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Report on Live-Stock at Carlisle. 
Carlisle did not furnish much instruction, unless it be in what 
to avoid. The Judges remarked that " from the animals brought 
before them," they conclude " that the country round Carlisle is 
not a coach-horse-breeding district." 
Stallions suitable for getting Coach-horses had a class to 
themselves (No. 12). Such a class, I believe, is, however, super- 
fluous. The distinction between coach-horses and hunters has 
been considerably narrowed. Breeding and quality are as 
essential in the one as in the other. There is no demand now 
for big cumbrous carriage-horses of the old Cleveland bay type of 
forty years ago. Good roads, lighter vehicles, and the accelerated 
pace of travelling, call for smarter and better-bred carriage-horses, 
many of which would carry a man well across country. The 
Royal Agricultural Society are unwise to recognise coaching 
sires other than thoroughbred. Half-bred or chance-bred sires 
only lead to uncertainty and disappointment ; they lack the 
power of reproducing a fixed type. None of the five coaching 
stallions at Carlisle reached a high standard. The Stand Stud 
Company own the first- and second-prize bays, both bred in 
Yorkshire, exhibiting much Cleveland character, but deficient 
in action. The first, a shapely three-year-old, has a good body 
and carriage ; the second is slack in his back ; Mr. Christopher 
Wilson's bay three-year-old has a better middle piece and truer 
action, but is plain about the setting-on of his head. 
Coaching Mares and Foals (Class 28) commanded three useful 
entries, showing a good deal of Cleveland character, and likely 
with suitable thoroughbreds to produce superior carriage-horses. 
The first-prize rather lacks style, and is not very good in her 
hocks. The second mare has more substance. The third, 
shorter on the leg, has better back and loins than either of 
her compeers. 
The Judges report as follows : — 
The Stallions suitable forgetting Coach-Horses (Class 12) were an indififerent 
lot, and wanting in one very essential point fur a good coacli-horse, viz. action. 
In the Class for Coaching Mares and Foah (No. 28) tliere were two very 
nsel'ul mares shown, the winner hailing from Yorkshire, and being very much, 
of the old Cleveland type. 
The Coaching Mares and Geldings, four years old and upwards, were 
a very mixed class, the tirst- and second-prize animals being of a useful 
stamp, but many of the exhibits were of a nondescript kind. 
Of the younger classes of Coacliing-horses we cannot say mucb. The 
winner in the Three-year-old Class was a useful colt, and went well ; the 
remaining entries being made up of animals which might many of them have 
appeared in the Hunter classes, with much more chance of success. 
From the animals brought before us wc should say that the country round 
Carlisle is not a coach-horse-breeding district. 
John B. Booth. 
RoDERT Clark. 
Geokge Higgiks. 
