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another Company, to be called 'TheFjlde Carf-Horse Breed- 
ing Improvement Company,' and that it be managed upon the 
same principle as the former one. That the capital of the said 
Company shall consist of 600/., to be raised in shares of 25/. 
each. The Rev. L. C. Wood having brought the subject before 
the various landowners, the following took shares, viz. : — Lord 
Derby, 4 shares; Mr. J. T. Clifton, 4; Mr. T. H. Miller, 4j 
Mr. W. P. Miller, 4 ; Lord Bective, 3 ; Mr. T. T. Parker, 1 ; 
Mr. T. Langton Birley, 1 ; Mr. C. Birley, 1 ; Mr. C. A. Birley, 
1 ; Mr. A. L. Birley, 1 ; Mr._ Hutton jBirley, 1 ; Mr. Spencer 
Leese, 1, 
The thorough-bred horse Carbineer was purchased of Lord 
Zetland for 400Z. in 1860, the year in which be won the Society's 
lUO/. at Manchester; and Honest Tom of Mr. W. Welcher 
for 500/. The selection and management of these two stallions 
have been entrusted to a committee, consisting of Mr. T. 
Townley Parker, Mr. T. Horiocks Miller, and the Rev. L. C. 
Wood ; and the horses stand at Singleton, near Poulton-le- 
Fylde, in the centre of the F^lde district. Since his purchase. 
Carbineer's stock have been winning at many of the great 
shows throughout the country, and at a recent meeting in 
Lancashire his foals of this year beat an equal number of those 
by Sincerity in a match ; while Honest Tom's six years' 
successive victories are as well backed on the prize list. So 
far, then, the Company's capital has been judiciously invested; 
and although Lord Derby and the other gentlemen who have 
taken shares may not have looked to much direct return there- 
from, there will be a profit in many ways. 
For some years past Young Lofty has also been known at 
the Society's Meetings, as well as about the country, as the best 
Clydesdale, at least on this side of the Border ; and a very 
delightful horse he is — cheerful, active, and particularly hand- 
some. He was put out here, however, by the Assistant Vete- 
rinary Inspector as a roarer ; while it is noticeal)le that at Malvern 
last autumn, where I was one of the Judges, a question was 
raised by one of my fellow-Judges as to Young Lofty's sound- 
ness, and a veterinary surgeon called in. The horse, however, 
was passed as sound, and he took the first prize; while, it should 
be added, that no objection was then made as to his being a 
roarer. There was no such thoroughly stylish a cart-stallion at 
Cardiff, and the Judges with what they had before them in the 
class must have looked with longing eyes at the corner in which 
Lofty was " sent to Coventry " under the ban of a dis(|ualification. 
There was a far better show of Suffolk horses at Gloucester in 
1853, when the Punches took nearly all the prizes in mixed 
classes against other breeds, and when Mr. Milward stated 
officially there were several " fine specimens of the breed." At 
