280 Saddle and Si? loin. 



the Society saved their 55/. Lincolns and Cotswolds 

 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- 

 clifTe 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 which 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 



