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of (physical) sins, always of omission. Accurate photo- 

 graphs are a slight help, but all individuality is, in them, 

 generally lacking. Comparison with imperfect specimens 

 should also be carefully made, and that true eye cultivated 

 which becomes finally mechanical. Women, with their 

 usual fine sense of proportion and harmony of outline, are 

 astoundingly accurate in their decisions, and should, long 

 since, have graced with their presence, in judicial capacity, 

 our show rings. Judges differ, of course, and the accepted 

 here is rejected there, but this does not affect the necessity, 

 as an initial factor, of true type. 



Show circuits are not as consecutive in arrangement as 

 they might be, and the vitally necessary Association of 

 Horse Shows (if it is ever formed) can competently arrange 

 these details to the ensuing benefit alike of exhibitions and 

 exhibitors. 



Catalogue conditions should be carefully studied, and 

 entries adapted to the classes apparently suitable. It is 

 rarely advisable to enter horses in events which may be 

 unsuited to their abilities, for once enrolled in the lists, it 

 is but human to begin to make excuses for shortcomings, 

 etc., and one may finally deceive himself into the belief that 

 his gig-horse type is really a runabout horse, and grieve 

 bitterly over the decision which shows him that he should 

 have remained in his proper class. Ability in " placing " an 

 entry is most essential in showing, as in racing. Send 

 entries early, and thus help, by your prompt patronage, all 

 interests. 



Assumed that the horse is in the bodily condition that he 

 must be to figure as an aspirant, he will travel to the show 

 by express if distant, by freight or road if near by. Per- 



