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have said above, are hardly worth the liberal prizes hitherto given ; and if 
one prize of 20/. is given, and the remaining 70?. added to other classes, il 
would he pro bono publico." 
The Suffolk Horse.t had this year, for the first time, a class to 
themselves, and thej did full justice to the step thus gained by 62 
entries, or 9 more than the rest of the agiicultural and dray horses 
put together. One of the Judges speaks of their being, " as a 
whole, the best I have ever seen." " The 2-year-old colts and 
fillies," says another, "were very good classes, but might be 
improved by having a little more substance in their fore-legs, 
and rather less tendency to be heavy in their tops. The mares 
and foals made up an excellent class, containing several very 
stout, clever, and active mares, and it is rarely that I have met 
with a class so difficult to decide upon." 
It was one of the greatest treats of the horse-ring to see the 13 
2-year-old Suffolk fillies and the 20 Suffolk sires, with only one 
white face amongst them on their parade. Still, if a white blaze 
was so rare, the orthodox chesnut shtfde does not seem to be 
sufficiently defined, and there are at least three shades to compete 
with the " cherry red " of the county. Mr. Playford's prize 
horse, " Colonel," was of a rich dark hue, with a most elegantly 
turned top, but with thighs very light in proportion. Mr. Henry 
Giles, junior's "Boxer" — the winner in the 2-year-old sire class 
— was a very fine specimen of early maturity, but with less 
quality. The breeders are getting rapidly rid of the sour head 
and low forehand, but a veterinary examination still finds their 
horses deficient in their hocks and small below the knee ; and 
" if the Suffolk men would only turn their attention more to the 
feet of their animals, they will be difficult to beat for ' agricultural 
purposes.' " 
The other Ac/ricultiiral and Dray Horses " were not well 
represented. Many of the stallions had, like the Clydesdales, 
not finished the season ; and of those that came so many were 
unsound, that we were compelled to pass them over for the prizes 
in favour of inferior horses. Still the winners in Classes I. and II. 
were very useful horses," 
.Sheep. 
In the Leicester classes, which contained 66 rams and 7 pens 
of theaves, the shearling rams " were inferior to what we have 
seen," which was, perhaps, in a great measure owing to the 
inability of a leading flockmaster to send five or six of his best 
shearlings, which had " broken down in training." Throughout 
the Sheep classes the shearlings had generally the worst of it by 
the side of the old sheep, for which the fact that this year the 
Show Avas fixed earlier than usual by three weeks, at a season 
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