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Class 17. Thrce-y ear-old Fillies were also of good quality, and the first 
and second fillies were botli very good specimens ot the Clydesdale breed. 
Class 20. Two-year-old Fillies were more numerous, and at same time 
of very good merit. David Alston. 
Adam Smith. 
SUFFOLKS. 
The valuable suggestion of the Judges of Suffolks as to 
shoeing should be well weighed by the owners of this and 
all other breeds. Their lament at the small exhibition of 
the Suffolks, and of their comparatively second-class quality, 
was natural and not by any means confined to them, as though 
they give the idea of being rather " soft," they are a most 
serviceable breed. They have been entirely altered from the 
original " Suffolk Punch," whose chief characteristics were 
" roundness of barrel and compactness of form." Still they pre- 
serve the chestnut colour and legs without much hair, though it 
must be said that the legs are rather long, and shoulders suited 
for draught and a quick step. Arthur Young, in his ' Six 
Weeks' Tour,' * writing of Suffolk, says, " They seldom use 
above two horses in a plough, and always do an acre a day in 
the stifTest fields ;" although in another book he speaks of the 
" ugliness " of Suffolk horses. It should be mentioned here that 
several owners of Suffolks did not exhibit, on account of the 
excessive charges of the Railway Companies ; but it is hardly 
fair to enter animals, and so to put the Society to the expense of 
fitting up boxes for them, and to withdraw them at the eleventh 
hour for such a reason. It surely would have been better to 
have ascertained the charges of the Railway Companies before 
the horses were entered. 
Descendants of " Cupbearer " took the first and second prizes 
in the Old Stallion Class, the one, " Chieftain," belonging to 
Mr. S. Wolton, the other, " Crown Prince," to Mr. R. Garrett. 
" Chieftain " was first in his class at Carlisle, and Mr. Garrett's 
" Zulu," unnoticed at Derby, was second at Carlisle. Lord 
Howe's " Kilburn " had a walk-over in Class 8, and Mr. Wolton 
again led the way in the Two-year-old Stallion Class with 
" Vivacity," followed by " Chief of the East " and " Light 
Heart." Six mares and foals of useful stamp, but nothing more, 
were headed by " Smart," owned by Mr. Green, of Essex. 
There were no three-year-old fillies. " Jessie," owned by Sir R. 
Wallace, a pretty though somewhat leggy filly, with good move- 
ment, was first in the Two-yearlings, with Mr. Wolton's 
" Miller's Maid " second, in a class of four. The suggestive 
remarks of the Judges which follow should be well digested : — 
* ' A' Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties.' By the author of 
he ' Farmer s Letters,' 1772, p. G4. 
