picking the winners. 



THE STALLIONS. 



G. W. Merna's grand old show horse Samuda came out in the class of 

 sires and made a wonderful show. He is nine years old and is familiar 

 as one of the most massive and big-boned Clydesdales in this country. 

 He is a genuine draft horse and also displays plenty of quality, so that 

 he looks about as fresh now as he did when a colt. The ten-year-old horse 

 The Pinnacle was not shown in quite so good form by Barron Bros, and 

 he is not so large as the winner, but he has very powerful timber and ia a 

 worthy rival in good company. The neat stylish Prince Cedric won third 

 for Ford, beating the smaller compact horse Highland Duke. A big stylish 

 three-year-old Prince Ulysses, a son of Prince Cedric, brought Ford addi- 

 tional honors in the next class. He is of Scottish make-up, and so is 

 his mate Alexander which won second place. A powerful black son of 

 Samuda came third. Three light-colored colts constituted the two-year-old 

 class in which Prince Cedric's fame as a sire was still further extended 

 by the victory of a son named Prince Fickland. A well-balanced entry 

 from the Barron stable came second and beat a tall colt of nice quality 

 shown by Merna. 



Only five colts appeared in the yearling futurity class. Prince Cedric 

 again got credit through' a bay son called Proud Archer shown by Ford. 

 He is rather strong- of head but stands beautifully on the best of legs 

 bo1,h as to fashioning and furnishing of feather. He is also quite a 

 muscular youngster. The second colt shown by Barron Bros, is sired by 

 another famous show horse General Davidson. He is named Davidson's 

 Heir and looks the part. He is better turned over the croup than the 

 winner and has more of the desired Clydesdale stamp and style than the 

 third colt. Polio's Fast Freight. A good light bay came fourth for Barron 

 and a big thin rangy brown of much promise came fifth for Tice. Samuda 

 got the credit for siring the best stallion foal, a tastefully-made young- 

 ster shown by Merna. A couple of foals sired by Stately Chief stood sec- 

 ond and third. 



THE MARES. 



The mare classes were likewise small but instructive as to the Ideals 

 of Clydesdale breeders. A bay daughter of Samuda named Samuda Violet 

 beat a worthy competitor in the yeld class. She is a splendid mare, of 

 drafty proportions lilve her sire and good both above and at the iround. 



