Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-10-19
Special Report Of the Committee on
Worst Specimens of Horses.

The Committee take great pleasure lii
announcing that this grand feature Of the
Trumbull County Agricultural Fair. was a
complete success. They regret, as did also
the owners Of the horses entered for pre-
miums, that the handsome editor of the
Youngstown Register, whose fame as a
competent judge of horse flesh has spread
so wide, failed to make his appearance
Whether this was owing to want of time
on his part, to fully prepare for the Onerous
duties of his office by consulting YOuatt,
Dadd, Rarey, and other standard authori-
ties, or whether his ~declinatiOn was owing
to the fact that the horses we're not labelled,
and there was no special means of distin-
gushing them apart, your committee are
unable to say. As each horse was warran-
ted not to run away, and the Col. would not
have been personally endangered, the Com
mittee presume he was ignorant of that fact
or he would have been p%resent.
In order to ell the vacancy occasioned by
the absence of the lamented Colonel,
Messrs. Francis Andrews of Rowland, and
A. Wentz, of this place, were appointed.
The HORSES.
The appearance of the horses was, $50
far as words can describe them as follows.
The frat was a charcoal colored gelding,
entered by iir. John Croy of Braceville.-
He, (the horse, not the man, was shaped
somewhat lise a lean giraffe, his ribs being
the most prominent part of his body. He
had evidently seen many SHOWS, had ring
bones, a fine promise Of a fstula, and his
eyes were not good but the browning glO-
nv of this horse, was his fore legs. These
were about the shape of 4 sickle, and he
balanced himself when standing, on the toe
points of his hoofs, and when travelling
went partly on them, and partly on his
knees. and emphatically scratched gravel as
he dragged his slow length along" The
owner, an active youth of about 20 years,
Led his horse to the judges stand, wearing u
long tailed butterGut colOrcd coat, carrying
a faded cotton umbrella, his long hair
streaming back, and chewing tobacco vim
d~ictivcly.
No. 2,-Was a venerable black marc,
which must have hearda great deal of thun-
der in her time, (Which was long ago. for
,he was quite deaf. 4 spectator remarked
that she must have been stall fed, but if so,
she could have had little else than the stall
to eat, being a travelling skeleton. True,
she had such strong constitutional objcc-
tions to travelling that perhaps it would be
as well to say she was a standing skeleton.
She had ring bones, and a SPAWN. but her
strongest point was the largest pOle-evil that
probably ever grew on a horses head, it be-
ing about the size of a SUI flower, and was
the moving cause of the Committee keeping
at a very respectful distance, and also Of
awarding to her the second premium.
No. 3,-Was a brown nag, one side of
which presented quite a respectable appear
ance, but on the left, just back of the Shout
ders was a protuberance almost exactly re-
sembling a side-saddle. backing the horns,)
and if it had only been supplied with a stir
up, would have answered all the purposes
of that female convenience. The nag had a
bcrcaved expression of countenance, sugges-
tive of short mmo and few oats. (Thi5
might have been occasioned by the heayes,
with which it was sOrely aficted.) Thisre-
oeived the third premium.
No. 4,-Was a small, old ~sorrell, blind,
spawned, had curbs, and was poorer than
Don Quixote's Rosinantc. His haunch
bones would have served for 4 hat raci, ami
his narrative was abbreviated to the ut
most.
His best points were sharp ones, and if
he had kept still he would have got a prem
Jun, but he put on airs, and walked, trOt-
ted and even gallopod, which last cffectu-
ally ruled him cut or to use a jockey phrase,
iiseeseed him.