SHOW GHAT

Matamata Record, Volume XX, Issue 1917, 14 March 1938, Page 5

SHOW GHAT

AWARDS AT MORRINSVILLE THE CHAMPION HUNTER. Magic Land, winner of the Champion Hunter ribbon and the Ross Nelson Cup and the first prize money of £l7 10s, is owned by Mr. A. Yarndley, of Te Awamutu. At last year’s show Magic Land won the consolation hunter, and two years ago he won the open jumping event at the Kiwitahi sports. This horse’s win against the best jumpers of the Waikato was popular with onlookers,. Mr. Yarndley received many hearty congratulations, as he has been a cheerful competitor at most shows and sports meetings. YOUTH HAS ITS DAY. Young exhibitors were to the fore when the cups were being presented. Mr.- Alec Cameron, who was a prominent footballer until a few years ago, won the National Chilling Championship; • Mr. Allen Thomas won the W. and R. Fletcher Cup for shorn lambs; and Mr. Cecil Grey, whose farm adjoins the borough, won the Wholesale Society Cup for woolly lambs at his first appearance as an exhibitor at the show. EIGHT PET LAMBS. Seven Down-cross lambs and one Longwool lamb were penned in the pet lamb class. One of the lambs was “ the black sheep ” of the -pen, or more correctly it was a chocolate brown. The judge shattered some illusions when he explained to a pressman that he awarded prizes according to the condition of the lambs and their value from the butcher’s point of view, and took no particular notice of the well-washed and combed fleeces of most of the pets. Each young exhibitor received a shilling donated annually by Mrs. G. Howie.

CUPS WON OUTRIGHT. Mr. P. McNaughton won the Sir William Herries Memorial Cup, the points prize in the draught horse section, for the fifth year. This cup is won outright by the exhibitor winning it most often during a ten-year period, and as no one else can now equal Mr. McNaughton he will receive the cup “ for keeps ” eventually. Mr. C. S. Leggett, who won the Dairy Companies’ Cup, wins the trophy outright, having won it twice in succession. For two hours or more Messrs. R. A. Mansel (Hamilton) and T. Marks (Auckland) were busy sorting out the best and the next best among the fat cattle yarded for their judging on the day before the show. They remarked that all the cattle on show were good, but some were better than others, and the whole display was a fine example of the class of beef that Morrinsville farms are producing.