3-017-104 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize horses at the Horse Show in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1865. 'We give (Nos. 1 and 2) the portraits of Quicksilver and Young Norfolk Phenomenon, the first and third prize roadsters...No 3, Lady Florence, was allowed to be the belle of the horse part of the show...Robin, the cob (No. 4), is from that lucky Cumberland stable of Mr. Percy, which seems to carry everything before it all over England...Mr. Houck's pair of grey Turkish Arabs quite bore the stamp of their nationality in their dish faces, large eyes, and peculiarly arched crests. They were fifteen hands high, and imported from Russia...Mr. Aysford's match ponies, No. 6, took the second prize in their class, and were duns with white manes; and the judges made no mistake when they selected the dark chestnut Billy, a very good one (No. 7), to head the class of ponies under twelve hands. The victory of Polly (No. 10), was much enhanced by the fact that she was placed before Mr. Harvey Farquhar's Minnie Warren, one of the handsomest and best stepping ponies in Rotten-row...Prince of Wales (No. 8), not one of those monsters we see at Howden and elsewhere, but with quality for ever, and at present not more than fifteen three. Brown Stout (No. 9), came with a Pytchley character'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.