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Mr. John Wilson Hodgson's more blood-like " Rose of Atliol," 
and Mrs. Mary Ann Bell's highly commended chestnut, with 
hall-a-dozen other promising juveniles. 
The Judges presented the following critical Report of 
Thoroughbred Sires and Hunters : — 
Class 10. — Very moderate. The first auimal being the only one of any 
great merit. 
Class 11. — Again very moderate, the finest being disqualified by the 
veterinary surgeon for himeness, and tlie prize horse being decidedly more 
adapted for getting coach-horses than hunters. 
Class 27. — This was a fair class, but very small in number. The two 
first-jDrize mares were of considerable merit. 
Class 37. — This was very small in numbers. The Judges regretted that 
there were no younger horses of sufficient merit to beat the old prize-winners. 
Too much attention to size alone appears to have beea paid by breeders, 
■without sufiicient attention to quality. 
Class 38. — This was a moderate class, with the exception of the first-prize- 
winner, who was a very first-class animal. 
Class 39. — This was a moderate class, and again, although the animals 
were well grown, the Judges have to remark on a great want of quality. 
Class 40 was a good one ; the winners being good animals, possessing 
plenty of power, but being rather deficient in qualit3^ 
Class 41 was very good, the animals being well-grown and showing con- 
siderable quality ; the first- and second-prize-winners, particularly, being of 
great promise. 
Class 42 was first-rate, the yearlings being Very well grown, and of excellent 
quality. The first-prize-winner was an almost perfect animal of his age. 
The Judges commended the whole class. 
Egbert Arktoight. 
J. H. Edwards Heathcote. 
lloBERT Geo. F. Howard. 
COACHING-HOKSES. 
Very little system is adopted in the breeding of coach-horses. 
They are usually chance productions, often appearing where 
hunters are the breeder's object. The best are the progeny of 
thoroughbred stallions put to clean-limbed active cart-mares, 
or to the better class of animals known as pole-vanners. Useful 
smaller cobby horses, under 15^ hands, are often the produce 
of good Norfolk trotters. The supply of handsome good-step- 
ping coach-horses over 16 hands has long lagged far behind 
the demand. Dealers and job-masters cannot find in England 
or Ireland the animals they require, have had to ransack Hungary 
and Russia, and now discover in America a fair field for good stud- 
horses, five and six years old. Scattered throughout both Canada 
and the States are to be found big fine horses, with shape, action, 
breeding, and good legs and feet, procurable for about 40Z. ; cost- 
ing, however, fully 25Z. more for transport thence to this country, 
and then requiring careful breaking and management before they 
get used to English work and feeding. The coaching-horses at 
