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' Dick,' a black of 37 inches, is a good specimen of a toy pony. 
' Little Stag ' went remarkably well." The prize for Mountain 
Mare Ponies under 13i hands, in Class CXXXIV., was awarded 
to " a good-shaped, useful, flea-bitten grey, breeder and age 
unknown, with a good foal at her foot," and nothing to op- 
pose her. 
The agricultural horse classes were a mere shadow of their 
former selves, and contained comparatively few good specimens. 
Class LVHI., for Agricultural Sires, was headed by two well 
known prize winners, Mr. Samuel Strickland's " Lincolnshire," 
and Mr. Matthew Read's "England's Glory;" and the former 
gentleman was also at the head of the Class LIX., with his young 
sire, " General Garibaldi." In Class LX., for Agricultural Mares, 
Mr. J. B. Dixon's " Jolly," a Northumberland mare, with a very 
good colt at her foot, was first, despite the weight of eighteen 
years, and Mr. S. Thompson's " Diamond," a five-year-old mare, 
and a good prize-winner, second. One Two-Year-Old Filly only 
was entered in Class LXI. 
There were only four entries for the 110/. devoted to " Drays " 
in Classes LXII.-LXV. In fact, in two of these classes, there 
was nothing even to claim the second prize, in a third it was 
withheld : and that for Two-Year-Old Fillies was a blank for 
the second time in succession. It seems quite a matter for con- 
sideration whether these classes should be continued, as they 
appear to answer no purpose, and under the present regulations 
there may be a distinction, but certainly no difference, between 
Dray and Agricultural Horses. The same animal is often ranked 
in two successive years under these two different heads. 
Class CXXXV., for Agricultural Pairs, produced one of the 
nicest spectacles of the meeting, as the eight pairs were led round 
the ring. Mr. C. M. Palmer's very cleanly-looking grey and 
bay seven-year-olds, " Dick " and " Sharper," took the head 
prize. A very good pair of bay Clydesdale Mares, belonging to 
the Duke of Hamilton, were placed next to them, and Mr. A. 
H. Hunt's bay and black were commended. The head and only 
prize for a Clydesdale Stallion, Class LXX., was awarded to 
Mr. A. Grierson's " Benicia Boy," who won the 25/. last year as 
the best Clydesdale sire in the Galloway district, and was a 
capital specimen of this great Scottish breed. " Sir Walter 
Scott," the first prize winner at Battersea, and quite one of the 
lions of that show, was disqualified by Professor Varnell for 
roaring. His son, " Young Sir Walter Scott," a colt of no 
remarkable promise, won in the younger stallion Class. 
None of Mr. Crisp's Suffolk entries arrived, and as they formed 
five out of the sixteen, which is five less than last year, the show of 
the " cherry reds " sank into very small dimensions. There were 
