The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

THE HORSE SHOW.

The sixth annual horse show was opened at the Agri-
cultural Hall at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. Inside
the building, by the erection of temporary galleries and the
division of the permanent ones into boxes, increased
provision has been made for the comfort of the numerous
Visitors who are expected to be attracted to an
exhibition which bids fair to prove more successful than
any of the kind yet held at Islington. The total number
of entries this year, with the extra classes, is about 360,
the animals exhibited including hunters, riding horses,
cover hacks, roadsters, park hacks, ladies' horses, harness
horses, high-stepping cobs, ponies, and stallions.
Amongst the most attractive of the entries are a
noted Russian trotter of the Orloff breed and five Arabs.
Of the latter, one, named Paella, is the property of
Mr. Adrian Hope, and according to its Arabic pedigree is
a descendant of a filly once borrowed by the prophet
Mahommed from an old woman in his tribe, which carried
him so satisfactorily that he placed some kohl on the
creature's eyes as an act of endearment, whence originated
its name, Kuhedet el Ajtiz, or the old woman's painted-
eyed mare, and of which the prophet said, " On her
back is majesty, and in her womb a treasure."

The judges for the present show are, for hunters, the
Earl of Macclesfield, Viscount Combermere, and Captaia
Percy Williams, the duty of deciding upon the merits of
hacks and harness horses being undertaken by Colonel
Kingscote, M.P., and Captain Bastard. In addition to
theusual hurdle jumping—which, if itdoes not do much to
test the merits of the:competitors, is, at all events, amusing
to the public—there will be a new feature this
year in the shape of a water leap. There will also be
trotting and tandem driving, and a daily parade of
the horses who have taken prizes. The attend.
ance to-day was large, and comprised many more ladies
than have usually honoured the opening of the
show with their presence. The judging was con-
fined to bunters, stallions, and hacks. For Class 1,
consisting of weight-carriers equal to not less than 15st.,
there were thirty-two entries. The first prize of 280 was
awarded to a bay gelding, leh. 2in. high, and Syrs.
old, the property of Mr. David :Mclntosh, of Havering
Park, Itomford. This horse is Yorkshire bred, and is
well known with the hounds of that county, and
also With those of Essex. The second prize,
value £4O, fell to the lot of Ilarkaway, a five-year-
-old chesnut, the same height -as the last, exhibited by
Mr. T. W. Potter, East Court, Cheltenham. The third
prize of £2O was awarded to Kildare, a bay gelding, 15h.
3in. high, the property of Mr. James Bredin, Fenwick-
street, Liverpool. The second class judged consisted of
bunters entered without conditions as to weight. The
first prize of £5O was taken by Major Quentin's Placid,
a aie-year-old bay gelding, standing IGh. ; the second
prize of £25 being awarded to Captain Barlow's Topstall,
a brown horse, 8 yrs. of age, and 15h. 3?;in. high ; and the
third prize, of the value of £l5, going to Mr. Henry
Sanders's Playmate, a five-year-old bay, 15h. Sin. highs.
In Class 3 two prizes only were given. The first, value
£4O, was adjudged to Mischief, a bay, oyrs. old, and
standing 15h. the property of Mr. J. Stanley Mott, of
Barringham, Norfolk; and the second prize, value £3O,
to Spanton, a chesnut, 15h. 2in. high, exhibited by
Messrs. E. and A. Stanford, Steyning, Sussex. The
first prize of £5O in the 4th Class, hunters, was
carried off by a Cumberland horse named Commissioner,
exhibited by Mr. Joseph Casson, of Burgh-by-Sands,
Carlisle. The second prize of £25 was taken by Mr.
Leonard Longwood, Master of the East Sussex Foxhounds,
for his brown horse Handcuff. The gold medal for bunters
was awarded to Mr. Casson's Commissioner.