DIFFERING FROM THE JUDGES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 2

DIFFERING FROM THE JUDGES.

Not very long ago (says a writer in an exchange) I heard an exhibitor oxclaiming rather bitterly at the treatment he had received, at the hands of the judges. Ho thought he had been very hardly used, and having once begun to talk on the subject expressed himself rather freely. He did not know what the) , saw in the winner, etc., and his was the best horse, etc. When he had finished an old exhibitor said quietly: "Don't blamo tho judges, show better horses if you want to win in such company;" This provoked a challenge to examine his horse, which was at once accepted. And a really good horso he is, such as any man would be glad to give a lot of money for. He has beautiful action .and lino manners, lie moves well in all his paces, and has quality, substance, and pace. Wo looked him carefully over, and the old exhibitor was spokesnian. Said he to the owner, painting out a trifling fault in the horse's conformation, "I suppose you did not notico that when you.bought him?" "Yes, I did," replied tho owner, "and I told the man from whom I bought him about it too. But what of that? he is no worse for it." The samo thing was said about the other two Or three littlo faults, and the samo reply given. Thon, said the old hand, "Here arc quite sufficient roasons for your horso occupying the position ho did. You knew your horse to bo a good one, tho judges did not; and they wore quite right in, back that had the faults I have pointed'out."' Whilst they do,,not.,interffiTe;-,in;,,tho ]e.asjj,with ); a, ; hprso's utility, they are to a certain extent "eyesores; at any rate a high-class show horso should be without thorn." ..Tho owner was silenced, but perhaps not convinced. Now I wonder how many of those who grumble at the jndges are in the same position as my friend 1