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thoroughbred, can the breeder resort for endurance essential for 
all fast work. But he demands also stoutness and soundness. 
Speed at an early age, the great racing desideratum, is difficult 
to conjoin with the stoutness necessary in the sire of hunters 
and coach-horses. Somewhat undersized, quickly maturing 
thoroughbreds, able to stand early training, and at two and three 
years old earning money and reputation, are perbaps naturally 
preferred by most Turf men. Such delicate daisy-cutting tits, 
unable to carry 12 much less 15 stone across country, are un- 
suited to produce valuable weight-carriers, with well-laid 
shoulders, stout fore-legs, and ample chest capacity. The limbs, 
besides being slender, are sometimes also unsound. Hereditary 
defects, which are reproduced and mar the usefulness of the 
progeny, are also frequent. With the difficulty of getting 
suitable sires no wonder that the percentage of weeds and 
misfits is provokingly large, that breeding light-legged horses 
is pronounced a lottery, with more blanks than prizes, and that 
British horse-fanciers turn their attention to the breeding of 
cart-horses. 
Three prizes, amounting to 85/., attracted seven entries for 
Class 10, six of them chestnuts. Decidedly the best was "Meteor," 
seven years old, shown by the Stand Stud Company, Whitefield, 
Manchester, bred by Sir George Cholmley, Bart. — a smart 
compact horse, with fair action, but rather deficient in sub- 
stance. Of much the same stamp is Mr. H. F. Clare Vyner's 
second-prize horse, " Due de Beaufort," bred by Count de 
Lagrange, eleven years old, a gentlemanly looking chestnut, first 
last year in this class at Kilburn, still disfigured by the 
Hampton Court throat, whilst string-halt in both hind-legs 
becomes more unpleasantly conspicuous. Possessing such a 
serious hereditary fault, no animal, however otherwise meri- 
torious, should receive Royal honours. 
Desirous to maintain the reputation of the county for stout 
serviceable hunters and coach-horses, the members of the 
Cumberland Hunt liberally offered (Class 11) 100 guineas for the 
Thoroughbred Stallion which shall remain in the county during 
the season of 1881, and serve half-bred mares at a fee not 
exceeding 3/. 3.s'. The prize evoked seven entries, but none 
were particularly good. Several that had substance lacked 
quality. Some with fair style were deficient in timber. Not 
one had the well-placed shoulders, the stout fore-legs, and the 
action so essential in a good nag. After a patient balancing 
of merits and demerits, and disqualifying one otherwise useful 
animal on account of hereditary unsoundness, the Judges gave 
the award to Mr. William Taylor Sharpe's "Merry Sunshine," 
bay, ten years old, bred by Mr. Merry, of Russley Park, sired 
