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Bejoort on ihc Horses 'Exhibited at Windsor. 
601. apiece ; and two at 50Z. each. Since that time pony 
owners have never looked back, and the standard and value of 
these diminutive steeds have gone on increasing, until, at the 
present time, I have good authority for saying that something 
like 500^. would be forthcoming for Mr. William Pope's brown 
pony " Fanny," by " Red Robin," who, at Windsor, won First 
Prize for harness ponies not exceeding thirteen hands, in 
addition to numberless firsts all over the country. 
It was not, however, till the year 1848, when the Royal 
Show was held at York, that light horses came in for much 
attention ; and I trust I may be pardoned for saying that even 
then it was only chance. In honour of the occasion the York- 
shire Show was not held that year ; the lesser was content to be 
merged in the greater — so the Yorkshire Agricultural Society 
made a handsome contribution towards the working expenses 
of the Royal, and 210Z. found its way into the " horse depart- 
ment." The Royal Agricultural Society maintained its own 
programme of 5 classes for agricultural horses ; but, by way of 
acknowledgment to other Yorkshire friends, added out of the 
contributed funds 7 classes for local horses in which heavy steeds 
found no place. The schedule for that year comprised classes 
for hunter sires ; for sires of carriage horses ; for roadster stal- 
lions ; for Cleveland sires ; and classes for corresponding mares 
and foals. Norwich and Exeter, it must be confessed, did little 
for light horses ; but at Windsor, in 1851, classes were devoted 
to hunters, coaching, and roadster stallions respectively, and a 
class for Norfolk mares and foals crept into the programme. 
Afterwards agricultural horses monopolised most attention 
till 1855, when at Carlisle there were extra classes for thorough- 
bred and coaching stallions, also for hunter fillies and geldings ; 
and at the Chelmsford Show in 185G, some special prizes were 
given for which hunters again had a chance. The giving of 
prizes for hunter fillies and geldings was continued, and F. 
Barlow, in whom the reader will recognise a well-known breeder 
and authority, took the First Prize with a black-brown hunter 
gelding, " Lord Darnley " being successful in the class for two- 
year-old hunter geldings. After a good many ups and downs 
in the way of numbers and quality, the Warwick catalogue, in 
1859, showed a total of 212 horses, of which 24 were hunting 
mares or geldings. At Leeds, in 1861, a class for "blood 
hunters " was added, and, in connection with the growth and 
popularisation of horse shows, it may be noted that in this year 
for the first time the various classes were " shown day after day 
in the rings in which they had been judged" — a new departure, 
we are told, which was much appreciated by the spectators. 
