CLYDESDALE JUDGING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 8

CLYDESDALE JUDGING

UNANIMITY WANTED. At tho annual me'eting of the Clydesdale Horse Society in Sydney, considerable interest and discussion centred on the motion of Major C. J. Sanderson, inanager of the Government Horse Stud Farm, respecting tho vita,l point of Clydesdale. judging. He declared that tho eociety should place itself on the samo footing with the breed societies in the more progressive countries by drawing up a. panel of competent judges for the gyjdanee of the leading agricultural associations. The need for judges thoroughly acquainted with the essential features of the Scotch breed was* apparent, as this country must depend on importation from the Old Cpuntry to give the improvements so necessary in our draught horses.' It was most discouraging to breeders, after going to the trouble of producing animals of the recognised type, to find themselves penalised in the showring. Most show committees failed through not selecting judges conversant with the points of jjhe' Clydesdale. He concluded by moving: "That on account of representations haying been made, a list of Clydesdale judges, as approved by this society, be submitted to the Royal Agricultural Society and country. shows of New South AVales, with a view to having the judges selected from the panel." The a jtion (seconded by Mr. P. Tenicon, Lockhart, who referred to the unsatisfactory conditions met with in the show rings) waJi carried unanimously.