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. THOROUGHBRED STALLIONS WIN PRIZES Premier Award Goes to Square Deal Exhibition at Livingston County Show a Big Success. BY C. J. F1TZ GERALD. AVON, N. Y.. September 120. The 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 Bureau 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 Hambletoniau tribe. From early in the forenoon until five oclock Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, a noted horsewoman of Ioxington, Ky., and F. Ambrose Clark of Coonerstown, this 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 a drizzling rain fell throughout the greater part of the day, interest was sustained to the close of the show. Moving juctures of some of the competitions 1 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 learn the short cut to successful horse production as practiced in the Genesee Valley. There were nine superb stallions shown, and the premier award went to Square Deal, by Simon Square, a foreign-bred horse of great quality and substance. This grandson of St. Simon also carried off the blue ribbon in the class for the best three foals by a breeding bureau sire, and lie earned the unqualified praise of the government experts by the manner in which he stamped his individuality upon his progeny. Al Blocii, by Voorhees, was second in the stallion class, while third was the portion of Uncle Bryn, by Bryn Mawr, recently donated to the breeding bureau by the. Canadian sportsman. Commander J. K. L. Ross. Theof fspringvof-the ever popular .-Wonder Boy scored numerous individual triumphs. A foal by him from a mare by Nick. 11 son of Mortemer, used regularly on the farm of Hanratta Brothers of Leroy, who have nothing but clean-bred and half-bred work horses, won in every class in which siie was shown. A smashing two-yoar-o!il by Macbeth Jennie Mac won the Stnrgis Cup for the best two-year-old. The best yearling prize was won by a son of Al Blocii and Ravena, by Clifford. Persiflage, by Otis Badinage, by Margrave, was adjudged worthy of the championship for three-year-olds. FARMERS SEEK ADDITIONAL MARES. The growth of the breeding industry in this region owes its stimulus to the intelligent co-operation of the Breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club,- with tlie Genesee Valley Breeders Association, of which Mrs. Herbert AVadswortli 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 has come through the ap-lwrtionment of good mares in the community. There is an understanding that the foals resulting from mating these dams with the Jockey Club sires shall become the property of the custodian of the mare. The fact that a three-year-old gelding by Wonder Boy. a giant son of Watercress, loaned to the Breeding Bureau by August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, and from a half-bred dam, was sold during the show by Mrs. AVadswortli 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. Wailsworth was besieged by farmers after the show for additional marcs. The knowledge that she had recently sold a pair of four-year-olds one thoroughbred and the other three-quarter bred, by Shotgun anil Wonder Boy respectively also contributed lo the desire for additional material for next springs campaign. Col. Fair, who is an active memlMr 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 ; I a thoroughbred sire, no matter what typo of dam I lie came from, had the marks of his origin plainly indicated. Clydesdale, Percheron. standard-bred, coach or mongrel mares had foals by their sides ; J , whose 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 r the proper type to get the sort of horse we want . for tlie service. Those animals that come between fifteen and sixteen hands should make ideal re-, mounts. It the hunting field and the show ring have all that are sixteen hands and over. "The work being done here in the valley," continued Col. Fair, "is just what the remount com-! mission would like to establish in every -grazing , community throughout the country, and it is our j purpose to encourage the work in every way pos-sibie. The thoroughbred ancestor lias heart and lungs of the best, and his progeny is more likely L to have these qualities than those of any other 1 sires. The trotting horse has fine heart and lung : development also, but he has not been asked to carry ! weight upon his back for generations. Trotting dams and Percheron mares that are not too large : should mate well with the thoroughbred. There is 1 110 better location for the work at hand than this lovelv valley. The long severe winters are not a J 1 drawback. I regard them as a factor in the production of a hardy type of horse."
