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imi(mc formation. However, the Veterinary Inspector, on examination, came- 
to the just conclusion that, as they had carried the animal 9 years without 
producing lameness, the queer form did not amount to unsoundness. Our 
selection for the second prize was disqualified by the Inspector, and the 
remaining horse we rejected as not wortliy of a prize. 
In the two-year-old class there were but two entries, both belonging to the- 
Duke of Kichmond. The best of the pair was a small-girted, light-flanked 
bay, and the second prize colt had ordinary feet — neither of the two likely to 
make anything beyond common van horses. 
For the three prizes offered for the Clydesdale marcs five were entered. The 
first prize we awarded to Mr. Waugh's No. 103. 1 thought her the best 
animal in any of the Clydesdale classes. The second prize. Colonel Lindsay's 
mare, had bad coarse fetlocks, with a little weakness about the loin, and the 
third prize had bad feet, was light in girth, and wanted power all over — an 
appearance her age (16 years), with foal at foot, helped to produce. The three- 
year-old fillies in Class 17 called for no particular notice. The two-year- 
olds. Class 20, were represented by three entries, not one of which could 
claim a prize. The one selected for the first prize, as she stood, looked worth 
the other two, but being lame, she was pronounced unsound at the time. The 
next was disqualified on account of her feet, and the third was too bad for us- 
to award a prize to. 
As regards the Sufi"olk horses, we thought them well represented by remark- 
ably sound animals ; indeed, we had only one case to call in question that 
Ijoint. Years ago the feet of the Suffolk horses were considered their weak 
place; they will now bear comparison with any other breed exhibited, and cer- 
tainly the Clydesdales and " shire-breds," at this meeting, were far worse 
in this respect than the Suffolks, My note-book shows many marked as 
having indifferent fore-legs, light in substance and with a retreating cannon- 
bone, a formation weak and imsightly. This appears to be a prevailing fault ; 
some few others had bent hind-legs and coarse hocks. 
In Class 5 the first prize was a^^'arded to Mr. Eist's No. 38, a very grand 
horse of 9-years-old, with flat sides, and perhaps hardly bone enough in propor- 
tion to his immense quarters, back, and shoulders. This horse is directly de- 
scended from Royal prize-winners, and, if anything is required as additional 
evidence of the value of pedigree, we have it in the fact that this horse is the 
sire of the first prize Two-year-old Stallion, the third prize in the Old Stallion 
Class, the second prize Aged Mare, the second Two-year-old Filly, and the 
reserve number in the Three-year-old Filly, all being in the Suffolk classes at 
this meeting. The second prize we awarded to Mr. Boby's No. 36, a little too- 
dark in his colour to please Suffolk breeders, with hardly so handsome an out- 
line or correct a form as the first prize horse ; the third ]irize went to Colonel 
Tomline's 41, a rather small horse, but having much Suffolk character about 
him. 
The two-year-old stallion class comprised six animals. The best we con- 
sidered to be Mr. Eist's No. 47, a very good colt of the true Suffolk stamp, 
but having the prevailing fault of small and weak fore-legs. The second 
prize we gave to Mr. Capon's No. 50, a colt of great promise, and but for his- 
suspicious looking hocks would have run the winner very closely. The third 
prize we looked upon as wanting in style and Suffolk character, and, although 
a sound powerful colt of his age, he is too short in the rib and too long on the 
leg for our idea of a Suffolk two-year-old. 
Among the mares in or with foal, we foimd the best animal in all the Cart- 
horse Classes, possessing all the favourable points of her breed, and without 
doubt a very superior mare in all respects. This was No. 108, Mr. Capon's 
" Matchet," a mare well known in the prize-ring in her own district, and well 
able to hold her own at any Eoyal meeting. Colonel Wilson's " Bury Empress," 
