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cleanness of limb; the importers have 'been bringing over better horses 

 each year and have been finding a readier market for the superior stuff. 

 The display of Shires at Des Moines last week certainly surpassed any 

 seen in the Iowa arena in recent years. Mr. R. B. Ogilvie, of Chicago, 



CAHMPION SHtRE MARE 

 Iowa State Fair and Exposition, 1910 



selected the winners and in doing so paid close attention to quality and 

 cleanness. Dan Patch, certainly the greatest Shire Stallion upon the 

 American continent, ripens with age. He is just as splendidly masculine 

 and dashy as ever. The drafty bay. Charter-house Cardinal, is a new 

 recruit in the Truman barns, but he gives every promise of ably sup- 

 porting his stablemate in the ring contests of this season. The aged 

 mares were led by a breedy and shapely bay, Shelford Pride. The Iowa 

 breeders led in a large number of classy and well-grown home-bred stal- 

 lions and marcs which made a most creditable appearance. 



DRAFT GELDINGS OR MARES. 



As the number of pure-bred and imported stallions increases in the 

 state, naturally the standard of excellence of the grades rises. In the 

 state of Iowa at the present time there are a greater number of high- 

 class draft horses in actual use on the farms than ever before. The 

 state fair plays a very important part in accelerating the interest and 

 enthusiasm in draft horse breeding. A majority of the ribbon winners 

 in this grade class were horses that have been at actual work on their 

 owners' farms during the past summer. Bird, the mare winning the 

 blue in the aged class is one of "the good old-fashioned kind" with mas- 

 sive shoulders and hips. She also possessed plenty of action and was 



