Record of Shorthorn Prize Winners 



The exhibition of prize winners has always been an effective means of 

 advertising the merits of Shorthorns and since the days of Ceilings' "Dur- 

 ham Ox" and "The White Heifer that Traveled" the record of prize win- 

 ners has been an interesting part of Shorthorn history. The story of show 

 yard triumps during various periods of the breed's development furnishes 

 more than a passing interest to ardent students of Shorthorn history. Such 

 accounts are readable whether they portray the victories of Duchess 34th, 

 the dam of E'ates' great sire, Duke of Northumberland (1940); Booths' 

 twins, Bracelet and Necklace; Isabella Buckingham, Lady Fragrant, Dun- 

 can's Duke of Airdrie, Loudon Duchess 4th, Loudon Duke 6th, Fanny For- 

 rester, Young Abbotsburn, Mary Abbotsburn 7th, Viscount of Anoka, 

 Whitehall Sultan, Whitehall Marshal, Choice Goods, Ruberta, Fair Queen, 

 Cumberland's Last, Dorothea 2d or Ringmaster. This is a very brief list 

 of notable prize winners. 



When Secretary Harding outlined a plan for this record of prize 

 winners he suggested the short tabulated pedigree that has been used. 

 As an advocate for many years of this form of pedigree I was pleased with 

 the choice, as I firmly believe that many Shorthorn breeders have placed 

 undue reliance on the female line and have failed to give proper emphasis 

 to the improtance of good sires. The plan as suggested to me was to in- 

 clude prize winners at the American Royal and the International shows 

 from 1900 to 1918, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and at Iowa and 

 Ohio State Fairs since 1910. As the Shorthorn show at the Minnesota 

 State Fair was under the management of the American Shorthorn Breed- 

 ers' Association from 1901 to 1909 I have included prizes awarded at Ham- 

 line during that period, also those at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 

 1905 and the essential ones at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. 



This involved a vast amount of detail a patient plodding through the 

 records of nineteen years. The awards at national shows were secured 

 from records of the association, but those of state fairs required a per- 

 sistent search through files of livestock journals, with the added labor of 

 identifying animals where name numbers had been omitted in reports of 

 shows. This may account for the omission of worthy prize winners at 

 some of these fairs. 



For fear this record would be too bulky it was agreed by the secretary 

 and myself that at the earlier shows only prize winners above fifth place 

 should be included, but in later ones a much longer list has been given. 

 The preparation of this work required several months of painstaking labor, 

 but it gave me a renewed* acquaintance with many show yard worthies 

 upon which I used to hang prize ribbons during my twelve years' service 

 with the association. This record of prize winners is submitted with the 

 hope it will be of interest and possibly of some use to the Shorthorn breed- 

 ers of America. B. O. COWAN. 



Santa Monica, California, 1919. 



