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between the first two. Tice's bay Sultan's Choice is of approved type with 

 long- neck and joints and pasterns that command admiration both standing- 

 and going. Even longer and more elastic front pasterns are possessed 

 by the second bay, Merna's King Diamond by the famous old 

 show horse and .sire Samuda, but his hind feet need spreading at the 

 heels. The smallest of the lot is Ford's bay Marksman by Prince Cedrio. 

 He was thin but his shapeliness, bone, feet and feather brought him 

 third in preference to Hillman's bay Wayside Douglas. Merna showed a 

 commendable stallion foal. 



Mare classes were poorly filled. Merna and Ford competed with yeld 

 mares, the former winning on Samuda's bay five-year-old daughter Sa- 

 muda's Violet, which is a typical Clydesdale from her sweet front to her 

 serviceable bottoms. Her feather is like silk. Merna's faithful brood- 

 mare Molly, bay with white hairs, won the mare and foal class with her 

 first prize stallion foal. Her well known thick-made, easy-keeping pat- 

 tern, medium scale and very shapely shanks and joints seem to wear her 

 well year by year. Hillman had the winning three-year-old filly in a class 

 of three. She Is i-neritorious in every way, as she had to be to beat Ford's 

 sweet, strong backed, good going daughter of Prince Cedric. The winner 

 is sired by King of All. A daughter of Samuda came third. Tice won 

 with his two-year-old Bonlta by Langwater Sultan, a sweet shapely filly 

 that moves ^vell. Hilli"nan's attractive Jessica slipped in between the 

 winner and her mate Bethene. 



Futurity fillies to the number of five gave the judge a good workout. 

 He chose the growthy Ford bay Cedric's Baroness by Prince Cedric for 

 although she is thin she beats them all In stretch of frame, size of bone 

 and feet, and attractive front, and her legs and action win approval. Of 

 a smaller type is the fatter bay Dolly's Maid by Samuda which won second 

 prize for Merna; however she is muscular, active and possesses legs of the 

 stereotyped shape and finess of feather. She has more bone, a longer 

 croup and straighter hind leg than Tice's boy Sultan Queen which stood 

 next. Ford won first on a neat filly foal shown alone. 



THE SHIRES. 



Several Iowa breeders brought out very creditable Shires and the dis- 

 play was further strengthened by the presence of a large stable from the 

 Truman's Pioneer Stock Farm in Illinois. There were all told twenty- 

 eight head of Shires. An outstanding feature of the show was the com- 

 plete absence of "wooden" legs and the universal presence of soft fine 

 silky feather, denoting excellent wearing quality in legs, joints and feet. 

 Prof. W. H. Pew, Ravenna, O., did artistic work as judge in the rather 

 small classes which were run through rapidly. 



In the first class Trumans' were declared the winners on the brown aged 

 stallion Kirtling- Bold Lion which is one of the big ones and possessed of a 

 powerful frame. He was awarded the grand championship. Huddle- 

 stun's bay Seven Flag preserves his fine quality well and looks very sub- 

 stantia] all over. Two such high-class stallions deserved some strong- 

 competitors. Tom Skola showed a very prepossessing bay named Star- 

 light King- which readily headed the three-year-old class. Besides a com- 

 manding front and a wealth of Shire character, he has a strong middle' 

 piece, muscular end,g and legs of distinctly hard tempering. A somewhat 

 taller bay with big bone and clean joints Is Trumans' record-prize colt 

 Captain Osgood. His legs look harder than those of the strong-backed, 

 level-crouped muscular black Wrydeland's Drayman also shown by Tru- 

 mans' and winning third place in preference to the smaller and less 

 powerfully proportioned brown Winterset Boy shown by Foster. Tru- 

 mans' scored in the next class with the two-year-old Eureka Standard. 

 This colt is distinguished by considerable white on legs and face. He Is 

 a level-topped fellow and his underpinning Is the work of a master. An- 

 other Truman colt, Witcham Minstrel 2d, came next. He has typical Shire 



