least a year before the date of entry; and provided, also, that a certificate 

 to this effect, signed by the owner, was filed with the entry blank. 



The provision as to the length of time during which the horses have 

 been dri\en must be true of each horse in the team, if there are more 

 than one, except that in the case of a four-horse team it will be sutficient 

 if three of the horses have been driven by the driver for one year. 



A horse shall be considered serviceably sound if he goes sound and 

 breathes sound. 



These certificates have nothing to do with the ribbons. A 

 horse may be eligible for a ribbon, although the driver is not 

 eligible for a certificate. 



Certificates are not awarded where owner and driver are one and the 

 same person. 



NOTICE TO SPECTATORS. 



In many cases certain imperfections, not always visible to spectators 

 at the reviewing stand, very properl}' prohibit the giving of a prize or a 

 ribbon of high grade to a particular horse. The horses pass the review- 

 ing stand at a walk, and at that gait a slight lameness would not be 

 disclosed, whereas the Judges would have detected it when the horses 

 were shown to them at a trot. Moreover, defects in harnessing, sores or 

 galls under the harness, and other imperfections, not always apparent, 

 frequently exclude a fine horse, or team of horses, from high honors. It 

 should be remembered, too, that in this Exhibition age counts in favor of 

 a horse, and g-reen horses are discriminated asfainst. 



If these principles upon which the prizes are awarded be kept in 

 mind, the Association believes that there will be very little dissatisfaction 

 with the decisions of the Judges. Increasing care has been taken each 

 year in the selection of them, and the Association is confident that its 

 Judges now form a band of men as competent and impartial as could be 

 secured. 



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