■■>9G Hqmrf on the. Horses Exhihitfid at Windsor. 
kinds. At Liverpool in 1841, and at many otlier Shows, the 
East-Country breeders were successful — so much so, in fact, that 
in twenty-three years twenty-three prizes fell to the Suffolk 
horses. This at one time, and perhaps not unnaturally, appears 
to have caused some little jealousy on the part of breeders of 
other horses, and it was stated among other causes that the 
Suffolks owed their good fortune to the circumstance that the 
men who judged the heavy horses were almost invariabl}- Suffolk 
men ; that Suffolk had a preponderating number of men on tlie 
Society's Council, and so forth. All these and similar statements 
are carefully reviewed in the introduction to the first volume of 
the Suffolk Stud-book, and are shown to be without foundation. 
A far more probable theory is that at a time before Clydes- 
dales and what are now termed Shires had reached their present 
high standard of excellence, the Suffolks were as good as they 
are now ; they had their own individuality, had not been 
crossed with other strains, and fairly won on their merits, just 
as, comparatively lately, Mr. Wolton's horse " Emperor," who 
was first in his Class at Windsor, gained the prize in a Class in 
which other breeds competed. The Suffolks pretty well cleared 
the board at Lewes in 1852, and the breeders were apparently 
so elated at their success that they mustered strongly the next 
year at Gloucester, where, with the exception of the Suffolks, 
the show of horses was miserably poor. At Chelmsford, in 1856, 
the Suffolks won nearly everything; and in 1862, at Leeds, the 
Suffolks had classes to themselves, and eighteen aged stallions 
and thirteen younger ones were entered. So that this breed, 
besides winning the first prize ever offered by the Society, 
was the first to be separated from the others, who competed 
together for some time afterwards. 
To come to the more immediate object of these remarks, the 
show of Suffolks at Windsor was exceedingly good ; though in 
their case, as in that of Clevelands and Clydesdales, one must 
visit the native shows to see the breed at its best. Still, at 
Windsor the Suffolk men did themselves full justice with 105 
entries; and perhaps on no previous occasion, except in 1886 
when the Royal was held at Norwich, has there been a better 
show. The aged stallions were a very good Class, and included 
Mr. Wolton's " Emperor," bred by the exhibitor. He is a mag- 
nificent dark chestnut horse on short legs, with great girth and 
a capital back and loins, and he had not much difficulty in 
beating Mr. Byford's " Iron Founder.'' Mr. Smith's " Wedge- 
wood," who, like " Emperor," comes from that horse-breeding 
centre Woodbridge, was first in the Three-year-old Class, and, 
with his capital loins and short canon bone, was a very taking 
