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512 Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Manchester. 
class 16 is not mentioned. In a separate Report, sent in by one 
of them, the following remarks on it are made : — 
Class 16. Hunter (Mare or Gelding), not less than 4 years old, up to 
not less than twelve stones. — There were twenty-eight entries, but not many 
first-class animals. " Brian Boru " was far away the most valuable horse ; he 
is a fine goer, and would have been more proiDerly placed iu Class 12. 
" Terrona " is a taking looking horse, and has, wc hear, been a frequent 
winner, but he does not go so well as he looks, and his shoulders are not nicely 
placed. 
There can be little doubt that the opinion here expressed is 
a right one, amply confirmed by the tenour of the remarks made 
by the public. The class Avas a very indifferent one. Where 
there was evidence of good breeding, there was a distressing 
absence of action, and where there was good action, there was a 
deficiency of breeding. 
The special prize of 30/., given by the Manchester Local 
Committee to the best hunter in any of the " hunter " classes, was 
awarded to Sir George Cholmley's chestnut gelding " Don Juan," 
the winner of the first prize in class 13. Major Barlow's brown 
gelding, "Topstoll," was second in merit for this prize, in the 
opinion of the Judges ; and it must have cost them, one would 
think, no little trouble in coming to their decision. 
It would be right to add that in the separate Report alluded 
to above, several points are brought out, which are not contained 
in the joint Report of the Judges. For instance, taking the 
7th and 11th classes together, it is remarked that, in the opinion 
of the writer, the Society has never brought together so many 
mares and stallions likely to be of service to the country. 
Class 13 is hardly spoken of in as high terms as in the joint 
Report, although the winner "Don Juan" is warmly praised, 
as a "very stylish improving colt, nearly, if not quite, thorough- 
bred, and likely to make a first-class hunter." He was placed 
second as a 2-year-old at Thirsk, and first as a 3-year-old at 
Wetherby. 
Of the remaining classes, consisting of stallions for getting 
hackneys; stallions for getting coach-horses; mares for breeding 
hackneys ; roadsters ; harness-horses ; ponies, &c., the following 
is the Judges' Report : — 
Wc commenced our work with Class 8, for hackney stallions, and were soon 
able to select three good-lookinn; horses from which to choose the 1st Prize, No. 
78. Mr. Tuffit's " Fire-away," though minus an eye from an accident, we 
placed first, finding him a more compact horse, and truer in his action, than 
No. 75, Mr. Dent's " Ambition," who, though a fine goer, rather fights and 
dishes. The rest are only moderate specimens of their class. 
Class 9. Stallion for getting Coach-Horses. — No. 97, " Young Eton," was 
clearly the finest horse as a carriage-horse in the class, and we placed him first. 
" Octavian," No. 89, is also a good coach-horse, and will be better, being only 
three years old ; and third, but not the most imlikely of the three to get 
