404 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Glorious Red Cloud, a gocd representative of the American carriage class. 



AMERICAN COACH HORSES. 



This is a new classification, given this year for the first time in any 

 American horse show. Professor Curtiss, who is interested in the pro- 

 duction of a new breed, distinctly American, of the coach horse, made 

 this class for the purpose of arousing new interest in light horse produc- 

 tion. W. A. Robson, than whom there are few better judges of coachers 

 in this immediate section of America, passed on the division. He could, 

 however, find no animal which was of the type desired for the classifica- 

 tion, the result being that in most cases only second awards had to satisfy 

 the best in each class. It is to be hoped that in the future more interest 

 will be taken in these horses and, if other fairs wore to add a like divis- 

 ion to their list, a co-operation with the breeding experiment would be 

 established, thereby helping greatly those most interested in the above 

 mentioned experiment. 



HACKNEYS. 



While Iowa is strong in other classes than light horses, this fact did 

 not mean that classy entries were not on hand in the Hackney classes this 

 year. Although only seven divisions were made In this class, each ring 

 brought out some good types. Queen of Diamonds, coming from Trumans' 

 Pioneer Stud Farm, at Bushnell, 111., was an exceptionally fine example of 

 the best in the Hackney breed. She awoke the audience to the fact that 

 "something was doing" when she was taken out to act. 



