League, Red Acre Farm, Miss E. K. Forgan, Mrs. A. G. Merwin, Mrs. 

 Arthur Foote, Miss Katharine Foote, Miss Juha H. Worthington, Mrs. 

 Amanda E, Dwight, George W. Harrington, W. D. Quimby, Benj. W. Wells, 

 J. W. Whitney, James Forgies' Sons, The London Harness Company, and 

 others. These will be found specified in the entry list below. 



DRIVING COMPETITION 



A Driving Competition for four-horse teams will be held in or near 

 Commonwealth Avenue, while the judging is taking place. Entries for 

 this competition need not be made beforehand. The first prize will be 

 a silver medal, to go to the driver. 



U. S. LETTER CARRIERS 



There is a class for the Letter Carriers in the Boston District who 

 have horses; of these there are about thirty-five. Their yearly allowance 

 for providing and maintaining a horse and wagon is only $350. This 

 sum is very inadequate. The men do their best, but their horses and 

 wagons make a poor showing. Only one has made an entry in the Parade 

 of 191L 



NOTICE TO SPECTATORS 



In many cases imperfections, not always visible to spectators at the 

 reviewing-stand, very properly prohibit the giving of a prize or a ribbon 

 of high grade to a particular horse. The horses pass the reviewing-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 that green horses are discriminated against. 



SYSTEM OF JUDGING IN 1911 



Those classes in which special prizes are awarded, namely. Fire De- 

 partments, Old Horses, Reconstructed Horses, Four-Horse Teams, Owners 

 and Foremen's Runabout Horses, Barrel-Racks, Hucksters, Local Expresses, 

 and the five Championship classes, will be judged as formerly, that is, by 

 two Judges for each class, who will inspect the horses, and see them move. 

 The other classes, comprising about four-fifths of the Parade, will be judged 

 by one set of Judges in the following manner: — 



As soon as the classes are in order, the}^ will start toward the reviewing- 

 stand with a distance of twenty feet between each entry. 



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