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Welsh Ponies and Cobs. 
descended. The entries during the past four years have been as 
follows : — 
Section A. Part I. 
Section A. 
Part II. 
Stallums . 
9 
Stallions . 
. 
. 
14 
Re-entries . 
5 
Mares 
133 
Mares 
• • • 
83 
Re-entries . 
. 
22 
Re-entries . 
. 
3 
Stallions . 
25 
Stallions . 
12 
Re-entries' . 
.... 
5 
Re-entry . 
• . • 
1 
Mares 
342 
Mares 
. . • 
52 
Re-entries . 
. 
31 
Re-entries . 
. 
5 
Stallions . 
56 
Stallions . 
19 
Mares 
. 
360 
Mares 
. 
144 
Stallions . 
45 
Stallions . 
17 
Re-entries . 
3 
Mares 
345 
Mares 
. 
111 
Re-entries . 
• 
24 
Re-entries . 
. 
24 
In these four years without including re-entries there were in 
Part I. Stallions . 135 Mares . 1,180 
Part II. Stallions . 62 Mares . 390 
The presence of ponies with cob characteristics has been 
previously explained as due to a mixture of cob and pony 
blood. Many breeders in Wales have bred on these lines and 
sent into the show yards showy, trotting, sturdy little animals, 
more suited to the shafts than to the saddle. 
Ponies of Section A, Part I., Welsh Stud Book. 
Probably no members of the Equidce could lay claim to the 
title of a pure bred animal with more confidence than the 
truest types of the small ponies on the Welsh Hills, which 
appear in Section A, Part I., of the stud books. 
An Arab outcross in the far back cannot be said to vitiate 
their claim to purity, as the Arab is recognised everywhere as 
a pure dominant breed. Of such undoubtedly is the well- 
known Dy oil- Starlight breed. Starlight belongs to Mr. 
Meuric Lloyd, and the prefix Dyoll read backwards (Lloyd) 
gives the clue to his prefix. He was foaled in 1894, was first 
shown in 1896, and retired from the showyard in 1901, having 
won first prizes at four R.A.S.E. ShoWvS — Birmingham, Maid- 
stone, York, and Cardiff — and two Crystal Palace firsts; since 
which time he has only been exhibited twice. He made two 
re-appearances for exhibition only, not for competition — once 
at Church Stretton in 1911, and again at the Welsh National 
Show at Swansea in 1912. 
Shooting Star, a son of Dyoll- Starlight, and a great prize- 
winner, is now back again in Cardiganshire ; Grey light, 
