G76 Report on the Exliibilion of Live-Stock at Norwich. 
been to decline to use as a sire a male animal, however good it 
might be, unless he could trace its pedigree or breeding. His 
first enquiry was as to the benefit it was possible for any person 
to derive from the offering of the eight prizes of the value of 
100 guineas in the three classes for nondescripts. " To begin 
with," said he, " there are only eight entries for an equal 
number of prizes, and if one leaves out the three first-prize 
w inners, the less said of the classes the better ; except, perhaps, 
of the winner of the third prize in the Class for Stallions ; this 
horse was so exactly like one which was shown at the 1885 
London Shire Horse Show, in the Three-year-old Class, and at 
the last Norfolk Spring Show as a Shire, that he felt compelled 
to ask himself how it could be eligible for the class in which 
it is now shown." Many other persons asked themselves the 
same question, to which the owner of the horse will doubtless 
be able to give a satisfactory answer. The first prize in Class 11 
was won by a magnificent stallion shown by Mr. D. Riddell 
— " Prince of Avondale," which was bred by the late Mr. L. 
Drew ; he is a beautiful mover, of a good colour, and has 
legs as hard as iron, feet and hair grand, and has the head 
and appearance of a stallion, yet is as kind and playful as a 
kitten. The only Mare with Foal shown in Class 20 was a 
splendid brown, and one of the grandest mares seen of late ; she 
is the property of Mr. W. R. Trotter, who has failed to discover 
her breeder, but she is evidently a cross between the Clydesdale 
and the Shire Breeds. Lord Hastings must have been possessed 
of hope and faith when he sent " Charity " to compete in the 
Class for Three-year-old Fillies. On this occasion " Charity " 
was not only credited, but rewarded with a first prize for her 
good action, and her other qualities. 
Beport of the Judges of Clydesdales and Agricultural Horses. 
Eegarding the Clydesdales as a whole, we have to report that, notwith- 
standing the distance of the Show from Scotland, and from the localities in 
England where studs of that hrecd are situated, they are not only good 
in themselves, but as <rood a representative of tlie breed as was ever seen at 
any Exhibition of the Royal, the Kilburn Show excepted. 
Eight Thj-ee-y ear-old Stallions were exhibited in Class 4. The four horses 
to which the prizes were awarded are veiy good, the first and second ones 
specially so, there being rather a close tie between them. The first-prize one, 
No. 55, had the advantage of the second, No. 48, in moving more freely, and 
in being more evenly balanced all over; but the latter was better in his hocks 
and hind pasterns than the former. 
Ci-Ass 5. — There were ten horses exhibited in this class, and here, again, 
the first four are good horses of nice quality. The first-prize horse. No. 60, 
has nice quality of bone, feet, and hair, and moves well. The second. No. 57, 
also moves well. Besides not bdng in such good bloom as the first, he is 
altogether a jilaincr horse. The third-i)rizc horse. No. 07, a roan, has great 
