A26-Lanc*it#r Farming, Saturday, January 15, 1994
Sherwood Farms Takes Supreme Draft Horse At Farm Show
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) It was a day for the young
horses to shine as Sherwood
Farms, a two-farm, 150-acre oper
ation run by Donald Sherwood and
Gary and Brandon Groves, of
Tunkhannock, showed the
supreme draft horse at the state
Farm Show last Saturday, taking
home their first grand and supreme
championship title.
While Windermere Farms out of
Spring Mills, and Omdorffs Bel
gians, out of Waynesburg, two
seemingly perennial winners at the
Farm Show, aqd a number of other
regular exhibitors faired well, the
Sherwoods, relative newcomers to
the Farm Show draft horse com
petitions, showed their young
mare, a foal at last year’s Farm
Show, to place First among the top
mare’s and stallions of each of the
three breed divisions.
Bom April 1992, SGF Dodie
Marie, a Belgian was ranked by
judge Crae Eller, from Arcadia,
Indiana, over her half-brolher, the
top Belgian stallion, shown by
Omdorff’s Belgians.
The Omdorff champion stallion
was the junior champion, out per
forming the senior champion Bel
gian shown by Jerry and Shirley
Ray, of Shelocta.
In fact, it was Omdorff’s multi
grand champion of the Farm Show
Belgian stallion, Omdorff s Con
golaise Supreme, who sired both
the grand champion Belgians and
the reserve champion Belgian.
Marie was junior champion and
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defeated OmdorfTs senior champ
ion mare for the grand champion
title. Sherwood Farms also showed
the reserve senior champion mare.
According to Donald Sher
wood, his interest in horses stems
back to his late uncle Donald L.
Williams, “Who was quite a horse
man,” he said. “I didn’t grow up on
a farm, still we have two genera
tions of horsemen.”
His uncle, on his mother’s side,
raised some horses and Donald,
who was named after his unde,
used to help out at the fartn. He
now is a Chevrolet dealer in Tunk
hannock and in 1976 started with
horses.
He said he’s been working with
Gary and Brandon Groves since
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The partnership is noted for
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and caps.
In all, they have 16 Belgians and
three Percheron on the farm. They
have shown Marie at Syracuse,
Hughsville, Troy and Ohio, and
said that the Keystone Internation
al Livestock Exposition (KILE) is
a big show for them.
The reserve grand champion
Belgian stallion was shown by
Paul Yoder, of Peach Bottom, also
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a regular exhibitor at the Farm
Show. He also showed the reserve
junior champion stallion.
In the other breeds, Windermere
Farms showed the grand champion
Percheron stallion, the reserve
champion stallion, the senior
champion mare, the reserve senior
champion mare, and the junior
champion stallion. *
However, a mare shown by
Cheryl Zimmerman, of Northamp
ton, Was grand champion mare and
named best of the breed.
In the Clydesdale/shire division,
Abraham and Mary Allebach, also
regular winners at the state Farm
Show, showed the best of the
breed, the grand champion mare.
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ion mare, the senior and grand
champion stallion, and the reserve
grand champion mare.
BELGIAN DIVISION
Belgian Stall km, a Yrt.: 1. Jarry A Shir
toy Ray, Shalocta.
Mglan Stallion 2 Yre.: I.Omdorfftßel
giant, Waynetburg.
Mglan Stallion, 1 Yr.: 1. Paul Yoder,
Paaoh Bottom.
Belgian StalOon, Peal; 1. Donald Patter
ion, WayneehUrg; 2. Either Lapp, Klnzara; 3.
Jerry A Shirley Ray, Shalocta.
Mglan Stallion, Solder Champion: 1 .
Jerry A Shirley Ray, Shalocta.
Mglan Slalllen, Junior Champion; 1.
OmdortTa Balglane, Wayneeburg.
Balglan Stallion, Rooarvo Jr. Champ
ion: 1. Paul Yoder, Peach Bottom.
Mglan Stallion, Grand Champion: 1.
Orndorffe Belgian*, Waynaaburg.
Balglan Stallion, Reserve Grand
Champion: 1. Paul Yoder, Peach Bottom.
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