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As these are the Stallions in which the Society is this year more 
particularly interested, details as to their breeding are subjoined : — 
Eclipse, chestnut, foaled 1883. Sire, Etbus, or Van Aniburgh ; 
dam, Tormentor by King Tom ; g.d., Torment by Alarm. Exhibitor, 
Mr. G. P. Finch, The Briars, Alphington, Exeter ; breeder, Mr. 
Benjamin Ellam, Piccadilly. 
Jack Tar, brown, foaled 1881. Sire, Jolly Tar ; dam, Water 
Lily by Mariner ; g.d., Lily by Cape Flyaway Exhibitor and 
breeder, Mr. Isaac Clark, The Manor, Heddington, Calne, Wilts. 
Lancastrian, brown, foaled 1870. Sire, Toxophilite ; dam, 
Lady Sefton by West Australian ; g.d., Clarissa by Pantaloon. 
Exhibitor, Mr. Alexander Taylor, Manton House, Marlborough; 
breeder, the Glasgow Stud. 
The Hunter Stallion Committee of the Society has decided that 
these Stallions shall be stationed during the present season as 
follows : — Eclipse in the Exeter District at his owner's stables, The 
Briars, Alphington, Exeter ; Jack Tar in the Plymouth District ; 
and Lancastrian in the Windsor District, at the South Lea Farm, 
Datchet. Their period of service will extend from March 20 to 
June 20, after which they will be exhibited (but not for competition ) 
at the Society's showyard at Plymouth, from June 23 to 27. The 
District Committees, to whom will be referred all questions relating 
to these Stallions during their season of service, have been constituted 
as follows : — 
Eclipse : Mr. Henry Drew, Peamore Cottage, Exeter ; Major- 
General Drewe, The Grange, Honiton ; Mr. William Lethbridge, 
Courtlands, Exeter ; Major-General Talbot, Buckerell Lodge, Exeter. 
Jack Tar : Mr. Wm Corvton, M.F.H., Ermefield House, Ivy- 
bridge, Devon : Mr. W. King, Southside Street, Plymouth : Mr. R. E. 
Paige, St. Germans, Cornwall ; Mr. Edward St. Aubyn, Glynn, 
Bodmin, Cornwall. 
Lancastrian : Mr. Percy E. Crutchley, Sunninghill Park, Ascot ; 
Sir Henry Simpson, Gordon House, Windsor; Mr. Wm. Tait, Shaw 
Farm, Windsor. 
District Class E (Yorkshire). — 8 entries. Three Queen's 
Premiums : No. 61, Mr. J. H. Stephenson's Knight Templar ; No. 
62, Sir Robert Jardine's Reveller-. No. 63, Lord Middleton's Spectre 
Lord. Reserve : No. 59, Mr. A. O. Hasle wood's Chip Chase. 
District Class F (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouth- 
shire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and 
South Wales). — 14 entries. Three Queen's Premiums : No. 66, 
Mr. T. Carr's Crom-a-Boo : No. 76, Mr. JohnRees's Scherzo; No. 77, 
Mr. G. L. Abbot's Tomahavk. Reserve : 1st, No. 75, Mr. W. E. 
Litt's Q.C. ; 2nd, No. 69, Mr. J. E. Rees's Ivanhoe; 3rd, No. 67, Mr. 
A. Sherratt's Donald Caird. 
District Class G (Cheshii-e, Lancashire, and North Wales). — 
8 entries. Three Queen's Premiums : No. 83, Mr. C. A. Kemble's 
Sam Kheen ; No. 84, Mr. J. E. Piatt's Silver Crown ; No. 85, Mr. 
John Rees's Snowdown ; Reserve : 1st, No. 86, Mr. C P. Lees's 
Strathavon. 
