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attention first, and he was without doubt a clear first. He is a very fine 
animal, witli liigh action and very vigorous. Nos. 2739 and 2T32, to which 
the second and tliird prizes were aunrded, as well as No. 2735, ^^ivcn the 
reserve ticket, and No. 2738 coiumeniled, are all good horses, elegant trotters, 
at a pood pace (envolure). 
Class 2-17. — The Arab mare, No. 2751, a chestnut, is well made, but too 
delicate to take ihe Uom (he others iu Ihis class. Tliese were eight 
mares, light hay in colour, and of liie distinct type of the horses of Eastern 
Prussia, which have a gieat deal of l)lt)od in them, both Arab an I English. 
They have a fine form, beautiful hind-quarters, high action, and great- agility. 
The I' gs and the sinews are perfectly Hrm (se^s). No. 2740, with tldu ribs 
and long fetlocks, and No. 2748, with liollow insteps, should not have 
been allowed to be exhibited by a Society which sent such remarkably 
good horses as Nos. 2742, 2(4!>, and 2741, which cirried off the three first 
prizes, as well as No. 2744 (reserve nunibL>r), and No. 2750, which was 
highly commended. 
(Signed) Comte dk Schlieffen. 
COMTE DE BOOILLK. 
A. llONNA. 
McLES AND Asses. 
It is but too probable that the readers of this Report may be 
prompted to exclaim, in the words quoted by Mr. Gladstone at 
the end of one of his longest Budget speeches — 
" Immensum spatiis confecimus aequor, 
Et jam tempus equum fumantia solvere colla." 
Long, however, as has been my disquisition upon horseflesh, it 
would not be difficult to write as much again upon the theme 
of the half-dozen little-noticed and uninviting animals con- 
tributed by Mr. Charles Leslie Sutherland, by the Duke of 
Beaufort, and by Mr. Edward Pease — all of them enthusiastic 
believers in mules — to the last four classes in the Catalogue. 
The presence of these ungainly quadrupeds at Kilburn was 
made known to the ear rather than to the eye ; nor were they 
ever brought before the public without provoking a roar of 
laughter from the spectators who had greeted with hearty 
applause the successful saltatory exhibition of Mr. Andrew 
Brown's " Gambler," when, despite his rider's efforts to stop 
him, the irrepressible chesnut gelding jumped the rails which 
ran across the centre of the ring. 
Nevertheless there were present at Kilburn some eye-witnesses 
who had seen not a little of the prodigious Civil War which 
raged in the United States between 1861 and 1865, and to them 
Mr. Sutherland's mules appeared to be rather objects of admi- 
ration than of ridicule. The mule has, up to the present time, 
made little way in the affections of Englishmen ; and among the 
