Report on the Horses Exhibited at Windsor. 663 
those shown at Windsor, I may, I hope, be pardoned for repeat- 
ing what I wrote in connection with the mares of mature age, 
viz. that fifteen- and sixteen-stone hunters must not be expected 
out of any of the two- or three-year-old fillies. 
Yearlings. — There were nearly forty of these entered — the 
sexes were mixed in this class — and they were invested with 
peculiar interest from the fact that the opportunity was now for 
the first time afforded of seeing whether any of the youngsters 
were sired by the winners of the premiums given by the Royal 
Agricultural Society for the first time at Newcastle in 1887. As 
a matter of fact two only of the Newcastle winners were repre- 
sented, they being "Knight Templar" and " Storm Signal"; but 
neither of the youngsters by them found their way into the 
prize list. Mr. Martin's " Oliver Cromwell " (own brother to " Olive 
Cromwell" shown in the Two-year-old Filly Class) came to Wind- 
sor with the distinction of having won at Peterborough, but he 
was beaten by his stable companion, " Dorothy," to whom Third 
Prize was given, the first rightly enough going to Mr. Sherratt's 
fine-grown colt by "Vibration," whose hocks were his worst point. 
The breeding classes may be dismissed with the remark that 
there should be some excellent stock in future years, and that 
the standard is now considerably higher than it was even a 
dozen years ago. If we could have but seen the names of more 
tenant farmers in the catalogue there would have been still 
greater cause for satisfaction. 
Hunters Ridden. — The remainder of the hunters were ridden. 
In comparison with last year the four-year-old geldings were 
numerous, there being thirty-four against the nineteen of 1888 ; 
but two of them only, viz., the Stand Stud Company's " PU- 
grim " and Mr. J. T. Eobinson's " Vanquish," competed as 
three-year- olds at Nottingham; and, curiously enough, these 
two were next to each other in the catalogue then as now. 
Mr. Ernest Brown is always formidable in the Hunter Classes, 
and on the present occasion followed up many earlier successes 
by taking the first two prizes with " Sunshine " by " Garston," 
and the " Marquis " by " Zingari." The former's colour, a 
golden chestnut, and his superior condition were in his favour ; 
and he is also up to more weight than the " Marquis," bred by 
the Marquess of Waterford (described by the exhibitor in the 
entry form as " breeder unknown "), and who has not long been 
taken up. Consequently, he does not at present carry much 
flesh ; but in the course of the season he has taken several first 
prizes ; he shows plenty of quality, and moves after the fashion 
of a thoroughbred one. Mr. Mitchelson's " Prophet " also moved 
in good form ; but between these three and the rest of the class 
