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prove the position of the farmer and breeder, and it is by no 
means a natural consequence that a horse worth less than 100?. 
should get a hunter worth 150?. 
With aU the difficulties thrown in the way of the Judges 
allowed, I do not think there is much to regret in the selection 
made for the Royal Agricultural Society's premiums. Khamseen, 
whose quarters wiU be Leicestershire, should be quite the 
breeders friend, as, from what he could himself do on the turf 
and over a country, he might well get good hunters, and his 
beautiful colour and fine upstanding appearance are well in 
keeping with all that is wanted in a high-class carriage horse. 
Joj:k Tar is a very useful stamp of horse, and, as he has got good 
stock in "Wiltshire, a change into Northampton shire mav be verv 
beneficial to that county. Silver Croini is a very perfect-shaped 
animal in nearly all respects, and as his breeding is well known in 
Nottinghamshire, in consequence of his sire Silvester having got 
good hunters in a neighbouring county, the result of the ballot 
has given great satisfaction to the local farmers. Lancastrian 
will have more rivals to compete against in Derbyshire, a county 
by no means badly off for stallions ; but he Ls a fine powerful 
horse, with plenty of bone and substance, and his pedigree, if 
it does combine the roaring strain of Longbow, is exceptionallv 
stout by Toxophilite out of Lady Sefton by West Australian. 
The remaining premium stallion, Tiber, is rather a light-framed 
horse ; and unfortunately the ballot has sent him back to Lincoln- 
shire, where he has not met with much appreciation. 
Many good horses of a class such as foreign agents would 
have been only too pleased to select from were found in all the 
district classes of the show, including those that had shown 
much the same sort of form as our old Queen's Plate horses — and 
these are the animals to be looked for, I feel sure. Their value 
also cannot be questioned, as they are well known, and evidence 
would not be required to prove that very large sums had been 
paid for them. It is creditable to the cause that such a horse 
as Blue Grass is a hunting sire, as many of an inferior class are 
now rated at high fees as racing stallions. He inherits old blood 
also, as his American ancestry takes in the blood of Lexington, 
and likewise of Yorkshire, a horse shipped to America many 
years ago, and said to have contributed a great deal towarcU 
giving stamina to both racehorses and trotters. 
It was unfortunate that KnifjJit Templar failed to pass the 
veterinary examination, as he is as nearly as possible a model 
of what a hunter should be like, the shape of his loins and his 
back ribs being just what breeders are always tiying to get, as 
when they are built in that way, no matter whether it is a big 
horse or a little one, it must carry weight. 
