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came into the ring only to add to many previous victories dating 
from his yearling days. In the matters of size and weight he 
stood out in front of everything else in the class, more than 
confirming the promise of last year ; and when the more mature 
celebrities shall have faded away it is not improbable that the 
" Nailstone Conqueror " (who, by the way, won at Islington in 
February, when owned by Mr. Pate) may prove a worthy suc- 
cessor to some of them. Mr. Barrs, I believe, bought this horse 
from the breeder, but passed him on before he had made his mark 
to Mr. Pate, and it must have seemed rather hard lines to be 
beaten by one which had formerly been in his own stable ; but 
it was a compliment to his judgment when Mr. Barrs took Second 
Prize with " Nailstone Standard Bearer," who was highly com- 
mended at the Shire Show at Islington. 
If " Harold " failed to beat " Prince AVilliam " in the first 
class, he at any rate had the honour of siring the winner in the year- 
ling class, asLord Dysart's " Witham Prince," an Islington win- 
ner, was the best out of a numerous and very good batch ; and the 
saying that like begets like was proved up to the hilt when it 
was found that the first and second in the yearlings class were 
sons of the first and second in the aged division. In short, the 
yearling, two- and three-year-old stallions show that breeders of 
the future will not lack a wide choice of sires. 
Mares and Fillies. — The height of summer is not perhaps 
the most favourable time for exhibiting Shire brood mares, and 
it was doubtless owing to weighty considerations that only 
three mares and foals competed. But they were an exceedingly 
good three, and after looking at the winner, Mr. Cross's " Kate," 
any one who did not carry the date of her birth in his head 
might have been surprised to learn from the catalogue that she 
was foaled in 1878. Age sits lightly upon her, and her foal by 
" Harold " did full justice to both sire and dam. The winner 
of the Second Prize, on the other hand, Lord Wantage's The 
Forest Queen," is but four years old, and her great hungry foal by 
" Prince William " has evidently tried her considerably. Among 
the mares who had not had a foal in 1889 was Mr. Freeman- 
Aiitford's " Chance," an animal with grea,t weight and substance, 
a magnificent mare all round, and one could only regret that she 
is this year numbei'ed among the barren. In horse-showing, 
as in other matters, nothing succeeds like success ; and therefore 
there was no surprise at " Chance " being first in her class, and 
at a later stage the recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal and the 
261. of the Shire Horse Society, as being the best mare or filly in 
five classes. Mention should, however, be made of Mr. R. Sutton- 
Nelthorpe's " Starlight," in appearance quite a different mare 
