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bay combines an inch more size, with rare action ; 

 and a black fourteen-two cob of Mr. Baldwin's has 

 earned a much more worthy mention than we can 

 give him, by winning the first hackney- stallion prize 

 at the last Norfolk Agricultural Show. Lord Hast- 

 ings has also two hackney stallions of the Fireaway 

 breed, which are occasionally seen in harness ; and 

 his horse Beehunter, so famed for his Clincher and 

 Knight of Avenel struggles, is well adapted for a 

 cross with the agricultural mares (as strong and ac- 

 tive a colony of bays and browns as any county can 

 show), which are almost the only ones left to plod 

 over this great sheep and partridge preserve of the 

 East. Tom Moody, dam by Smolensko, and the 

 winner of the 30 Hunter Stallion Prize at the 

 last Royal Agricultural Show, by The Flyer, has 

 long since earned his laurels there; and besides 

 a number of valuable hunters and harness horses, 

 Sebastopol, who lately went to the King of Sardinia's 

 stable for 500 guineas, and the Unfortunate Youth, 

 must be placed to his credit-side. The latter, whose 

 stock have abundance of size and good looks, derived 

 his name from his having been injured in his youth 

 by the bite of a boar, which rendered him lame for 

 life ; a catastrophe which furnishes a grand historical 

 parallel to that of poor Gameboy and the scythe, or 

 the horse of an unhappy clerical friend of ours, which 

 nerved itself as effectually as a V.C. lancet could have 

 done it, by treading on the handle of an axe, that 

 lay across its path, last October, in an inn archway. 



Hampshire is not a great hunter-breeding county, 

 and many of its best young horses reach Collins 

 through Mr. Henry Barnes, the dealer, of Andover. 

 Mr. Assheton Smith's stud, of which Apsley (who 

 was bought from Lord Bathurst), Escape, The Sul- 

 tan, Raglan, &c. } are now among the best known, 

 used to be purchased principally from Tom Smart of 

 Cricklade ; but since his death, Mr. Smith has prin- 

 cinallv de?h v. ith Mr. Reeves, of Marlborough. The 



