GOG Report on Live-Stoch at Carlisle. 
hacks and ponies, and most of the Hack and Pony classes, were 
particularly good. 
The subjoined vidimus indicates the entries of the different 
descriptions of horses at Carlisle and at the five previous Shows : 
Agricul- 
Clydesdale. 
Suffulk. 
Thorough- 
breds, 
and Hunters. 
Hacks and 
Total. 
114 
83 
30 
138 
104 
4G9 
221 
82 
77 
152 
181 
713 
77 
20 
11 
120 
116 
344 
Liverpool 
142 
45 
27 
60 
92 
366 
Birmingham 
122 
27 
35 
127 
112 
423 
Agricultural Horses. 
Agricultural horses in some classes were poorly represented. 
Competition was particularly restricted in the divisions devote4 
to the older and three-year-old stallions, and again amongst the 
mares with foals. The prize animals generally reached a high 
standard of merit. Some of the victors at Kilburn and other 
Royal Shows had here to content themselves with subordinate 
places. Many of the classes, however, exhibited too much 
diversity of type. Softness of constitution, roundness of bone, 
short stumpy pasterns, and small weak feet were the frequent 
defects. The registration of pedigrees and the publication of 
the Studbook will, however, give prominence to the best and 
stoutest strains of good blood, and help to extend a higher 
standard of excellence. Some of the exhibits were overfed, and 
appeared as if their chief function were aptitude to fatten rather 
than power, endurance, and action. This cultivation of beef 
and fat perpetuates softness and delicacy of constitution — two 
of the most flagrant faults that any horse can have. Early 
forcing has filled the hocks of several well-grown young 
animals and also brought out ring- and side-bones, for which 
several were disqualified. Such hereditary defects should not 
be tolerated in breeding animals, and might be entirely got rid 
of were care taken in the selection of sound parents. In the 
Agricultural classes were placed a good many Scotch-bred 
horses of Clydesdale character, although not always qualified 
for entry in the Clydesdale Studbook. Superior English mares, 
with their well-turned, blood-like quarters, crossed with hardy 
Clydesdale sires, with stout legs and feet, produce animals 
which unite many of the good qualities of the two rival sorts. 
