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THOROUGHBRED STALLIONS WIN PRIZES Premier Award Goes to Square Deal Exhibition at Livingston County Show a Big Success. ItY C. J. FITZ GERALD. AVON, X. Y., September 20. Tlie hunter breeding classes of the Livingston County Show at this point last week attracted experts on the horse from all parts of the country and aroused the enthusiasm of some of the best judges in the United States. Among the interested spectators in the arena were Col. John S. Fair, representing the - general staff of the Federal Remount Commission; J Col. C. L. Scott of the Remount Purchase. Issue and Sale Service, and George M. Rommel of the Federal Itureau of Animal Husbandry. The exhibition was held on the historic fair grounds, where Harry Clay, founder of the family of trotters bearing his name, took his exercise seventy-five years ago and "where in later years the white-legged Dexter showed the superiority of the Ilambletoniau tribe. From early in the forenoon until five oclock Miss Elizabeth Daingcrfield, a noted horsewoman of Lexington, Ky., and F. Ambrose Clark of Cooperstown, tiiis state, a member of the Jockey Club, were busy passing judgment on various classes, some of them having as J many as thirty-four entries. There were stallions, mares and foals, yearlings, two-year-olds and three- 1 year-olds, gathered from far and near, and though j a drizzling rain fell throughout the greater part of the day, interest was sustained to tlie close of the show. Moving pictures of some of the competitions were taken, and those showing the stallions, brood mares and foals will be used for educational pur- 1 poses throughout the Union in order that other communities may loam the short cut to successful I horse production as practiced in the Genesee Val- ; ley. : There were nine superb stallions shown, and tho 1 premier award wont to Square Deal, by Simon , Square, a foreign-bred horse of great quality and 1 substance. This grandson of St. Simon also car- ried off the blue ribbon in the class for the best three foals by a breeding bureau sire, and he earned tlie unqualified praise of tlie government experts by the manner in which lie stamped his individuality upon his progeny. Al Rloch. by Voorliees, was second in the stallion class, while third was the portion of Uncle Hryn, by Itryn Mawr, recently do- : nated to the breeding bureau by the, Canadian sportsman. Commander .7. K. It. Ross. Tlie-offspringiiof-the ever popular - Wonder Roy scored numerous individual triumphs. A foal by him from a mare by Nick, a son of Mortemer, used regularly on the farm of Hanratta Rrothers of Leroy, who have nothing but clean-bred and half-bred work horses, won in every class in which she was shown. A smashing two-year-old by Macbeth Jennie Mac won the Sturgis Cup for the best two-year-old. The bes yearling prize was won by a son of Al Rloch and Ravena, by Clifford. Persiflage, by Otis ISadinage, by Margrave, was adjudged worthy of the championship for three-year-olds. FARMERS SEEK ADDITIONAL MAHES. Tae growtli of the breeding industry in this region owes its stimulus to the intelligent co-operation of the Rreeding Itureau of tlie Jockey Club,- with tlie Genesee Valley Rreeders Association, of which Mrs. Herbert Wadswortli is the president and active head. This organization lias on Its roster nearly every live farmer within a dozen miles of Avon. Success for the venture lias come through the ap-iwrtionment of good mares in the community. There is an understanding that tlie foals resulting from mating these dams with the Jockey Club sires shall become the property of the custodian of tlie mare. The fact that a three-year-old gelding by Wonder Roy, a giant son of Watercress, loaned to the Rreeding Rureau by August Pelmont, chairman of tho Jockey Club, and from a half-bred dam, was sold during the show by Mrs. Wadswortli to Clarence F. Levin of this place for ,500, and that a number of yearlings, mostly thoroughbred, changed hands at 00 each, soon became public property, and Mrs. Wadswortli was besieged by farmers after tho show for additional marcs. Tlie knowledge that she I mil recently sold a pair of four-year-olds one thoroughbred and the other three-quarter bred, by Shotgun and Wonder Roy respectively also contributed lo the desire for additional material for next springs campaign. Col. Fair, who is an active mcmlier of the remount commission, which is to solve the problem of future cavalry replacements, had the following to say concerning the show and the horse breeding industry in general: "It has been a great surprise to find such substantial results in so short a time, and it shows what can be done through intelligent co-operation. I never saw a more uniformly excellent band of young things as were shown today. Every colt by a thoroughbred sire, no matter what typo of dam he came from, had the marks of his origin plainly indicated. Clydesdale, Pereheron. standard-bred, coach or mongrel mares had foals by their sides whoe shoulders and pasterns bespoke the influence of the thoroughbred, and the country at large owes a debt, of gratitude to those who have brought about this development. The sires shown have been of the proper type to get the sort or horse we want for the service. Those animals that come between fifteen and sixteen hands should make ideal remounts. Let the hunting field and the show ring have all that are sixteen hands and over. "The work hcing done lrero in the valley," continued Col. Fair, "is just what the remount commission . would like to establish in every -grazing . community throughout tlie country, and it is our purpose to encourage the work in every way possible. The thoroughbred ancestor has heart and . lungs of the best, and his progeny is more likely . to have these qualities than those of any other sires. The trotting horse lias fine heart and lung . development also, but lie lias not been asked to carry weiglit upon his back for generations. Trotting dams and Pereheron mares that are not too large ! should mate well with the thoroughbred. There is ! no better location for the work at hand than this lovelv valley. Tlie long severe winters are not a drawback. I regard them as a factor in the production of a hardy type of horse."
