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DRAFT CHAMPIONS OF THE TANBARK 



139. The six horse team contests at the International Livestock 

 Expositions have proved to be the most popular feature of the 

 draft horse display. In general the best teams have come from 

 Packington, only four winners having originated elsewhere. The 

 two breeds that have produced the winning hitches are the Clydes- 

 dale and Percheron, the former having won the honors twelve 

 times at the close of 1919, the latter six times. The winners by 

 years follow: 



1900 Moore— Clydesdale 1910 Morris— Clydesdale 



1901 Morris— Clydesdale 1911 Morris— Clydesdale 



1902 Morris— Clydesdale 1912 Crouch— Percheron 



1903 Morris— Clydesdale 1913 U. S. Yards— Clydesdale 



1904 Pabst— Percheron 1914 No Show 



1905 Armour— Percheron 1915 No Show 



1906 Armour — Percheron 1916 Crouch — Percheron 



1907 Armour — Percheron 1917 Wilson — Clydesdale 



1908 Morris— Clydesdale 1918 Wilson— Clydesdale 



1909 Morris— Clydesdale 1919 Wilson— Clydesdale 



The team portrayed here is the Morris 1909 winner. Morris 

 & Co., for a number of years, were vitally interested in this 

 exhibit, their champions of 1901-03 being, with a single modifi- 

 cation, the original imported geldings shown by Moore, for 

 which they paid the then great sum of $3,000. Their second 

 notable team, the one depicted in this painting, was collected by 

 Mr. a. B. McLaren, who for twenty years supervised Morris & 

 Co.'s draft horse transportation. 



