552 Ixejyorl oti (he Horses Exhibited at Windsor. 
got 20s. of value for every 11. expended. If, then, it be the fact 
that the Windsor Show cost the Royal Agricultural Society 
5,000/., there or thereabouts, no one regrets it, all having been 
done that could be done to insure success — and this we got ; 
and if it Avas all to be done over again we should do exactly the 
same. There is a time for everything, and the Jubilee Show was 
not the occasion to husband our resources, but to spend them 
judiciously. 
Last, but not least, may I tell of how the Queen was in- 
terested in the Show ? She came again and again ; and, so far 
from being wearied with her repeated visits, the interest to see 
more seemed to grow, as testified by those who were in attend- 
ance on Her Majesty when the Show was in reality breaking 
up. Can I find more fitting words to finish my report than 
" God save our Gracious Queen " ? 
XXIX. — Report on the Horses Exhibited at Windsor, 
By William A. Blew. 
The visitor to Windsor, bent upon making the horses his first 
study, might well have been amazed at the wealth of horse- 
flesh, as indicated by ninety-four pages of catalogue, and 
as much shedding as would more than suffice for the ac- 
commodation of the whole of many a provincial show. In 
short, the number of horses exhibited at Windsor was con- 
siderably in excess of that ever seen in England at any other 
show, and this record was reached without the assistance of 
foreign horses, which, in a class to themselves, helped to swell 
the entries in 1879 — the disastrous Kilburn year. But it is 
not in point of numbers alone that the fiftieth Show held 
under the auspices of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of 
England will stand out from those which have preceded it. 
With scarcely an exception, all the classes of horses were up 
to the average standard of excellence, while several of them, to 
be noticed in due course, were exceptionally good, owners and 
breeders having loyally responded to the liberality of the Council 
in making the Jubilee Show one of the most glorious on 
record. Never since the Royal was held on the Kilburn clay 
has the locale been so near London as it was in this year 
1889 ; and when, on the Monday morning, a slight rain fell in 
town, the recollection of all the horrors of ten years ago instantly 
recurred to the memory. One could but remember how " worn- 
out chargers staggered and sank " when the railway and other 
