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stance and good quality, we commend this colt's legs as models to perpetuate. 
In Mr. Summer's grey, which took second honours, there is no great promise 
of beauty, but like the first-prize colt, he has no weakness to tell against him. 
The excessive development of muscle over the hips, with the drooping rump, 
is a form never deficient in strength ; but at the same time is an unsightly 
formation, usually accompanied with a depression more or less over the loins 
— a rule to wliich tlie grey is no exception. The third-prize colt had any- 
thing but good hind-legs, and had a certain want of strength round his flank 
and loins, not likely to mend with age. His place as No. 3 on the prize list, 
with Mr. Jones's lengthy brown behind him, was not a unanimous decision of 
the Judges. Among this class were to be found several colts by no means 
imdeserving of notice. No. 13, a particularly good-looking, lengthy bay, 
could not escape notice ; but there was tliat in his run out which sent him 
away early in the selection. Others, again, were palpably unsound, or had 
falsely-formed hocks, closely approaching to unsoundness. The marked 
instances of false form, shallow girth, long legs, and want of width, which 
Nos. 14, 15, 17, and 22 exhibited, quite spoiled the look of what would 
otherwise have been a commended class ; and one is led to wonder what the 
produce of such will be if their owners persevere in keeping such specimens 
for the stud. 
Class 11 comprised the mares of the same sort. Mr. Crowe's Smart was 
first, a place mostly occupied by this animal. " Very, very good" may be written 
against her in any company anywhere. Low, long, and wide ; sound, and a 
good mover, she claims the honour of being dam to the neat and true-made 
chestnut which took second among the 2-year-old fillies. The second prize 
goes to the great roan belonging to Mr. Street. Here we have more of the 
loaded hips, the deep mid-rib, and the tendency to low back, but in a modi- 
fied degree, with much to commend and undoubted ufility. The third prize 
was a question between the leggy brown, with the closely-ribbed, strong-built 
carcase, and the small but neat bay shown by Mr. Frees. Size decided the 
case in favour of Mr. Lamb's mare, against the protested appeals of one of 
the Judges for the low and long one. As a whole, the brood mares, with two 
exceptions, were a very plain set ; and after the first and second were draw^n 
out, the others were a very long way below them. The 2-year-old fillies 
were better. The big bay daughter of Honest Tom, shown by Mr. Purser, 
was a show-mare all over; quite the big stamp, but good looking, of 
good quality and grand action. It is no light point in her favour to have 
beaten Mr. Crowe's No. 151, already mentioned, an animal which has the 
credit of winning at all tlic Eastern Counties meetings this year. It should 
here be mentioned that two exceedingly clever well-spread mares, Nos. 154 
and 155, were both put out of all chance by their curby hocks. On Mr. 
Brown's filly the verdict must be — "bred so," inasmuch as her own sister 
in the yearling class, a particularly fine filly, was sent away on the same 
account. 
The Clydesdales were not a very numerous lo^ The old horse class gave 
us a sight of that particularly true-made, h'iodsome model of a cart-horse, 
I Young Loft}'. As a s[iecimen of the pura Clydesdale, every breeder should 
get a sight of this animal. As a model to be held in the eye, he is a type 
for the breeder of any kind of agricultural horse in the world. He is the 
property of Mr. Tomlinson of Rugeley, who is certainly under a great raisfor- 
I tune in having such a horse excluded from the prize list, on account of his 
1 roaring. How far such a malady may be atoned for by other excellences, 
is matter worth consideration — not a practice easily defended in theory we 
allow — but if ever there was a temptation to ignore the hereditary nature 
of disease, it would be in a case like this. The Judge's duty is more plainly 
marked out, and we decided not to sanction the principle of admitting to the 
