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" Ruddigore " has this year increased his winning produce 

 to three, and again occupies the top of the list, shared last 

 year with " Blue Grass," which does not this year contri- 

 bute. " Connaught " and "Omega" again have one winner ; 

 while the other Stallions siring each a premium-taker at the 

 Society's Show in 1893 are "Blue Blood," " Eglamore," 

 "Friar Rush," " Huntingcower," "Peppermint" and "Sam 

 Kheen." Of the seven Reserve numbers three were sired by 

 Premium Sires, while six of the eleven high commendations 

 were accredited to five other Premium horses, " Ruddigore " 

 again leading the way with two in this section of honours. 



THOROUGHBRED STALLIONS. 

 The number of stallions entered to compete for the thirty Entries. 

 Queen's Premiums offered by the Royal Commission on Horse- 

 Breeding decreased in 1893 to 105, as compared with 117 in 

 1892. The Royal Agricultural Society of England did not 

 this year offer their Service Premiums, and the Royal Com- 

 mission on Horse-Breeding decided to reduce the value of the 



Queen's Premiums to £150 each and increase the number to Increase in 



Stallions 

 thirty, which enabled six stallions to be allotted to Scotland serving. 



where four were previously located, and added another stallion 



to District Class B, to District Class C and District Class F, 



thus increasing the stallions serving by five horses. 



Fourteen of the twenty-five stallions serving in 1892 were 1892 



again awarded "Queen's Premiums," while sixteen other 



stallions were selected by the Judges appointed by the Royal 



Commissioners on Horse-Breeding — the Earl of Lonsdale, 



Lord Marcus Beresford and Rev. Cecil Legard — to serve under 



the 1893 scheme. Seven of last year's winners w^eie among 



the competitors at the last show, but were not honoured. with 



awards, another, " Marshal Soult," was exhibited in the Extra 



Stock Class, while the remaining three horses were not 



entered for competition. A rule of importance was enforced 



by which a' stallion which had won four Queen's Premiums 



in the same District Class was ineligible for entry again in the 



same class, but was eligible for any other District Class. 



