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aorain, lack the fine length and gentlemanlike qualities of the 
Clydesdale. M. Paul Tiberghien, of Hainault, in Belgium — 
almost the only exhibitor from that country — is specially to be 
congratulated upon his excellent, but rather short, roan stallion 
'•Bayard II.," and still more upon his superb mare "Sultana," 
whose praises have already been celebrated in this Report. If, 
as is generally believed, our own cart-horse tribes derive their 
origin from Flemish and Belgian ancestors, it will be confessed 
that we have gone so far ahead of the parent stock as to be in a 
condition curiously to scrutinise M. Paul Tiberghien's animals, 
since they suggest the original and not much altered materials 
from which our Suffolks, Clydesdales, and English cart-horses 
have by gradual evolution been matured. 
Norman and Anrjlo-Norman Stallions. — M. Edmond De La 
Ville had this class almost to himself; and although some of 
his exhibits were singularly plain about the head, and faulty 
in the cannon bones, I have seldom seen sixteen animals of 
the coaching type more uniform in character. Normandy has 
the distinction of being the most ancient horse-breeding district 
in France, and its proximity to England enabled the Norman 
farmers long ago to import good stallions from this country, 
which have gradually so improved the equine race in those 
parts, that M, Edmond De La Ville may now claim to meet 
our coaching and roadster classes upon terms of equality, if 
not something more. It is alleged by the French Judges that 
the best animal entered for this class was taken ill and 
unable to appear in the show-ring; but many of the speci- 
mens exhibited were admirably adapted to get coach and 
omnibus horses for English use, and occasionally a superior 
excellence of knee-action promised well for the production of 
roadsters, as in the case of the shapely three-year-old stallion 
" Ukase." It is, indeed, impossible to contemplate this class 
without reflecting upon the obligations due from Normandy to the 
late French Emperor, who was never weary of encouraging the 
residents in the Eure, in Calvados, and in the adjoining Depart- 
ments, to make the most of their advantages in soil and climate, 
so as to produce troop-horses for the French army. The prices 
paid for cavalry horses by the Fiench Government have always 
been in excess of those allowed in this country ; and if, as is 
promised in the last reports, this tariff is to be lowered, it will 
be mainly through the enterprise and sagacity of such breeders 
as M. Edmond De La Ville, who might well have left some of 
bis Anglo-Norman stallions behind him in England, without 
disadvantage to those of our farmers who desire a substitute for 
the expiring Cleveland breed. 
