Pa. Breeders Pull In Draft Horse Honors
HARRISBURG Spectators
were treated to the quiet grandeur
of the Belgians and Percherons
Sunday. The two draft horse
breeds paraded before judges in
two rings for the halter classes of
the Keystone International
Livestock Exposition.
Pennsylvania breeders took top
honors in the draft horse show.
Abraham Allebach started the
flow of champions by placing with
his grand champion Percheron
stallion, Blackhome Duke. The 3
year old continued the win streak
he established last year. During
his 1985 campaign Duke won every
major show in the U.S. and
Canada, Allebach noted.
Allebach, who has shown at
KILE for the past 15 years, plans to
stand the 18-hands high champion
at his Windermere Farm in Spring
Mills.
Junior champion honors went to
the 2-year-old entry owned by
Allebach. Judge Bryan Kemp of
Ontario later pinned the Mystic
Did-It son as reserve grand
champion.
A 5-year-old Percheron mare,
owned by Thomas Gilmore,
claimed her third grand champion
title of the season at Sunday’s
show. She will seek a fourth title
when Gilmore shows her at the
Great Lakes International Show in
Detroit next week.
Gilmore, of Centre Hall bought
his champion in February from
Reganald Black of Canada. This
was the second championship of
the show for him; his yearling
stallion claimed reserve junior
champion honors earlier.
Orndorff Belgians of
Waynesburg dominated the
Belgian show reaping senior and
grand champion stallion honors
and all but one mare cham
pionship.
It was difficult for the com
petition to top Omdorff’s grand
champion stallion, Orndorff’s
Congolais Supreme, who stands 18-
hands high. This is the second
consecutive year the 5 year old has
Abraham Allebach showed the grand champion Percheron
stallion at the draft horse show at KILE.
Grand champion Percheron mare honors went to the horse
owned by Thomas Gilmore and shown by his son, Brady.
Pennsylvania Draft Horse and Mule Association Queen
Rhonda Lindsay holds Gilmore's trophy.
placed in the show’s grand
champion position. Before KILE,
the Congolaise son earned reserve
grand champion honors for the
third consecutive time at the Ohio
State Fair.
Between champion outing, the
stallion has been producing
champions at Orndorff’s 45-head
farm. He sired the junior cham
pion mare of this year’s show and
in April bred the grand champion
Belgian mare also owned by Om
dorff’s Belgians.
Orndorff’s Belgians, owned by
the brother and sister team of
Christina Lemley and Corbly
Omdorff, matched a pair of
maternal sisters to claim the
grand and reserve grand cham
pion mare titles.
The grand champion, an 8 year
old, was bred, raised, sold and
bought by Orndorffs. They bought
her because “we made a mistake,
we should’ve never sold her,”
Lemley said. The wisdom of this
decision was illustrated when
“Princess” claimed grand
champion honors of the National
American Belgian show this year.
The grand and reserve grand
mares are out of “one of the best
brood mares ever,” Lemley ex
plained. Their dam produced a
filly every year; six of these fillies
earned Farm Show champion
honors, she noted.
BELGIAN
5 Years and Older Stallion
I Orndorff s Belgians 2 Edward Fisher
4 Year Old Stallion
1 Gary and Ellen Holdsworth
3 Year Ola Stallion
1 Jerry and Shirley Rav
2 Year Old Stallion
1 Lewis Biddle Family 2 J(hn\unl>
Yearling Stallion
1 Bug and Ruth Meader 2 ..Arthur Reist 3
Gary and Ellen Holdsworth
Stallion Foal
1 Gary and Ellen Holdsworth 2 Lewis Biddle
Family 3 Arthur Reiut
Senior and Grand Champion Stallion
Orndorff s Belgians
Junior and Reserve Grand Stallion
Lewis Biddle Family
Reserve Senior Stallion
Gary and Ellen Holdsworth
Reserve Junior Stallion
Bud and Ruth Meader
5 Years and Older Mares
1 Orndorff s Belgians 2 Bud and Ruth Meader
3 John Vunk
4 Year .id Mare
1 Elmer Lapp 2 Ken and Ruth Fernnger
3 Year Old Mare
1 Orndortf s Belgians 2 Bud and Ruth Meader
3 Jerry and Shirley Ray
2 Year Old Mare
1 Bud and Ruth Meader 2 W Glenn Mont
gomery 3 Bud and Ruth Meader
Yearling Mare
4* Orndorft s Belgians 2 Bud and Ruth Meader
3 Patt Wilson
Foal Mare
1 Gary and Ellen Holdsworth 2 Arthur Reist 3
Orndorft s Belg ans
Senior and Grand Champion Mare
Orndortf s Belgians
Reserve Senior and Grand Mare
Orndortf s Belgians
Junior Champion Mare
Orndroff s Belgians
Reserve Junior Mare
Bud and Ruth Meader
4 Years and Older Gelding
1 Kathy Rider 2 Shafer and Nutwell 3 Shafer
and Nutwell
Get of Sire
1 Orndortf s Belgians 2 Orndorft s Belgian 3
Bud and Ruth Meader
Produce of Dam
1 Orndorft s Belgians 2 Lewis Biddle Family 3
Arthur Reist
PERCHERON
5 Years and Older Stallion
1 Casey and Martha Smail
3 Year Old Stallion
1 Abraham Allebach
2 Year Old Stallion
1 Abraham Allebach 2 Casey and Martha
Smail
Yearling Mare
1 Thomas Gilmore 2 Henry Williams 3 Steven
Showalter
Foal Stallion
1 Abraham Allebach 2 James and Margaret
Smith 3 Casey and Martha Smail
Senior and Grand Champion Stallion
Abraham Allebach
Junior and Reserve Grand Stallion
Abraham Allebach
Reserve Senior Stallion
Casey and Martha Smail
Reserve Junior Stallion
Thomas Gilmore
5 Years and Older Mares
1 Thomas Gilmore 2 Elaine Dulany 3 Henry
Williams
4 Year Old Mare
1 lee Brown 2 Lee Brown 3 Eugene Weimer
3 Year Old Mare
1 Janies Colt ? Alfred Rovenolt 3 Casev and
Marth a
2 Year Old Mare
1 ifi Cole 2 Michael Rovenolt 3 Heruv
Willianio
Yearling Mare
1 Abraham Allebach 2 Thomas Gilmore 3
Casey and Marttn Small
Foal Mare
1 James and Margaret Smith 2 Thomas
Gilmore 3 Robert Gilliland
Senior and Grand Champion Mare
Thomas Gilmore
KILE Paint Horse Winners Named
HARRISBURG - A horse
woman from Pennsylvania took
top honors m the Paint Horse Show
conducted during the 30th
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition.
Crystal Garvin of Penfield
exhibited the grand champion
stallion, “Tardys Skip,” and the
grand champion mare, “Gyro
Gee,” a yearling colt and a three-
Buckeyes
Trostle
HARRISBURG - Teams from
12 agricultural colleges entered the
judging rings at the Keystone
International Livestock Exposition
and when the dust finally settled
the Ohio State Buckeyes had
slipped off with the title.
The Buckeyes amassed 4,608
points to edge Mississippi State
University’s 4,600. Northwest
Missouri University finished third,
followed by Michigan State
University and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute.
The Ohio State victory was put
together with strong second- and
third-place finishes in each of the
three competitions. The Buckeye
team was runnerup in the beef and
swine judging and third in the
sheep competition
Northwest Missouri was the high
team in the beef round, while
Mississippi State finished at the
top in swine and sheep.
Individual honors for the entire
contest went to Kevin Cheathem of
the Mississippi State team who
compiled 935 points. A Cheathem
teammate, Greg Bi own, scored 934
to tie for second with Ohio State’s
Greg Schroedei.
The Ohio Stole toam took home
the uotoimu Irophj as
ies the grand champion Belgian mare
owned by Orndorff's Belgians.
Orndorff Belgians also claimed grand champion stallion
honors. Corbly Orndorff exhibited the champion.
Junior and Reserve Grand Mare
John Cole
Reserve Senior Mare
James Cole
Reserve Junior Mare
Abraham Ailebach
year-old filly.
Finishing as reserve champions PA. The reserve champion gelding
were “Painted Jackie,” a four- was “Pheasant Plucker,” another
year-old stallion exhibited by two-year-old or under entry, that
Share Acres of Lorram, Ohio, and was exhibited by Gail A. & J.P
“Miss J. Bar Seeker,” a four year Reidenhour of Gibertsville,
old mare owned by John Clouser of Montgomery County, PA.
Dubois, Clearfield County, PA.
The champion gelding, “Don’t
Badger ME,” a two-year-old steed,
was exhibited by Nick and Barb
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Melissa Trostle accepts congratulations from Bill Holloway
of GH2 Angus Association after winning the high individual
honors in the swine judging competition and second high
individual overall.
3 Years and Younger Geldings
1 John Cole 2 John Cole 3 Leigh Brow i
Get of Sire
1 John Cole ? Alfred Rovenolt
Produce of Dam
1 Casey and Martha Smatl 2 Henrv Willhm s 3
Thomas Gilmore
Vasellas of Brogue, York County,
, Entries were received from
showmen from the state* of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia,
Maryland and New Jersey.