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WINNERS AT AVON SHOW Al Bloch Takes Stallion Honors Over Nine Competitors at Autumn Breeders Exhibition. NEW YORK, N. T., September 27 The annual Autumn Show of the Genesee "VaN ley Breeders Association was held at Avon, Monday and Tuesday of this week, with a larger and better list of entries than ever before. Many experts on breeding were present to see the judging, which was done by officers of the Federal Remount Service, Majors a L. Scott and A. H. Jones, Col. H. C. Whitehead and Rear-Admiral C. T Grayson. The thirty-nine classes embraced all types of mares, mares and foals, yearlings, two and three-year-olds which had been sired by the stallions of the breeding bureau. There was a notable improvement in the quality of the mares that were shown and, of course, a corresponding betterment in the quality of their progeny. The stallion class was the strongest ever seen in this state. There were ten horses in the ring, but the most recent acquisition, The Curragh, was not considered for the ribbons, as he did not make a season in the valley. Al Bloch, winner last year, was again awarded the blue, after an hours deliberation. Kalitan, another of the same type as the big-bodied and short-legged winner, was second, and Eyebrow scored third over Adams Express. The winner is a son of Voorhees, while Kalitan is by Rey Hindoo. Star Shoot sired Eyebrow, whose dam was the St. Andrew mare Eyelet. Adams Express is by Adam. The other contestants were War Call, by Cylgad; Ormesdale, by Ormondale; Estimator, by King Hanover; Long Tongue, by Ormondale, and Wonder Boy, by Watercress. The Sturgis Cup, for the best yearling by a jockey club sire, was wori by the bay gelding Agate, by Eyebrow, foaled by a fine old English riding mare, which C. K. G. Billing3 had given to the breeding bureau. The Avon Cup, for the best yearling, was easily won by Ta Arms, a well-named son of War Call and the three-quarter bred mare, "Valkyr, by Ben Carrick. The two-year-old prize for the Avon Cup went to the thoroughbred Chalmar, by Charles Edward Mary Esterling, by Lord Esterling, while the Avon Cup for three-year-olds was taken by the thoroughbred Al Fresco, by Al Bloch Jenny Mas, by Macbeth, after a strong competition with the three-quarter breds, Bangri, by imported Square Deal, and Fair and Square, also by; Square Deal.
