AWARDS AND REPORTS. 
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ladies’ equestrian display. 
[ Col. N. W. Dean, - Madison. 
| Gen. Rufus King, - - - Milwaukee. 
Judges ,.. i Gen. Stevens, - Dodgeville. 
| Col. Z. P. Burdick, - - Janesville. 
[ Harrison Reed, - - - Menasha. 
The Committee on the Ladies’ Equestrian Display make the 
following 
report : 
Your Committee, in discharge of the difficult and exceed¬ 
ingly delicate duties assigned to them, in making their awards, 
have labored under a considerable degree of embarrassment, 
arising from obvious and mainly unavoidable causes. The 
short space of time allowed for the trial display; the difficulty 
of obtaining, from the Judges’ stand, an unobstructed view of 
the performance of each contestant, and the many interruptions 
consequent upon the attendance of a vast multitude of interest¬ 
ed observers, may have led them to overlook some who, in 
strict justice, were entitled to receive a premium at their 
hands. They are, however, without dissent, of opinion that 
the prizes awarded were all well deserved, and only regret that 
there was not a much greater number at their disposal; being 
satisfied that as many more could have been meritoriously be¬ 
stowed. The ladies, almost without exception, exhibited a 
good degree of skill in their free and easy style of riding, and 
in the general management of their horses. 
Your Committee, in making up their judgment, have been 
governed by the following considerations : 
First —The gracefulness displayed by the rider, and the 
firmness and ease with which she sat upon the saddle. 
Second —The confidence, method and easy facility denoted 
in the management of her horse. 
Finally —The general style of riding, deportment, tasteful¬ 
ness of habiliments, and freeness from unnatural effort to excel. 
The whole number of fair contestants, who entered the field 
for the prizes, was nineteen. The unfavorable condition of the 
