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prizes ; and the object should be to cater for a multitude of 

 owners, and send home as many happy and contented prize- 

 winners as possible, rather than that several competitions 

 should be gained by the same animal. There is no greater 

 stimulant than success, nor anything more dispiriting than 

 continual defeat. It is better therefore to divide the prize- 

 money into many small sums, with several minor distinctions 

 awarded to those who receive notice from the judge, and to 

 vary the conditions in such a manner that if beaten in one class 

 a win may be still possible in another, than to give more 

 valuable but fewer prizes. Former winners may well be 

 restricted to competition amongst themselves, with only one 

 prize open to champions ; and many classes should have 

 local conditions attached to them, for the main object should 

 be to encourage breeding in the district. 



These remarks are of course intended to apply only to 

 local Shows, which should be the feeders of the great ones, 

 such as those at Islington and Richmond (Surrey), the Royal, 

 the Great Yorkshire, and the world-famous Dublin Show. 



None have been better or more judiciously managed than 

 the last-mentioned, which has grown to its present height 

 out of but small beginnings, for when located in Kildare 

 Street there was but little scope for the competitors, and 

 the funds were very low. The move to its present site was 

 the making of its success. Its ample space gave an 

 opportunity of seeing the animals to the best advantage, 

 whilst the shrewd idea of making the jumping a chief 

 feature by giving valuable prizes so as to attract good horses, 

 and then to make people pay a second entrance fee to see 

 them jump, soon provided the executive with large funds, 

 enabling it to carry out its plans without fear of the cost. 

 Other Stewards have grudgingly copied Dublin to a certain 

 extent, but not having fully grasped the idea have added 

 rather feeble jumping to their programmes ; they have not 

 gone whole-heartedly into the notion, and hence have not 

 benefited themselves pecuniarily in consequence. They 

 do not give sufficiently valuable prizes to attract good 

 horses, nor do they provide such excellent fences as at 

 Dublin, and as they feel that what they offer is but a poor 



