512 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Newcastle. 
As a class, the Yearling Colts were not so good. Mr. Peter 
Blundell took the lead with "Premier Fashion," a very big, 
powerfully built brown, rather short in the hind pasterns, and 
stiff in movement. He was bred by Mr. Samuel Saint, Dairy 
House, Alkmonton, Derby, and got by the famous sire, 
" Premier " (2646), dam by " Tom King " (4752). Some would 
have preferred Mr. T. H. Miller's second colt " Moloch," an 
attractive bay of considerable promise, bred by Swarbrick. 
Brothers, Hey Houses, Lytham, Lancashire, and got by " Fen 
Champion" (3085). Mr. W. Burdett-Coutts, i\LP., got the 
third prize for a good bay colt " The Baron," which, when 
known as " Leake Jubilee," won the first prize at London 
Spring Show. 
In the class for Mares and Foals there were eleven entries, 
two animals being absent. It was above the average in merit, 
although several better Shire mares than any exhibited here 
have come out in recent years. The Earl of EUesmere's first- 
prize mare, " jNIiss Stonton," has many admirers and not a few 
detractors. She is not perfect, not in any sense of the term 
a meritorious animal, yet she is a useful sort of a mare, 
strongly built, and well put together. The Judges describe 
her as " a thick heavy mare of quite the right type." The 
opinion of these gentlemen is entitled to much weight, yet the 
writer could not go so far as to say that she is perfect in " type." 
" Miss Stonton " has won manv prizes, and was here declared 
the best among the mares and fillies. She was bred by jNIr. G. 
Chapman, Langham Lodge, Oakham, and got by " Stonton " 
(2065). 
The second-prize mare, " Pride of Colston," owned by Mr. 
R. M. Knowles, is a very good, low-set, useful seven-year-old 
black, with promising foal at foot, by the prize horse " Esquire " 
(2774). This mare was bred by ]Mr. Clare, Leicester, and got 
by " Ace of Trumps " (17). INIr. Walter Gilbey's third mare, 
" Startling," is a thick, strong roan, of a good cart-horse stamp, 
bred by himself, and got by " Champion " (2410). She had a 
nice foal at foot, by the double-Champion " Spark " (2497). 
There was a good Class of Three-year-old Fillies, yet Mr. W. 
Bouch's very handsome and promising brown filly, " Wild- 
flower," was a clear enough first. She has won " all round " at 
the Summer Shows, and looks like growing into a grand mare. 
She is well formed, stylish, and active ; bred by her owner, got 
by "Reality" (2882), and out of " Hitchin Flower," by "Tom 
of the Shires " (2682). She was marked as the " reserve " for the 
best filly, and some good judges would have been inclined 
to have given her the special prize over " Miss Stonton/* 
Mr. Walter Gilbey had a good second in "Shire Style," a nice- 
