Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-09-27
HORSE SHOW WAS
BEST IN YEARS
Uniformly Excellent Strings Wed
for First Honors
Moraans, Kentucky saddlers, Percherons
and Trottirg Bred Animals Were the
Leading Features.

Leading Features.
Probably a better showing of uniform
ly excellent horses never was made at
the Valley fair. In some years there
have been more individual exhibitors,
with smaller number of horses but
this year. in addition to a larger num-
Der of Percherons than usual, most of
the available stabling room was occu-
pied by three large strings and one
smaller one, all the animals possessing
an abundance of style and action.
The most attractive exhibit of STAN
dard-bred driving horses was the string
of Morgans from Edge View farm of
Brandon, owned by II. r. G.. Watson,
whom the Valley Fair association was
glad to welcome to the grounds after
an absence of several years. Mr.. Wat
sons horses have been selected with
care both for their individuality and
for their breeding and an effort has
been made to combine as much as pos
sible of the Justin Morgan blood. The
stallion Reynard headed the Watson
string of 10 animals and had 21% per
cent of Justin Morgan blood. He Is
chestnut with white face, foaled in
April, 1907, a full brother to Lyndon
Reynard traces AZ times to Justin Nor
gan and is the type of Morgan horse to
please those looking for the original
style of that breed. Mr.. Watson show
ed the handsome yearlng stallion Sue
cess. brown with white star got by
Sampson, son of Knox Morgan, dam
Ruby by Pete Morgan.
The rest of the Watson string was
composed of mares and colts. Ruby, bay
with star, foaled in 1906, was shown with
foal. She is daughter of Pete Morgan
and a full sister of Belle of Rochester
who was a great roadster before she
became a brood mare. Evelyn, a chest
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Allen Sd. dam Nellie by Goldfnder. She
is stylish and snowy in harness and at
tracts attention wherever shown.
One of Mr.. Watson's handsomest mares
was Della, a stylish eight-year- old, got
by Knox Morgan, dam Lady, by Jack
Davis Horse). She holds various state
fair and county fair premiums in single
ly by Lyndon, dam Ruby; a chestnut
flly. Sunshine, by Sampson, dam Belle
of Rochester. and a pair of bay mares
completed this exhibit.
Kenney's Morgan, owned by Charles
G. Barlow of Wilmington, carried off
first honors for a stallion with four of
his get This jet black animal, 10 years
old. which is being used for improving
the stock in this part of the state, is
a son of Knox Morgan, first and cham
pon winner at the st. Louis world s
fair. His dam, Daisy, was by Euripides.
The string also included Morgan Ted,
brother of Kenney's Morgan. S. D.
Holbrook of West Brattleboro and F.
Woffenden of Wilmington exhibited nom
standard brood mares with colts by
Kenney's Morgan.
Nine Kentucky bred saddle horses,
exceptionally stylish and graceful, made
up the greater part of a notable exhibit
by Charles w. Bosworth of Springfield,
Mass, coming from his stables in Wal
6yn faI lie
stallion of chestnut color, four years old,
was favorite in the track exhibits.
He is by Dandy Jim, out of a Highland
Denmark mare. The handsome bay Nor
gan mare Lancet, two years old, also
was greatly admired for her style and
beauty of action. Other horses Of spec
ial merit in this string were the two
year old Monarch Minstrel, by Bourbon
King, dam by Bourbon Chief Forrest
Peer. bay four-yea old trotting bred
stallion by The Peer; and Carlina, a
Kentucky saddle mare by Montgomery
Chief.
Barney Fralick of the Connecticut
River Stock farm of Hatfield. Mass,
made the 10th annual exhibit from that
farm with IL animals, principally STAN
dard trotting bred. Earl of Chatham
a finely built and speedy black stallion
which has received special notice in The
Phoenix headed the string, and the
icSI were HdHuSOme young specimens
by Earl Of Chatham, with the excep-
ton of Three Star Patrick, a three
year-old by the widely known Elect
mont. formerly at the head of the Fra
lick string.
A standard bred three year-old stall
lion entered by the Roeder Stock farm
OF Newport, VT, took the blue ribbon
in his class. Several meritorious brood
mares and colts were shown by indi-
vidual owners, and c. A. Milliken of
Putney exhibited a nom standard geld
ing two years old. Fewer ponies than
usual were shown this year. H. Starrett
OF Brooklyn, proprietor of the vaudeville
show. entered his Shetlands, and one
Shetland and another pony bred out of
Morgan mare were exhibited by Ella
c. Nash of Newfane.
pleasing increase in the ex-
hioits OF Percherons at the Valley fair
rs noticeable. They made an interest
ing feature of the show. particularly on
the track. This was the first appearance
OF Mignon. five years old, a dapple gray
Weighing 1860 pounds, shown by L.
Bushway of Alstead N. H., and took
the blue ribbon in his class. He is by
Trecheur. dam Celia by Dillon. Charles
Goodnow of Nottingham showed his
dapple gray Baronet. eight years old
and tipping the balance at 1900. Marshall
four-year- old-iron gray weighing 1900
pounds was exhibited by c. E L. We'll
come of West Chesterfield, N. H.. and
was admired. Pioneer, a bay with black
points. foaled in 1906, came from the