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strong symmetrical colt, and a good mover, but a little short in liis fore- 
pasterns. No. 86 was awarded the reserve number and highly commended 
ticket ; he was poor in condition, but possesses very good fore-feet and pasterns, 
and other qualities, which make hiiu very promising. Nos. 83 and 85 were 
commended — the former is a good useful colt, though his hair is a little hard, 
and he is slightly faulty in his fore-feet ; the latter is low in condition, but 
appears as if in time he will make a good colt. 
Class 14 — Marcs with Foals at foot — was a very good one. No. 157 was 
easily first; she is a splendid mare with extraordinary action. No. 162, 
])laced second, has also grand true action, though a little bare in her hair, and 
perliaps not quite heavy enough in bone, but still a beautiful mare. The mare 
placed third. No. 161, is an excellent type of a Clydesdale brood mare, though 
age is telling against her. The reserve and highly commended mare, No. 154, 
is a useful-looking mare. 
The Three-year-old Fillies in Class 23 were a very good lot. The first 
one, No. 245, is remarkably well made up for her age, her action is grand and 
her quality excellent, but she is not quite so good along her top as elsewhere. 
The second. No. 250, is full of quality, with extra good fore-feet and pasterns, 
but a trifle Hght in her middle. 1'he third, No. 243, ran the second very 
close, thoiigh not so good in her action ; she is handsome, and likely to 
prove a good brood mare. No. 246 was awarded the reserve and highly 
commended ticket; she has vast substance and excellent Clydesdale character, 
but is not so good in her fore-feet as in other respects — a weakness also shown to 
some extent by No. 249, which was commended. The other filly commended, 
No. 251, is a capital mover, but was out of Showyard bloom ; she may yet 
come out well. 
The Two-year-old Fillies in Class 24 formed the best class of Clydesdales 
of either sex in the Showyard, there being s larger proportion of splendid 
animals in it. The first three were very evenly matched, a remark, indeed, 
which applies to several of the other classes. The first-prize filly, No. 258, 
is a grand, massive, symmetrical animal, her movement is remarkably good, 
her hock action being specially excellent. Though the second. No. 261, has 
less substance, she is full of quality, her hocks are not quite so perfect as most 
of her other points. The third priz3 was awarded to No. 260, which has 
more substance than the second, and is in every respect a grand filly, her chief 
drawback being that her hock action is a trifle wide. The reserve and highly 
commended. No. 259, has excellent bone and hair, but her fore-feet are 
deficient in size ; a commended ticket was given to No. 252, a filly of good 
stamp and quality, thouizh light in her bone and bare of hair. 
In regard to the turn-out of Clydesdales, as a whole, we are gratified in 
being able to report that alike in respect of numbers and merit, they are the 
best display of the breed ever made at a Show of the Koyal Agricultural 
Society of England, compensating the Society in this respect for their 
liberality in ofl'ering so many handsome prizes in half-a-dozen classes. "While 
the leading prize-takers were exceptionally superior, a large proportion of the 
exhibits were possessed in a creditable degree of the strong, flat, flinty bone, 
the excellent feet and pasterns, and the I'ree stylish action, which are dis- 
tinguishing characteristics of the breed, and which are serving to recommend 
them to foreign as well as home fanciers of draught horses. 
James McQueen. 
David Alston. 
SUFFOLKS. 
Horses from the confines of the German Ocean could not be 
expected in great numbers on the verge of the Irish Sea ; how- 
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