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honours of the prize list any animal so afflicted. The grey we had to fall 
back upon, was by no means an unworthy representative of his class. The 
dappled grey is not very common among the Clydesdales, although quite 
pure-bred specimens are to be found of that colour. Mr. Orange's horse 
has quite the characteristic marks of the breed : the two good ends — the 
short leg and somewhat drooping back with the grand action and great 
substance were all there. No. 31. The handsome black with his straight 
imderline (another decided breed-mark) had to be discarded, and the third 
prize went to a small bay with very little of the grand about him. 
Among the Clydesdale marcs was Mr. Statter's very, very good Mi's. Muir, 
in every way a fit representative of her class. The 2-year-old classes ef 
stallions and mares, require no particular notice. The exhibitor of No. 160, it 
is to be hoped, has learned from the Cardiff meeting what a Clydesdale is — 
a more miserable applicant for a prize ciU'd was never led out in earnest. 
Of the Suffolk Classes it may be said they were very short in numbers and 
not surpassing in merit. The first-prize stallion has been a winner at the 
Koj'al once before. He is a shade darker than the orthodox colour, has a 
sourish head and his fore-legs are not well placed and are not particularly 
firm under his ponderous carcase. His walk, however, is first-rate and his 
deep carcase looks like a good constitution. His owner — Mr. Boby — won 
the prize when the Society held its meeting at Bury St. Edmund's with the 
sire of his winner at Cardiff". He is also successful in the 2-year-old class 
with a son of Royal Prince— a somewhat unique instance of one breeder 
winning with three generations of the same animal. 
Among the Suflblk brood mares is Mr. Capon's Gyp, an animal with 
great development of muscle, but light in bone, very handsome and very 
active, but her foal gives little promise of bringing back to her owner much of 
the cost of the dam. A somewhat notable history attaches to this mare. 
She is one of twenty-three, which, in a hond-fide sale of a deceased tenant-farmers 
stock last October, averaged over 100?. each. The sale was a large one, but an 
average of lOOZ. for such a number speaks of the repute the breed '.las in its 
own district. Two of the mares — of which Gyp was one — fetche.l upwards 
of 600?i Both were bought by tenant-farmers. 
One of the most noticeable classes brought into the ring was t^.at for pairs of 
agricultural horses. Among these were some very extraor.iinary animals ; 
but the best, the handsomest, the most valuable, would h'lve been more at 
home on the stones of London, the Docks at Liverpool or in the streets of 
Manchester than in any farm in any district. The substitution of the word 
"draught" for "agricultural" would have made the Judges' course a more 
clear one. Another diiEculty was the ill-assortment of the " pairs." Of those 
to which the awards were attached, not two were of a colour or of a similar 
character. The white-legged chestnut — a perfect dray horse in himself — had 
a partner quite of another style and the magnificent grey mare liad for her 
companion a narrow-chested blue-grey horse, with not much to recommend 
him but his size. The black mare in the "reserved number " was good all round 
except in the quality of her legs. Such a state borders on disease. Here was 
neither hair nor quality, and only those who have had horses' legs in such 
a state, can realise the trouble they ultimately cause. As purely agricultural 
horses, the jiair of bays 105 and 110 were perhaps quite worth notice, but 
tlie sensational element of extraordinary size and extraordinary action, took 
the awards elsewhere. 
The underground pair were but a couple of useful carriers'-cart animals, 
what may be the precise qualification for miners' cattle, beyond being- below 
a certain height, is not quite apparent, but as there was but one competition 
for the prize, the Judges had no dilTiculty in deciding the question. 
The Report from the Riding-Horse Judges is also very 
