Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Norwich. 681 
Hackneys and Ponies. 
Members, exhibitors, and all readers of the Society's ' Journal ' 
are alike indebted to the Judges of the Hackneys and Ponies 
for their most able Report. This is so complete, concise, and 
instructive, and its conclusions so entirely in accord with 
those which I had formed after a careful survey of the animals 
in the different classes, that I find " all the wind taken out of 
my sails," and nothing left for me to do but to express to those 
Judges my thanks for so materially lightening my pleasant, if 
somewhat arduous duties. 
Bcport of the Judges on Hachieys and Ponies, (Classes 13-10, 
22-24, 46-49.) 
It is most gratifying to be able to report that we have had an excellent 
display of horses at this Show to pass judgment upon, attributable to the 
increase in the number and value of the prizes, and also, in some measure, to 
the eiforts of the various Societies that have been established to improve and 
promote the breeding of Kiding and Driving Horses. We believe we are 
correct in saying that there never has been a Eoyal Show where so many 
Hackneys and Ponies have been exhibited, the total number of animals in 
the classes judged by us numbering 120, and these do not include the Classes 
for Thoroughbred Stallions, Hunters, Hunting IMares and Foals, and Harness 
Horses. 
We have specially to mention the excellence of the younger animals, and 
particularly those in the ilare and Foal Classes. The foals were, taken alto- 
gether, a wonderful lot, and we found many at the foot of plain but useful 
dams to be full of promise, thus showing that a stamp of quality had been 
impressed upon them by judiciously mating the mares with good sires. 
There is no doubt that with the extended knowledge of the science of hor&e- 
breeding, which will necessarily result from the existence of the various 
Horse Societies, this excellence will be more than maintained in years to 
come, and that we shall have no lack of that good stamp of riding and 
driving horse, the want of which has been so long felt. 
The following detailed Report of the different classes has been arrived at 
by a comparison of the notes made by us during the judging and a subsequent 
reference to the Show Catalogue. 
Class 13. Hackney Stallions, above 15 hands, foaled pre oiously to 1883. — 
Sixteen entries. This was a new class, and for that reason did not supplj' 
many animals of the sort required, namely, big Hackney Stallions suitable 
for getting riding horses of size, and match horses. The first-prize winner, 
"Confident," brown, four years old, by "Confidence" (158), bred by Mr. 
George Jones, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk, and exhibited by Mr. John Grout, 
Woodbridge, Suffolk, was of more the stamp required, having substance and 
good action ; but he has not all the quality that one could desire, being a 
little heavy about his neck and shoulders. The second prize was awarded to 
i\Ir. L. J. Shirley's red roan, " Lord P>ang " (1030), a six-year-old by " Great 
Shot," bred by Mr. Isaac J. Bays of Chatteris, Cam.bs., a good useful animal 
that has been successful before in the prize-rings. The third prize was won 
by "Confidence" (158), brown, by " Prickwillow," foaled in 1867, bred by 
Mr. Rose, Dykebeck, "Wymondham, and exhibited by Mr. W. Dunham, 
Wymondham, Norfolk. Considering that he is nineteen years old, " Con- 
fidence" is a. wonderful animal, and has been credited with perhaps more 
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