878 = 612 The Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
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which has been conferred on the breeders of those kinds of 
sheep and cattle which had not before been recognised by the 
Society, in consequence of the continuation of the policy then 
commenced, must many times exceed in value the drain which 
the Exhibition entailed upon the Society's funds. At that 
Meeting the Stock Prize-sheet was expanded to include classes 
for the following recognised English and Scotch breeds ot 
Horses, Cattle, and Sheep, in addition to others for certain H 
foreign races of cattle : — 'fi 
Horses. ^ 
Thoroughbred — Hunters — Carriage — Roadsters — Suffolk Agricultural- 
Agricultural (not qualified to compete as Suffolks) — Clydesdale — Dray 
Ponies. 
Cattle. 
Shorthorns — Herefords — Devons — Sussex — Longhorned — Norfolk and 
Suffolk Polled — Welsh — Irish — Channel Islands (Jerseys and Guernseys)— 
Polled Aberdeen and Angus — Polled Galloway — Highland — Ayrshire. 
Sheep. 
Leicester — Lincoln — Cotswold — Kentish, or Eomney Marsh — Long-wooUed' i-f 
— Irish pure native Long-woolled — Southdowns — Shropshire — Hampshire and ^ 
West Country Down — Oxfordshire Downs — Dorset — Mountain — Blackfaced— \ 
Cheviot. 
The majority of the newly recognised English breeds con- 
tained in the foregoing list have since retained their place in 
the Annual Prize-sheet of the Society, especially the Channel 
Island and Sussex cattle, and the Cotswold, Lincoln, Oxford- 
shire Down and Hampshire Down sheep ; while the Norfolk 
and Suffolk, the Longhorn and the Scotch breeds of cattle, the 
Kentish, the Dorset, and the different Moor and Mountain breeds 
of sheep receive due recognition whenever the Society's Meeting 
is held within a reasonable distance of the limited districts 
in which they severally prevail. 
In its efforts to encourage the breeds of horses the action of 
the Society has been similar to that which has just been sketched 
in reference to cattle and sheep. Commencing at Oxford and con- }. 
tinning at Cambridge with but three classes, namely cart stallions, j 
cart mares, and thoroughbred stallions, the two former were at 
the first Liverpool Show subdivided into two-year-olds and 
older horses ; and this classification appears to have satisfied 
the requirements of the times until 1855, with the exception 
that, during the most of that interval, the class for thoroughbred 
stallions was supplanted by one for " roadster " sires. At Cau'- 
lisle, in 1855, the Clydesdale was recognised as a distinct breed, 
and in 1857, the thoroughbred came once more to the front, 
