132 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



The Shire in the show ring has not thus far received great 

 attention in America. The shows of the Shire Horse Society 

 in England, however, are very notable events. The twenty-sixth 

 annual show of that society, in 1905, was the largest ever held, 

 seven hundred stallions and mares having been entered. No 

 such remarkable breed exhibition of horses has ever been held 

 in America. All the horses shown are required to undergo a 

 careful veterinary examination. 



Importers of Shires of prominence are not large in number. 

 Alexander Galbraith of Wisconsin, George E. Brown, Burgess 

 Brothers, and the Truman Pioneer Stud Farm of Illinois, and 

 Bell Brothers of Ohio were prime and influential promoters of 

 the breed years ago, and are more or less engaged in importing 

 and breeding Shires to-day. 



