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

 rare 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 Veteran Driver, Old Horse and other classes 

 1)\ the following: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals, American Humane Education Society, Animal Rescue League, 

 Red Acre Farm, Miss Julia H. Worthington, John W. Whitney, W. D. 

 Quimby, George W. Harrington, James Forgie's Sons, Dr. D. P. Keogh and 

 Fire Commissioner Charles H. Cole. 



DRIVING COMPETITION 



A Driving Competition for four-horse and six-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. Onl}^ one has made an entry in the Parade 

 of 1913. 



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 alw^ays 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 



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

 partments, Old Horses, Reconstructed Horses, Four-Horse 1'eams, Owners' 

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



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