674 Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Norwich. 
in which the mare was exhibited reflected "great credit on the 
respected manager of the Royal Farms in Norfolk. Two grand 
mares and great prize-winners, Mr. Walter Gilbey's " Chocolate," 
and the Hon. E. Coke's " Czarina," were placed second and 
third, high commendations being given to two other good mares 
belonging to Mr. W. Welcher and Mr. J. S. Nunn. 
Beport of the Judges on Shire Horses. 
Class 1. Shire Stallion foaled in 1883.— Sixteen entries, three absentees ; 
fair class. First prize (and also Chamj^ion as the best Shire Stallion in 
Classes 1, 2, and 3) was awarded to No. 15, a good-looking black, with fine 
action, the right sort of bone, and splendid feet and hair. Great credit is due 
to his owner and breeder for retaining such a horse in the county. Second 
prize to No. 12, a stylisli bay, looking the worse for his season, but with good 
bone and substance ; third prize to No. 8, a grey, with capital feet and hair. 
Class 2. Shi?-e Stallion foaled in 1884. — Twenty-two entries, many 
absentees ; a good class. First prize to No. 3-i, a dark brown, with great 
substance, and all over a cart-horse ; second prize to No. 37, a bay of nice 
quality ; third to No. 25, a bay brown, of good character and type. 
Class 3. Shire Stallions foaled in 1885. — A small mixed class. 
Class 17. Shire Mare and Foal. — A small good class of four entries. 
First i^rize to No. 190, a brown, of remarkable substance, and all over a brood 
mare ; second prize to No. 185, a black short-legged mare of good quality ; 
third prize to No. 192, a very nice bay, shown under great disadvantage. 
Class 25. Shire Filly foaled in 1883. — Seven entries ; a medium class. 
The winner, No. 252, a welL-grown bay mare, with plenty of quality. 
Class 26. Shire Filly foaled in 1884.— Nine entries. First prize to 
No. 246, a good moving black, with capital feet and hair, but lacking 
substance ; second prize to No. 265, an improving gre}'. 
Class 33. Shire Mare foaled previous to the year 1883, not having a foal 
at foot. — Seven entries ; a verj' good class, all receiving notice. First prize 
(and also Champion jmze as the best Shire Mare in Classes 17, 25, 26, and 33) 
to No. 323, a black, and quite a brood mare. 
"Wm. Little. 
J. B. Hill. 
T. S. MiiJTOX. 
Clydesdales. 
The grand display of Clydesdales, one of our best and most 
noted varieties of draught horses, was a source of great pleasure 
as well as of surprise to visitors to Norwich. I scarcely ex- 
pected that it would be my duty to report of the Clydesdales 
that they made one of the best collections seen during recent 
years in the Royal Showyard, and that in some of the classes the 
exhibits were of such a high order of merit that the Judges 
might with ease have selected a second lot of animals fully de- 
serving a place in the prize-list. In the Class for Three-year-old 
Stallions the first-prize winner did not appear to have such good 
ancles and flat bone as Mr. G. Rodger's " Little Jock Elliott." 
The legs and feet, as well as the hind action of the Marquis of 
