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Class 18. Mares and Foals. — An extraordinary good class. Xo. 280, first 
prize, a grand-looking animal, very wide, good action, plenty of substance and 
quality. No. 281, second prize, a fine animal, good action with quality. 
No. 284, third prize, a good wide mare, with plenty of bone and hair. 
Nos. 285, 286, two good animals; and the whole class worthy of com- 
mendation. 
Class 21. — No. 334, a very nice filly, full of quality. No. 321, a nice 
active filly. No. 335, a filly with good hair and hone. No 320, an upstanding 
filly. 
Class 24. — No. 350, a nice filly, full of quality. No. 356, an active filly. 
No. 359, a wide filly, with good action. Nos. 357, 364, 368, fair-looking 
fillies. 
Class 27. — No. 410, a good-sized wide filly. No. 404, a good-looking filly. 
No. 415, a nice filly, good bone and hair, and low in condition. No. 414, a 
fair-looking filly. 
Class 34. — A very good class indeed. No. 466, a grand pair of geldings, 
good match. No. 469, two grand mares, but not so good a match. Nos. 465, 
467, 468, three very good pairs. 
Class 35. — A very good class indeed. No. 476, first prize, a splendid 
gelding, with fine action. No. 478, second prize, a great, strong, useful 
animal. No. 475, third prize, a thick, useful animal. Nos. 480, 479, 481, 
commended. 
Class 36. — A weak class, nothing special. 
Class 37. — No entry. 
Class 38. — A grand class of seventeen entries. No. 497, first prize, an 
extraordinary mare, full of quality, and fine mover. No. 492, second prize, a 
grand mare and fine mover. No. 494, third prize, a mare full of quality. 
Nos. 493, 485, 495, 496, 501, all good mares. 
William Thomas Lamb. 
John Lewin Cubtis. 
Alexander Ttjrnbull. 
Clydesdales. 
It would not be easy for the breeders interested in this valuable 
tribe — of which 37 male and 43 female specimens, both sexes 
being of rare excellence, were entered at Kilburn — to over- 
estimate the debt of gratitude due to the Earl of Dunmore for 
the retrospective volume of the Clydesdale Stud Book, which is 
the result of his research and labour. The able compiler 
modestly acknowledges his obligations for the assistance received 
by him from the members of the Editing Committee, and from 
other Scotch gentlemen whose names he enumerates ; but they 
would be the first to confess that credit must in this connection 
primarily be rendered to the noble lord himself. The Clydes- 
dale breed is the result of very careful selection of native and of 
English horses for nearly a century, and its present excellence is 
undoubtedly attributable to the fact that in the eighteenth century 
Scotch farming and ploughing were far in advance of those pre- 
vailing in any other part of the United Kingdom ; and such being 
the case, the intelligence of Scotch farmers in the district from 
which the tribe takes its name, addressed itself readily to the 
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