HORSE PARADES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17287, 30 September 1916, Page 11

HORSE PARADES.

ELLESMERE ASSOCIATION’S FIXTUBi, ' Tho Ellesmei’© Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s annual horso parade was held' at tho Leoston Recreation. Ground yesterday afternoon. Though tho weather was dull there was a large attendance' of farmers and breeders generally. The entry of horses' was the smallest on record, and only nine out oi twelve horses entered were paraded. A prieo offered bjf tho association for'the best Clydesdalo stalt lion travelling the Ellesmere - district wat. N; - o wsrded to Mr D. W. AVestenra’s'Reformer,-, v 1" with Bonnie Duhkeld second and Proud Bannerman- third. The judge vras Mr W. F. M. Buckley. " ~ ’ . METHVEN. .... .. r.-fIY The annual parade of draught horses was ; held at Methven, at the conclusion of tha stock sale yesterday. Only threo competitoro r f came forward in tho aged stallion class, bui-A.:-, what was lacking in'numbers was mado up ii> qualify. The horses wero judged by Mt C, Coriuack, son., of Christchurch, tuaS: p. 3 .in. tlie following, order:-—Selwyn.9,. • Prld'o,-bv Baron Everest, dam Peggy,'’-oiniejf ; Mr s w. SYaser, Belfastj. Royal Oak, by'.Roy&l V Crown, dhm by Highland Princa, owner, .Mr.,;,-; W.' Irstham, Lauristoii; Boron Carlton, ' by-'-Baron’s Pride, d«itt May of Ross, oWneis, : Messrs J. and A. J. Wilsbn, Methven. • In the three-year-old class there • wero r co entries. ‘ ••