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of place" amongst them, and the highly commended "Young 
Pretender " " had not so much quality as the winner," " Pre- 
sident Junior," who has now taken about twenty prizes, nearly 
all of them firsts. One of the Judges writes thus : — 
" The winner is without doubt one of the best looking Roadsters ever seen, 
and ' Young Pretender ' nearly as good ; but I beg respectfully to suggest to 
the Stewards whether it be desirable to encourage this class of stallion. To 
my mind, this is the animal we want to breed, and not to breed from ; as, un- 
less this class of horse is put to a thoroughbred mare (which wc know seldom 
happens), he must beget something inferior to himself." 
The Roadster Mares or Geldings, Class CXXXII., were "a 
fair average class, without containing anything very first rate." 
The winner, Mr. Richard Foster's " Multum in Parvo," an Irish- 
bred one, " was decidedly the best both in shape and action," 
and Mr. Pease's neat chesnut, " Whitefoot," was commended. 
There were only a couple in the Hackney Brood Mare Class LV., 
but neither of them so true a type of the sort as " Crafty," the 
winner of last year. One of the Judges observes : — 
" This prize was for mares in foal or with a foal at their foot ; and there 
were great doubts as to ' The British Queen ' being in foal, while ' Fanny ' had 
a foal at her foot. On this account I consider that even if the winner had only 
been of equal merit with her opponent, instead of being superior in shape, she 
would have been entitled to the prize. Both mares were good average specimens 
of Hackneys." 
There were only three Pony Stallions in Class LVI., and 
Mr. W. Norman's chesnut, " Jack," the reserved number at 
Worcester, took the first prize again to Cumberland, which fairly 
beat Yorkshire in the non-agricultural classes. " ' Jack ' is of a 
rare stamp, with capital hock and general action, and shows 
considerably more breeding than the second prize pony, ' Glen- 
garry,' which is also from Cumberland, but of the old hairy- 
heeled sort, strong and useful, but deficient in quality." The 
third was quite unworthy of his company, as he was simply "a 
rich cream, with bad shoulders and no action." There were 
no grand Suffolk and Norfolk entries in the Mare Ponies 
(Class LVII.) this year. " The class was very moderate, and 
as one of the three, No. 409, was disqualified for being 2 inches 
above the 14 hands specified in the conditions, it early remained 
for us to decide between the two greys, No. 410 and No. 411, 
' Beauty ' and ' My Lady,' and our decision was in favour 
of ' Beauty ' as having the best action. Both of them were the 
property of Mr. George Heppel Ramsay." Class CXXX1II., 
for Pony Geldings, had five entries, and of these two were not 
present, and " Flora" was disqualified as being of the wrong sex. 
"The prize-taker, 'Little Stag,' a roan of Hi hands, was 
decidedly superior to his opponent in shape and action, while 
