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shown by some attached to road carts, others to sulkies, but the most of 
them were to road wagons with appropriate harness. In the class of 
pairs Winchester Stock Farm had a well matched pair of blacks that could 
show considerable speed. They were in good style, shapeliness and speed. 
The second place pair were shown by Chas. C. Judy of Illinois. They were 
not nearly so evenly mated as the first pair, but were shapely, with a nice 
way of going. Tom Bass secured third place with a pair of chestnuts, 
one being the mare that led her class in the standard-breds. Her mate 
was not of equal merit. 
In single drivers Tom Bass secured first with his chestnut mare. While 
it was very close between his mare and that of Mr. Judy the matter of 
appointments threw the outcome decidedly in favor of the mare. The 
Winchester Stock Farm had likely more speed than any of them, but 
not quite as nice a way of going as the other two. The three of them 
made a capital showing. The mare shown by Tom Bass has enough 
substance to guarantee durability, while she is smooth and well pro- 
portioned, but she falls away from the Judy entry when quality is con- 
sidered. These two entries were notable in the degree to which they 
combined speed with a high order of road action. 
SHETLAND PONIES. 
The state, and probably the West, never witnessed such an outpouring 
of ponies. Last year numbers were strong, so strong as to occasion com- 
ment, but this time they came even more numerously and in far better 
quality. C, E. Bunn journeyed out to test the metal of the Iowa ponies, 
and w^hile he made his accustomed record he yet found stout competition. 
Prof. John A. Craig, San Antonio, Tex., tied the ribbons with discrimina- 
tion, although the aged mare award might readily enough be overturned, 
and a slight misunderstanding of the conditions in the saddle class let 
a pony go to the front that is not especially typical of Shetland size and 
form. The ponies in harness made a brilliant exhibit, no less than four- 
teen pairs coming into the arena and a quartette of four-in-hands were 
forward. The Shetland Pony exhibit classed among the sensational 
features of the fair. 
PONIES OTHER THAN SHETLAND. 
The ponies other than Shetlands came out very strong, Chas. E. Bunn, 
Peoria, 111., and the Pabst Stock Farm, Oconomowoc, Wis., making the 
main showing with Hackney ponies. In the class for ponies in harness 
the entry of Mr. Bunn was placed first. With such finish, style, smooth- 
ness and substance, combined with correct harness action and manners, 
this entry is hard to beat. The Pabst entry posseses unusual quality and 
attractiveness in addition to good action and perhaps in step could lead 
the other, but fast or slow the Bunn entry could show many a big Hack- 
ney the correct way of doing it. In pairs Mr. Bunn showed two, the 
winners being beautifully matched in type, with such a similarity of 
action and manners as to make them almost perfect as a pair. 
The class for ponies under saddle brought out a remarkable pony from 
the Pabst stable. Perfect in type with the manners that could not be 
