BepoH 011 the Horses Exhibited at Windsor. 
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Class 49. Fillies foaled in t.he year 1887. — A very p;ood Class. We had 
to Higlily Commend eif^bt after the prize fillies and the Reserve Number. 
Class 60. Fillies foaled in the year 1888. — Another remarkably good 
Class, strong both in point of numbers and of merit. The First Peize 
filly, No. 7aG (Mr. J. P. Cross's Arcadia), deserves special mention, being 
so strong and square, with correct legs and feet. Other good fillies follovFed 
on, ten being Highly Commended or Commended. 
The winner of the Gold Medal given by Her Majesty the Queen, and 
the Champion Peize of oO/. offered by the Shire Horse Society for the best 
Shire Stallion, was No. 573 (Lord Wantage's Prince William), the Fiest 
Peize Stallion in Class 42 ; the Reseeve Number going to No. 580 (Mr. 
A. C. Buncombe "s Harold), in the same Class. 
The winner of the Gold Medal given by Her Majesty the Queen, and 
the Champion Prize of 2-5/. offered by the Shire Horse Society for the best 
mare or filly, was No. 666 (Mr. Freemau-Mitford's Chance), in Class 47, 
and No. 662 (Mr. Sutton-Nelthorpe's Starlight) in the same Class took the 
Reserve Number. 
These all possessed symmetry, activity, and strength, and did credit to 
this important breed of draught horses. 
Peter Blundell. 
W. N. Sabeeton. 
Henry Smith. 
Clydesdale Horses, 
In the early days of the Royal Show all the heavy horses 
were massed together, without reference to breed, so that the 
task of judging — always a thankless one — must have then 
been most unenviable. Imagine a man being asked to-day to 
judge a class containing a Shire, a Suffolk, a Clydesdale, and, 
possibly, a horse coming under the head of " Agricultural " — ■ 
one, that is to say, which is not eligible to compete as one of the 
distinct breeds. Yet this is virtually what the Judges of old 
had to do ; and the only wonder is that the 8porting Magazine 
was not now and then the medium of a wordy war in connection 
with disputed decisions. But they were good losers those 
exhibitors of nearly half a century ago, and set an excellent 
example to some of the show-men of to-day. The Judges did 
their best to discover whether a Suffolk, a Clydesdale, or an 
Agi'icultural horse should be put first — a problem impossible of 
solution as we generally deem it now, and the exhibitors appear 
to have acquiesced in the decision arrived at. The Clydesdale 
men, however, declined to acknowledge defeat, as, although they 
exhibited regularly, we scarcely find the breed mentioned till 
1848, when a Clydesdale stallion succeeded in carrying off 
Second Prize for the newly instituted class of dray-horses ; and 
that Clydesdale, by the way, is said to have been about the only 
one in .the Show. Later on, however, the breed came in for 
recognition, as at Carlisle there appear to have been four 
Clydesdale classes, organised for that special occasion on account 
