Report on the Horses ExJiihited at Windsor. 5G9 
Reserve Number for the Gold Medal. None of the class, how- 
ever, were remarkable for action ; though possibly in days to 
come the breaker may be able to work some improvement in 
this respect. The yearling stallions were also deficient in action 
as well as in bone. 
This gives me a convenient opportunity for remarking that 
I the majority of men who show horses in hand are not quite 
up to the work, and might learn a useful lesson from the 
runners at Tattersall's or Aldridge's. No horse can do himself 
justice when his head is hauled round to one side, or when he 
is checked at every stride ; yet at every show in England horses 
are to be seen in charge of unskilful runners, many of whom 
turn round and look their charge full in the face, than which 
nothing is better adapted to make a horse show badly. 
The coaching or Cleveland mares and foals were perhaps the 
best class in this department of the Show. Unlike the breeders 
of hunters and racehorses, those who rear Clevelands like the 
mares to foal late in the year, and to this cause must be assigned 
the paucity of entries, which were five only. Mr. Kelsey's 
"Patience," by that excellent sire "Wonderful Lad," is a very 
shapely mai'e, especially good in front, and if she had a trifle 
more bone it would be difficult to pick a fault in her. Many a 
prize has she won, and on the present occasion she was first in her 
I class, and obtained in addition the Queen's Gold Medal, while 
her foal is a promising one. The winner of the Second Prize, 
Mr. Horsfall's "Annie," has more bone than" Patience," and moves 
well. The winner in the Three-year-old Class was never in doubt, 
as Mr. Bamford's " Princess Maud " was a long way better than 
anything shown against her. She has a better middle than the 
others, and moved in good style. There were but two two- 
year-olds, and the Second Prize was withheld. The solitary prize 
awarded fell to Mr. Horsfall's "Hazard," a well-grown filly, not at 
all leggy, and with a good body. The yearlings struck one as 
not being particularly strong, and there was certainly one in the 
class which could claim the credentials of neither Cleveland nor 
coach -horse. This was Mr. Barnett's chestnut filly "Surprise," by 
"Burnaby." She would make a good dog-cart mare, as her dam 
was, but it may be questioned whether there is much Yorkshire 
blood in her veins. 
Before dismissing the Cleveland bays and Yorkshire coach - 
horses, it is somewhat curious to note that nowhere, so far as I 
have been able to ascertain, is any mention made in coaching 
history of either of these breeds, not even in connection with the 
north roads. We find notices of blacks, greys, and chestnuts, 
which obviously could be no relations to the Cleveland bay, and 
