6 So Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Shrewsbury, 1884. 
three of these classes the Judges report unfavourably, applying 
to each of the three one general comment, " Very bad." In 
Class 37, however, Mr. Thomas's " Gendarme," and Mr. Brown's 
" Grenadier," surely forbid the application of the censure to every 
unit composing the class. In Class 38, the withdrawal of the 
third prize seems anomalous in connection with the grant of a 
reserved number, because in the event of the first or second prize- 
horse proving disqualified (we have a right to suppose the pos- 
sibility, as it is only in view of the possibility of such a case 
that a number is reserved), then it would happen that a horse 
unworthy to receive a third prize would take by right the second 
prize. When a prize is thus withheld, because the merit is in- 
sufficient to deserve it, should not the chance of unworthy 
succession to a higher prize, still less deserved, be barred by 
refusal to grant a reserve ? 
For insufficiency of numbers, and not for want of merit, the 
third prize in Class 39 is also withheld. Mr. Lett's, Mr. 
Toppin's and Mr. Blakeway's mares (Yorkshire, Cumberland 
and Shropshire represented), have their certificates of merit ; but 
Mr. Southam's (Shropshire) and Mr. Wheeler's ( Worcestershire), 
one of which must have taken the third prize, if paucity of 
number had not ousted the jurisdiction of the Judges, are sharers 
of the general commendation implied in the Judges' Report. 
Of Class 40, a general commendation is put upon record in 
the awards, so that besides Mr. Mitchelson's " Mars " (Yorks), 
Mr. Brown's " Victor " (Yorks), Mr. Keevil's " Garrison " 
(Wilts), Sir Wilfrid Lawson's "Brayton " (Cumberland), and 
one horse specially commended, every horse went home with the 
judicial approbation upon him. A good bay Lancashire-bred 
three-year-old, belonging to Mr. Abbot, in Westmoreland, was 
the first in Class 42 ; Herefordshire and Shropshire horses 
taking the two other prizes ; and the reserve belongs to 
Warwickshire. The only prize offered for Colt or Filly Foals 
of last year went to the brown filly " Madge," bred and ex- 
hibited by Mr. Huddleston (Worcestershire), and Mr. Jackson's 
bay colt (a specimen of Shropshire breeding) has the reserved 
number. Altogether the counties close around this year's centre 
had a fair share of the honours. 
Heport of the Judges of Hunters. 
We beg to su<:;gest that in Class 21 a separate prize should be given for 
Tnares and foals distinct, instead of for the two combined, as at present. 
Class 37. — We consider the Weight-carrying Hunters very bad; only two 
out of the number being up to 15 stone. 
Class 38. — We consider this class very bad, and we were compelled to 
withhold the third prize. 
