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Show STATE FAIR CRITICISED BY A PAPER That there was some unfair Judging at the Utah state fair is the statement state-ment made by the Breeders' Gazette of Chicago, an authority on such subjects. sub-jects. In its issuf of October 19, that parr, speaking of tho fair, says that the horse exhibit, so far as number la concerned, was decidedly disappointing. disappoint-ing. Lee Ilanunon of Weber county made a protest against the method of . awards, and of his objections the Brooder's Gazette says. Tho .class for thre-ycar-old stal lions furulsbc'd the champion of the fair. This honor went to Hlvernant, nn extraordinarily well developed massive black Imported colt, shown by that ploiK-er breeder, Ixe Hammon o( Weber county, who purchased him of Alex. Galbraith & Son. Do Kalb, 111. Although only a colt, this was the heaviest boned and weightiest animal an-imal in the show. The cla.xs for Clydesdale stallions, four years old or over, brought together to-gether for the first tlm? two of the most noted horses of the t-reed In America Heather Blossom and Sir Marcus both of them international winners, as well as being champions flscwbere. Unfortunately the rivalry was so keen and the respective merits of the two horses eo close that the owners of Sir Marcus, the Rocky Mountain Stud company, entered a protest against tho regular Judge and got a special committee headed by the horso superintendent to judgo that class and that class alone. Tho superintendent's su-perintendent's action, he affirmed, ws to secure the sanio exhibitor's patronage patron-age in the future. IIo was taken to task for It by the board afterwards. Sir Marcus was placed first and Heather Blossom second. Mr. Hammon, Ham-mon, the owner of tho latter, withdrew with-drew the rest of his entries from competition com-petition and declares he will never exhibit again, although he has always lxv?n one of the mo3t prominent exhibitors ex-hibitors of the paet. When it is rtated that the regular Judgawas W D. Dobson, of Des Moines, la., a man of experience and national reputation, who had no possible possi-ble interest in either horse, and who Judged every other class In the fair with acceptance, the absurdity of entertaining en-tertaining such a protest wlli be understood. un-derstood. It is high time that state fair managers were getting above the petty puerile practices which so long ' made the conduct of our county fairs ridiculous by listening to overs- "kicker" "kick-er" who happens along or who fears ooinprttlUoii and wants a Judge of his own choosing. When a reputable man is asked to Judge, as in the present case, he should be backed up by the management and no account be asked 10 stand atdde to please any exhibitor. Tho whole proceeding was farcical in the extreme. |