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plainness about the head and neck would have made things lively for the 
Taylor & Jones' horse. The third animal was short and chubby, a little 
on the old-style Belgian type. In the three-year-old class Irvine's Coquet 
had the massiveness that the judge was looking for, and with it had the 
style and quality that the second horse, Loughridge's Gaillard, lacked. 
Finch's Paul de Roe had the superb massiveness and smoothness to make 
him an easy winner in the two-year-old class. Lefebure's Brilliant was an 
animal of much the same type, but he lacked Paul de Roe's muscling and 
was a trifle further from the ground. While the Belgian mare classes 
were not well filled, the competition was keen and some splendid indi- 
viduals were shown. J. A. Loughridge's Madame II, winner of first in 
the aged class and later the championship, is a mare of great scale and 
•massiveness. She has never yet met defeat in the show ring. Lefebure's 
Idealiste was an easy winner over Hawley & Ives' Milliaire in the yearl- 
ing class. She is a very smoothly-built mare of first-class quality and 
gave the Loughridge's mare a close rub for championship. 
CLYDESDALES, 
Though greatly overshadowed in numbers by the Percherons, which 
occupied the ring at the same time, the Clydes made a showing that was 
a credit to the breed. The aged stallions were an especially strong class. 
Gaibraith & Son's Baron's Voucher, a splendid actor, pushed W. V. Hix- 
scn's Baron Clifton hard for first place, but the latter's superior depth 
of barrel justly gave him the blue. John Leitch's Quartermaster was 
good enough in conformation to win third, though he was hardly up to 
the notch in action, a point on which W. E. Pritchard, of Ottawa, 111., 
who placed the ribbons, lays considerable stress. Fourth honors went to 
Gaibraith & Son on Alloa Lad. Among the three-year-old stallions Gai- 
braith & Son's Batewill carried off the blue, his quality, muscling and ac- 
tion making his an outstanding winner. Between the next two the decision 
was close, but the red was finally given to Merry King, owned by John 
Leitch, of Lafayette, 111., while Gaibraith & Son's Sir Rupert was given 
third. In the two-year-old stallion class Gaibraith & Son again came in 
for the lion's share of the honors, carrying off first and second with 
Baron Cowdor and Heather Blossom respectively. In the yearling class 
the preference of the judge for action was again strikingly shov/n. Gal- 
braith's Baron Montrave, w^hich took the blue, was such an outstanding 
actor that the judge could not see his way clear to place it anywhere but 
at the head of the class, though Galbraith's Auditor had condition and 
substance enough to make warm competition. 
Soderberg's Osco Sweetness led the aged mare class by a safe margin. 
She is a smooth, blocky, well-rounded mare, one that would acquit her- 
self creditably in any ring. His Thorn Cliffe Belle, which took the red, 
was hardly as symmetrical as Osco Sweetness. The third mare, James 
Pedley's Queen of the Clydes, was a splendid animal, but in rather thin 
condition. Palmerston's Darling is a heavily-muscled mare of superb 
quality, and was good enough to capture first in the three-year-old class, 
second in the aged home-bred mare class and later the championship. 
Hixson's Peach Blossom, which won first in the yearling class at the In< 
