2 : o Saddle and Sir lain. 



the Society saved their 55/. Lincolns and Cot?wo!ds 

 came, and among the latter " Mr. Tombs's big sheep," 

 but the Ridings have no solid resting-place for the 

 sole of their feet. They have used the former on the 

 Wolds, but they did not thrive, and one Leicester 

 patriarch had a flying sarcasm at their expense, that 

 if three came in a cart, and all stood with their heads 

 on one side, they would infallibly upset it. The sheep 

 rival to the half Brahmin was one from the coasts of 

 Galilee, with a tail of I2lbs. weight, and described on 

 its card as " a combination of fat and marrow. 



Duckering, Sagar, Dyson, Eden, and all the fami- 

 liar names are to be found among the pig-winners, 

 but the judges complain of a lack of hair. It is 

 a more popular part of the show than the sheep, 

 but still it is at the horse-ring that the most earnest 

 gazers are found. Mr. Burbidge, " Jack Skip- 

 worth," and Mr. Garfit from Cheshire, make up the 

 bench. The blood sires come in first, and for the 

 third year in succession the big-boned Angelus takes 

 the first rosette. He is the property of Sir George 

 Cholmley, the oldest horse breeder in Yorkshire, and 

 from a Nutwith dam of Lord Exeter's, which was pur- 

 chased as a draft-mare at Doncaster. King Brian is 

 second, and the neat, compact Wyndham, from Raw- 

 cliffe paddocks, to whom not a few, who remember 

 how he " came to the rescue " in his racing days, hold 

 most tenaciously, gets no mention among the ten. 

 Among the coachers we look in vain for the old Cleve- 

 land bays, such as Howdenshire loved, and w r hich once 

 drew the heavy family chariot at six miles an hour. 

 They have been gradually crossed up with blood sires, 

 so that if any foal from a Cleveland mare falls smarter 

 than usual, the breeder can cut its tail, and call it a 

 hunter. In fact, a horse which a few years since was 

 almost the champion of the hunting classes all over 

 England, began his show life in a class for young coach 

 horses. The winner on this day looked as if he had 



