The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-10-22
COLT SHOW IS
A BIG SUCCESS
COMMERCIAL CLUBS ANNUAL
SHOW or COLTS HELD ON
SATURDAY
FIRST PRIZE TO \. c. SKIHNER'S COLI
Nineteen Fine Looking Young Animals
Are Entered and Prizes Are Given
to Six-The List of Winners

The second annual Brookings Coun
ty Colt Show was held in Brookings
Saturday, October 18th, 1914. The
weather was ideal and a large crowd
turned out to see the show. While
there were not as many colts exhibited
as there should have been, considering
the liberal prizes which were given
and the number of colts which there
are in the county, there was a gain
over the number shown last year,
there being nineteen entries. Taken
as a whole they were a fine bunch OF
colts which will grow into good SER
viceable draft horses.
Prof. James w. Wilson of the South
Dakota State College did the Judging
and awarded the premiums as follows:
1st premium, 500 on a grade Clydes-
dale owned by H. G. Skinner.
End premium, SIS, on a grade Clydes-
dale owned by T. NJ. Johnston.
3rd premium, SO, on a grade Clydes-
dale, owned by A. c. Porter.
4th premium, $3.50 on a grade
Clydesdale owned by Geo. Sanderson.
5th premium, IS, on a Shire, owned
by ]. j. Green.
9th premium, $3.50, on a P%ercheron,
owned by Geo. Fem.
After awarding the premiums Prof.
Wilson in a few words told what the
conformation of a draft colt should be,
laying special emphasis upon the feet,
limbs and muscular development. He
brought out the fact that as the old
saying goes, mo feet no horse, is es-
pecially true in draft horses" Too
many of our draft horses are afflicted
with s%idebones, ringb ones and fat feet
and when one or more of these are
present it makes the horse incapable
of rendering long and satisfactory SER
vice especially in the city or paved
streets.
Prof. Wilson also pointed out that
a correct position Of the limbs is abso-
lutely necessary in the draft horse in
order that they may bear the heavy
weight of the draft horse and with
stand the strains to which they are
subjected, without developing such
unsoundness as bone spavins, bog
spavins, curbs and th~oroughpins, all
or any of which incapacitates it to a
greater or lesser extent" "As the
source of power in a horse is located
in the muscles it is very important
that the draft horse be well muscled
throughout, especially in the back,
loin, Group and hind quarters as these
are the regions in which most of the
power, which the draft horse throws
into the collar, is developed"
Prof. Wilson then gave reasons as
to why he had awarded the premiums
as he had lone and pointed out to the
crowd the different features of each
colt.
After Prof. Wilson had finished, a
picture of the prize winning colts was
taken as well as of all the colts ex-
hibited.
BY consulting the entry list these
facts were uncovered. OF the 10 colts
exhibited, there were seven grade
Percherons, ten grade Clydesdale, n
grade Shire, and one grade Belgian.
AS shown by the list of awards it ap-
pears that the first four of the six
prize winners were grade Clydesdales,
the fifth prize going to a grade Shire
and the sixth prize to grade Percheron.
Upon inquiry it is found that the colt
winning 1st premium is a high grade
colt having at least three top crosses
of pure bred C~lydesdale, making it 7-8
Clydesdale. This colt was sired by
Jacks Olive 1866 owned by E. L. Ust,
as was also the End prize colt. The
3rd and 4th prize winners were sired
by Cornado 1861, owned by Chas.
Hawkins. Another fact of interest is
that the dam of the LIST prize colt was
sired by Cornado 1851. The horse
Cornado 1851 has been owned in
Bookings county for several years
and it is the opinion of a number of
our best local horsemen that he has
more good colts to his credit than any
other stallion in the county.
The above has been pointed out 10
show the value of consistent selection,
within the same breed. of sires used
and what may reasonably be expected
when such a course is followed no
matter what the breed may be.