NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI 537 
stallion, of much draft power. Loulaba is a dazzling dapple gray, a real 
eye-catcher, and stands on the best of legs. These horses were a very 
mature lot of three-year-olds from start to finish, but the official veteri- 
narian was not able to send any of them out of the class after a careful 
mouthing of the contestants. 
First Prize Three Year Old Percheron Stallion, 
Iowa State Fair and Exposition, 1908. 
The thirty two-year-olds made one of the most notable collections of 
that age that the breed has ever presented. They were very well grown — 
so well that one of them was excused by the vet after he had examined 
the mouths of all of them — and for the most part they were in prime con- 
dition. When the yearlings came forward not only the vet but the regis- 
tration certificates of the massive colts that were eventually placed first 
and second were called for, but the record in both cases appeared straight 
and they were certainly entitled to their places on the prize list. Blodin 
is an altogether good one, and Harcourt is not far behind him. 
The mares made a class of twenty-three, which tells tremendously of 
the development of the breeding business in this country. They were 
headed by Castille, the roan which won at Chicago last fall, and which 
is heavier than ever. The big and showy Soubrette, a flash dapple-gray, 
stood second and the handsome black lolanthe, a last year's champion 
and in better form than ever, was third. The entire lot of females pre- 
sented most gratifying evidence of progress in the work of producing on 
this side the water the' sires needed for our market stock. 
