Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-10-22

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(From. the Spirit of the Times.)
Exhibition of Thorough Bred Horses at Ag
Il ricuItural Fairs!
DEAR sSPIRIT'-In the exhibition o
thoroughbred horses at Agriculture
Fairs it seems to me that there is grea
need for revisaI and improvement o
the conditions on which such stock i
shown, that all which is not of that KNIT
may be excluded from competition ii
that class, and that the question of su
periority may be confined strictly tt
what is really thoroughbred
In list of premiums for the Ohi'
State Fair, just closed, the conditions
ran thus, No premium to be awarded
or paid, unless pedigree be exhibited
with the animal, proving him or hel
to be thoroughbred This does not
meet the case. | have heard of those
that for a dollar note would make oui
a pedigree for anybody. The condition
of another premium list reads thus
Satisfactory evidence of blood will be
required by the Executive Committee
before the premiums are paid This
does not meet the case, as an interested
individual may say, 'We are satisfied
we have a thoroughbred horse, and are
sorry that others are not as well salts
fed on the subject as we are, though
the horse referred to may have neither
personal characteristics nor documents
to satisfy a good Judge of the stock OF
the righteousness of his claims
1t is generally admitted by those that
are acquainted with the subject that
there are at least two ways of deciding
the question of the purity of the blood
horse, viz, external marks of the horse
himself, sustained by the legal and col
lateral evidence of duly authenticated
pedigree.
I would suggest the following as an
improvement on all the conditions that
have ever seen annexed to any premi-
um list, and respectfully present : &c
the notice of yourself and readers
Cass A-Thorougbred Horses-An
unbroken and duly authenticated pedl-
gree sustaining purity of bloed, age ,and
identity, must be presented to the Awar-
ding Committee with each horse enter
ed in this class. When the horses are
called out for exh bition, the Awarding
Committee will stand at the entrance of
the ring, and no horse will be admitted
into the ring, or be allowed to 60 to the
Judges stand for competition in this
class, that does not hand over to the
chairman of the Awarding Committee
his pedigree duly sustaining the above
claims.
Should any one or more exhibitors
feel aggrieved at the action of the above
rules, by which the Awarding Commit
tee is governed, he or they shall have
the right of appeal to some competent
authority to decide on the question OF
purity of blood and authenticity of ped
igree, the appellant to pay the expenses
attending the investigation of said mat
ter of appeal if decided against him, and
if decided in favor OF appellant, then
the expenses attending the subject OF
appeal shall be paid by the Society fol-
whom the Awarding Committee acts.
Were this rule universally adopted
and acted upon. we would no longer see
what have felt very sorry to see, name
ly, the placing the pure blooded horse
in the degrading position of being com
pared with and placed in competition
with horses that have absolutely nothing
to sustain their assumed character, and
whose only pretensions to pure b ood Is
the desire of the owner, exhibitor, Ol
friend, that they be so, or the Ignorance
or fraud of said owner, friend, or exhi
bitor, in trying TO pass off horse fol
what he really is not. Community
would also see what thoroughbreo
horse is, and that they have not as many
of that kind of stock amongst them a:
they are now desired to think they
have The mixed blood being excluded
entirely, the only and simple question
would then be if there would be any
competition at all, which think woulC
be rare case at many of our County
Fairs. Which has the most popular
useful, or beautiful strain of blood!-
and which is the best horse with re
gard to age. hood, color, form, size
action, disposition, &c?
From your Notices to Correspon
dents we think it doubtful that thi
f communication can Immediately be in
serted in the Spirit Gf worthy of ad
, mittance at al, but from the fact o
numbers of our Fairs not having ye
been held this fall, We would be glad t.
see it printed as soon as convenient
with your opinion on the subject, ant
the views of other experienced men OF
the same.
As the case has existed, many hors
es of mixex blood have been awarded
premiums in the class of thoroughbred
, horses at our State and County Fairs
and the same thing still exists in ma
ny places, | fear. thus misleading tn,
people, and upholding the dishonesty
If the above, or a similar rue were en-
forced, it would elevate the standard t
; its proper height, exclude those of mike
, blood, and send them to the class the
belong to, where they would honor bot
themselves and their owners, put sto
to the frauds that have long been prac
tsed, and preserve to a great exten
r from imposition that large number G
r persons that have the candor and hor
esty to say that they know nothing a abou