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Show A HORSE SHOW COMING. Equine Beauties, from Mighty Perch-erons Perch-erons to Shetland Midgets. Lovers of horses will have an exceptional ex-ceptional opportunity to witness one of the largest collections ever gathered together in this city when the Hagen-bcck-Wallace Shows exhibit here Monday, Mon-day, June 21. Over four hundred horses and ponies will be housed in auxiliary tents so arranged that the general public may enter and exit at will, passing pass-ing up and down the broad aisles that afford opportunity for close inspection of the superb and beautiful equinos. No fees are charged for thl3 privilege of witnessing a really regal horse fair. The exhibits are divided in classes ranging from mighty Pcrcherons to mites of Shetlands. There are many big, muscular, broad-backed work or baggage horses, dapples, grays and blacks In four, six, eight, and ten-I ten-I horse teams, all matched to a nicety and set off with trappings of the most brilliant hue. Fifty head of ring stock are the finest specimens from whose bare backs graceful rider ever kissed a t courtesy or threw a somersault. Two score of pretty ponies, some no larger-than larger-than a good-sized Newfoundland dog, are at once the delight of children. There is a giant horse so larce that the hostler requires a ladder to reach its bvfck when he currycombs the animal, ani-mal, and a hairless horse whose skin is like velvet to the touch. There are two score kingly equines classed as menage and high-'school horses that command the greatest admiration eith-I eith-I er in the arena or paddock. There Is i a pure white Arabian specimen that is declared to be the most beautiful horse in the world, and there are many ; clean-limbed, blue-blooded racing animals ani-mals that sporting men would gloat , over and yearn to call their own. All these complete a blue-ribbon assem-, assem-, blage without equine equal and unpar-j unpar-j alleled even In the history of the great- est of horse fairs. - |