OTAGO A AND P. SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 249, 26 November 1909, Page 2

OTAGO A AND P. SHOW.

PEOPLE'S DAY.

by Telegraph.-Press Association. ' Duncdin, Last Night. , the Otago A. and P. Show concluded ■ to-day m idcar weather. The attendance is believed to b e a record, and the takings at the gates total somethinover £SOO for the two lays, which is £75 better than last year. The Otago show has always been notable fo r its display of horses, and this year the entries show an increase on those of last year of nearly one .hundred.' The quality in som e respects was exceptionally good, ilic ring of two-year-old colts in Oic draught breeding section .won the admiring comments of breeders, while the hrcc-ycar-old filly class was considered to be the finest of the show. In certain | departments of the horse division, such i! 7T? \ ta " ion 3' the D ™«n show has been beaten by what was shown at Oamaru, and will probably be beaten bv what m expected to appear in InvercifKill, but, taken on the whole, and espceialTy in respect to working draughts it is considered by competent tnat_.th.ero is not another show in The nonunion .where a better display ~f horseflesh can be made. Following arc the championships awarded in the draught breeding entire:_R. ring's Baron Clinton; mare ihomson and Co.'s Baron brilliant. Imported hacks and harness fcoraesK. H. Itisett (Avondale, Southland) -Saddle horse-K. H. Bissctt (South-

Thomson and Co., with Enron's Brilliant, won Mr. Roderick McKenzio's challeng« cup for ohampion marc or filly J D. Wvlhe (Canterbury), with Baron's fiest won the draught horse urccil«rs' challenge cup for best yearling or two-year-old oolt W. I, Cray (I'ukckuri, North Otago) won the breeders' eliallonge cup for best yearling or two-rcar-old filly.