OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 335 
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. 
