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Class 39. — We consider this class good, though the entries were small, and 
consequently no third prize could be given. 
Class 40. — We consider this class very good. The horses were full of 
quality, and plenty of substance and action, and we wish to commend very 
highly this class. 
Class 41. — A very bad class; small, weedy animals, bad movers; no 
quality. 
Class 42 was a good class. 
Class 43. — We consider this class ]a very good one. Some very nice foals 
shown. 
Reginald Chandos Pole. 
Le Gendre N. Starkie. 
Walter H. Long. 
Hackneys, Roadsters, and Ponies. 
Under this heading, again, we begin with the sires. Class 15, 
for Stallions suitable for getting Hackneys, above 14r-2, and not 
exceeding 15-2 hands, had only five entries, and one was 
absent ; but Mr. Grout's " Fashion " is worth a great many horses 
of the average character. As this horse has been described 
in Earl Cathcart's Paper and in the official Reports of the 
' Journal,' and the Judges this year acknowledge his merits, not 
only by their award, but in their notes, little need be added here. 
" Fashion," is a black-brown, six years old, and was bred by 
Mr. Robert Wortley, not Worsley, as repeatedl)^ misprinted, of 
Suffield Hall, Norfolk. His height when rising four years old 
is stated as 15-1 hands. He has now won the first prize in his 
class three years consecutively, besides many prizes elsewhere. 
The same horse, " Lord Derwent," which won the second prize 
in the same class at York, where he was exhibited by his 
breeder, Mr. Robert Martin, of Scoreby Grange, but this year 
belongs to Major Piatt, has the reserved number — the chestnut, 
" Fascination," from the High Hurst Manor Stud Farm, in 
Sussex, separating the York winners. 
In the Pony Stallion Class, twelve entries, eleven shown ; two 
were disqualified as over height. The three winners were very 
choice, but the class, as a whole, did not display any very great 
strength. 
A reversal of the York judgment occurred in the placing of 
the first and second prize Hackney Mares and Foals, the same 
mares having been last year respectively third and second. 
Both are uncommonly good animals, and if Judges take much 
account of the foals (although they do not say much about them) 
it is quite possible that the quality of the year's foal may have 
turned the scales differently in the two years. The class of 
eight, only one absent, was a good one in the aggregate. 
Mr. Glossop's excellent pony mare, first in the same class at 
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