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The Show of Thoroughbred Stallions. 
The Royal Commissioners on Horse Breeding offered twenty-two 
" Queen's Premiums " of 200/. each for Thoroughbred Stallions 
(three years old and upwards), on condition that each stallion 
winning a premium should serve not less than fifty half-bred mares, 
if required, during the season of 1890, and should stand or travel at 
the owner's option in the district for which he is exhibited, at a fee 
not exceeding forty shillings for each mare, and two shillings and 
sixpence to the groom. 
These Premiums were intended to subsidise six-sevenths of Eng- 
land and Wales, in accordance with the district map of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, the remaining district being under- 
taken this year by the Royal Agricultural Society, who offered three 
Premiums of 200/. each, with a special Gold Medal. 
The Judges of the Thoroughbred Stallions were the Earl of 
Coventry, Croome Court, Severn Stoke, Worcestershire (acting in 
the place of Viscount Combermere, who was unable to officiate) ; Mr. 
William Baird, Barleythorpe Hall, Oakham ; and Mr. W. Dunne, 
Ballymanus, Stradbally, Queen's County. The veterinary inspectors 
were Mr. Alexander C. Cope, Board of Agriculture, 44 Parliament 
Street, S.W. ; Mr. T. D. Lambert, Store Street, Dublin ; and Mr. 
John Lawson, Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester. 
The following are the J udges' awards : — 
District Class A (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge- 
shire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, 
Oxfordshire, and Suffolk). — 14 entries. Three Queen's Premiums : 
No. 9, Mr. Walter Gilbey's Pearl-Diver ; No. 12, Mr. Leopold de 
Rothschild's Rosival ; No. 1 4, Mr. Burdett-Coutts's Truefit. Re- 
serve : 1st, No. 7, Mr. T. Jennings's Montague. 
District Class B (Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, 
Westmoreland). — 8 entries. Three Queen's Premiums: No. 17, Mr. 
Nathaniel Clark's Even; No. 18, the Earl of Durham's Glendale ; 
No. 19, Mr. E. H. Banks's Moss Hawk. Reserve: 1st, No. 15, 
Mr. W. Steel's Blue Grass; 2nd, No. 22, Mr. M. Young's Uxbridge ; 
3rd, No. 20, Sir H. B. Meux's Pull Together. 
District Class C (Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, 
Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Rutlandshire). — 17 en- 
tries. Three Queen's Premiums : No. 23, The Earl of Lonsdale's 
Blue Blood; No. 25, Mr. J. E. Piatt's Connanght ; No. 36, Mr. 
Haslewood's Suleiman. Reserve : 1st, No. 35, Mr. J. W. Simpson's 
Roll Call ; 2nd, No. 37, Mr. H. Martin's The Jolly Friar ; 3rd, 
No. 31, Mr. A: J. Brown's Maccmlay. » 
District Class D (Berkshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, 
Hampshire, Kent, Somersetshire, Surrey, Sussex, and Wiltshire). — 
17 entries. Three Premiums of 200/. each, and Gold Medal, given 
by the Boyal Agricultural Society : No. 43, Mr. G. P. Finch's 
Eclipse ; No. 47, Mr. Isaac Clark's Jack Tar ; No. 48, Mr. Alex. 
Taylor's Lancastrian. Reserve : 1st, No. 50, the Compton Stud 
Company's Masquc-de- F<r ; 2nd, No. 42, Lieutenant-General O. L. 
Cope- Williams's Bruar ; 3rd, No. 56, Mr. G. Jeffery's Young Glen 
Arthur. 
