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clean-madc, sliort-legged aged mare, " Princess," with a very 
good foal, was put before Lord Ellesmere's " Beauty," also an 
excellent specimen. Mr. Coke's " Cinderella," a compact and 
most useful animal, was a good third. A most difficult task for 
the Judges was the selection of the best among the eight extremely 
good three-year-old fillies. After a long and careful examination, 
they fixed upon " Flower," " Duchess," and " Bessie," with Mr. 
Hawksworth's capital filly, " Farmer," as the Reserve Number. 
" Flower " is a fine filly, but " Duchess " is a bad short mover. 
There was no animal of sterling merit in the Two-year-old and 
Yearling Filly Classes. Mr. Coke's first prize, " Chocolate," was 
a long way the best among the former in a class of ten ; and 
the others in the latter, comprising fourteen, had no chance with 
Mr. Coke's free-moving " Chance." There were only fourteen 
entries for the prizes, amounting to lOOZ., offered by the Local 
Committee for pairs of Mares and Geldings, and Three- and 
Two-year-old Geldings. Of these, three were not forthcoming. 
The second prizes were not awarded in Classes 27 and 28, as 
there were only two competitors in each class. In the latter 
Class, Mr. Ratcliff's pair of geldings are as good a pair of 
horses as were ever put together. 
Judges' Report, 
In submitting the following Report of Agricultural Horses at the Meeting 
■of the Royal Agricultural Society at Derby in 1881, we may state that we had 
hoped to see some of the classes more numerously represented, but as a rule 
the prize animals were good types of the English carthorse. 
Class 1. Agricultural Stallions, four years old and upwards. — Only three 
entries in this class, one of which did not appear in the ring, and we awarded 
the prize to No. 3. 
CL4.SS 2. Agricultural Stallions, three years old. — We had bat little diffi- 
culty in selecting No. 4 for the first prize in this class. This is a very grand 
horse of Ms age ; colour black ; full of bone and feather, with excellent joints 
and feet. He looks like doing good service at the stud, and his owner may be 
proud in possessing such a valuable entire horse. No. 7, second, with good 
bone and feet. 
Class 3. Agricultural Stallions, two years old. — Here we bad a strong 
class of eighteen entries, but wo had no hesitation in placing No. 22 first, a 
clean, active, lengthy colt, with capital back and loin, flat-boned legs, and 
splendid feather ; just the stamp of an English carthorse. No. 15, with good 
bone and hair, second. No. 21, a nice bay colt, with plenty of bone, and a 
good mover. 
Class 13. Agricultural Mares and Foals. — A good class. No. 7, a heavy 
bay mare, was placed first. She has a splendid top, with great limbs, and we 
considered her far the best mare in the class. Perhaps she had been rather 
over-fed, from the appearance of her legs. No. 76, a brown mare, twelve years 
old, second ; and we placed No. 74: third. This is a black mare, nine years 
old, and is a very useful short-legged sort and a fine mover. No. 64 was our 
reserve in this class. 
Class 16. Agricultural Fillies, three years old. — A good class ; and here 
we had some difliculty in arriving at our verdict. After some delay it was 
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