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been worthy of the %t,rbs prima. What we want now is to examine the popular 

 lessons of the Show ; to see what benefit of a permanent nature the Bombay people 

 have derived from it; the respects in which it has proved of educational value, and 

 so has prodnced more influence than it could by the mere passing effect of pleasur- 

 able excitement and interest which it will have been to many. 



A large proportion of the Bombay public had never seen a horse show, much less 

 a cattle show ; another proportion had never seen either a horse or cattle show in 

 India; a few had seen the horse shows of the various parts of this Presidency, especi- 

 ally Poona and Ahmedabad ; a very few had seen horse and cattle shows held 

 locally, as in the Southern Mahratta States (Chinchli), in Guzerat, Kattywar, and 

 elsewhere. Now the Bombay Show had a distinct and special object — " to collect 

 as many of the best animals in India, horses and cattle, as may be procurable for the 

 purpose of showing them to the Prince." There resulted from the efforts of the 

 committee an assemblage of animals from several places, the outlying posts being 

 Lus Beyla in Beloochistan, Bikanir and Kotah in Bajputana, Hissar in the Punjab, 

 Bhadgaon in Khandeish, Hyderabad and Sholapore in the Deccan, and the Southern 

 Mahratta States down south. No less than twenty ruling Princes and Chiefs of 

 Western India sent animals to the Show. Though the Exhibition was thus very re- 

 presentative of Western India, the committee had reason to believe that, had more 

 time been available, the whole of India might have been represented. Practically 

 efforts were limited to one month before the Show, owing to uncertainty as to the 

 exact form the reception of his Boyal Highness should take. Let us represent in 

 tabular form what we saw at the Show and what we might have seen : — 



Horses. 



