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mare that was champion last year. She is a mare that is larger and has 

 more substance throughout, but is still possessed of splendid quality. The 

 champion stallion is of excellent type, rugged but with quality. As he 

 was showing thin he looked to be a bit up from the ground, but he 

 had the other things, so could not be denied the favorite ribbon. In 

 the get of stallion classes there was a battle between the get of Car- 

 not and that of Calypso. After careful examination Mr. Bell, the judge, 

 gave the preference to those of Carnot. They showed to better advan- 

 tage, as they were all the same age. The showing of the foals was 

 encouraging for the futurities of next year. Judge, Wm. Bell, Wooster, 

 Ohio. 



Although many of the leading middle western breeders and im- 

 porters exhibited, the showing of Shires was in no way sensational. By 

 force of necessity or by choice a number of the exhibitors were not as 

 well represented as they have been upon some of the circuits, but 

 will undoubtedly contribute stronger displays to some of the later 

 shows in which they have reason to believe the competition will be 

 closer. The "futurity" awards organized by J. H. S. Johnstone at- 

 tracted splendid strings of yearling stallions and fillies and undoubted- 

 ly otherwise strengthened the showing of the breed. Robert B. Ogllvie, 

 secretary of the American Clydesdale Association, judged all of the 

 classes, and in awarding the futurity premiums called in H. O. Weaver, 

 Wapello, Iowa, to assist him. Prom among the eight aged stallions he 

 selected Trumans' big bay, Dunsmore Willington Boy III., for his champion- 

 ship, but found a better qualified entry in the three-year-old Lord Carlton, 

 also shown by the Bushnell firm. This brown is of the type popular 

 with Shire men. The reserve championship fell to an im'ported yearling, 

 Carlton Royal Grey, which Mr. Ogilvie found well enough equipped 

 to stand above the futurity winner, a splendidly grown bay shown by 

 John R. Rittenhouse, but raised by J. L. Marks, of Indiana. This 

 toppy youngster, Cecil Rhodes by name, when shown at the last In- 

 ternational, won first in his class of five. Alexander and Graham Gal- 

 braith exhibited the first-prize aged mare, Dows by Sunbeam, a well- 

 organized eight year old which they purchased from the Trumans. The 

 champion of the mares, however, was not chosen from among the aged 

 matrons, but instead from a small class of two year olds. Frithville 

 Princess, a breedy, good bodied and well underpinned black, was given 

 the purple ribbon and a most precocious weanling, Pine Krest Prim- 

 rose, was placed in second position. 



BELGIANS. 



Some of the horsemen accounted for the rather limited showing of 

 Belgians upon the grounds that a number of the exhibitors have sold 

 themselves "short" to meet a better than expected demand for breeding 

 animals. Then, too, several of the show strings have not as yet been 

 reenforced by this season's importations. The general quality of the 

 display was, therefore, scarcely up to expectations. Alexander Galbraith, 



