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good harness horses, the " Hadji," No. 95, who, though showing liglit along- 
side the two best liorses, lias both quality and action. 
Class 10, for Pony Stallions, was decidedly inferior, and No. 103, " Tom 
Sayers," was easily the winner. 
Class 17 contained some useful squary sort of Marcs, but were all of 
them deficient in quaUty, and would require to be put to a thorough-bred 
horse to produce a gentleman's hack ; the firstrjirizo mare was a long way 
the best, No. 229, Mr. Cook's " British Queen." 
Class 18 had only one pair of carriage-horses, which we thought worthy of 
the first prize. 
Class 19. One entry, a Mare. — Very irritable, and we did not consider her 
entitled to the first prize, and, therefore, presented her with the blue rosette. 
Class 20 was only small, but showed us two promising colts. No. 239, 
the first-prize horse, being exceedingly handsome, and No. 240 also a very 
promising colt. 
Class 21 was both a large and a good one, and it took us some time to 
pLace the winner. We found it a difficult matter to decide between Nos. 
246 and 250, as they were both excellent goers, but the old maro«5howed 
both fine quality and superb action, and received the first prize. No. 254, 
Mr. Murray's " Perfection," is a remarkably clean -shaped one, and also a 
good goer, and has the reserved number. 
Class 22 was well represented, but there was nothing of extraordinary 
merit. No. 270, the first iirizc, a neat, strong ]}onj, and No. 275, a clever 
chestnut, being in our opinion the best. 
Class 23 we found of average quality ; No. 280, " Maid of All Work," is a 
good pony, and No. 284, " Hill Town Lass," the picture of a boy's hunter, 
was well ridden in the ring. 
Class 24 was a large class, and contained some clever little animals. No, 
291, "Paddy," was a strong well-shaped pony, and had good action, and 
secured the first prize ; No. 293, " Tommy," a pretty little boy's pony, with 
excellent action, was second, and No. 299, " Taffie," a jiretty grey, but more 
suitable for harness than the saddle, was the reserve number. No. 290, Miss 
Davies's " Lisette," was a clever pony, and full of quality, but showed very 
hot in the ring. 
This class brought our labours to a close, and we consider the classes that 
came before us were quite up to the average, though, perhaps, not containing 
many animals of extraordinary merit. 
The exhibition of horses, as a whole, must be certainly con- 
sidered to have been above the average, but still from one cause 
or another it is very seldom that the competition among horses 
brings out as perfect specimens of the animal as does that 
among cattle, sheep, or pigs. No one can say that prize- 
winners among thorough-bred stallions are as faultless types of 
their race as Bates or Booth bulls in the cattle classes, or 
Merton or Goodwood Southdowns in the sheep-classes are of 
their respective kinds. Horses, however, of great merit are often 
shown, and the system of open judging is educating the public 
eye to discern those particular defects or merits in an animal 
which lose or win for him the honour of a prize. 
The Judges report the class of " mares in foal, or with foal at 
foot, suitable for breeding hunters," as good ; but without ques- 
tioning their verdict upon this point, the class can hardly be said 
