best four-horse team in the Parade, provided also that the driver takes 

 care of his horses. There are second and third prizes in this Class. 



Other special prizes, consisting of gold and silver medals and sums 

 of money, are offered in the \eteran Driver, Old Horse and other classes 

 by the following: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals, American Humane Education Society, Animal Rescue 

 League, Red Acre Farm, Mrs. A. E. Dwight, Mrs. A. G. Merwin, Mrs. 

 Jacob Hittinger, John W. Whitney, W. D. Quimby, George W. Harrington, 

 Dr. P. J. Cronon, Dr. D. P. Keogh, James Forgie's Sons. 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 w^ho 

 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 1912. 



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 alwa>s a])parenl, treciuently 

 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, 

 rnd that green horses are disc-riminated against. 



11 



