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STANDARD BRED TROTTERS. 



A goodly number of standard bred trotters were entered for the con- 

 test, although but a few actually entered the ring. Part of the exhibits 

 were judged in the pavilion, the others being taken out in front of the 

 amphitheater. W. 0. Dobson was judge. Horses of excellent quality were 

 shown, all of good conformation and showing plenty of capacity for speed. 

 In the aged stallion class it was indeed an aged one which won. Hail 

 Cloud, the well-known old sire, it being placed first, at the age of sixteen 

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Only three classes of Morgans were shown, but there were some good 

 ones among them. The judge, Mr. Bell, from the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry at Washington, seemed, in the aged stallion class, to pick the more 

 coachy type In preference to that generally accepted as the old Morgan 



