... Sliire Pride MORE than 5,000 people, the largest attendance at the Shire Horse Show for twenty years, saw Mr. Richard Sutton's eight-year-old brown stallion, The Bomber, win the Stallion Championship at Derby. A Although his owner has exhibited for some years, it was the first time he had won the trophy. The other pictures are of the judging of the single-horse commercial- class entries and ...

... IN the lamentations over our shortage of dollars it must not be forgotten that lack of dollars outside the United States some times makes our tasks easier. This is particularly true in Australia and New Zealand. Till recent months, there has been a prejudice against British tractors. This prejudice had no foundation in criticism of British machines, for there were none there to evoke comment, ...

... Our Enemy The Warble -fly By Forceps ALMOST every stock-owner is familiar with the sight of frightened cattle, careering round a field in an attempt to avoid the warble-fly; but it is not generally realised that horses may suffer from warbles also. Last year many hunters, hacks and racehorses developed these painful swellings, training and racing being interfered with during the steeplechasing ...

... HEIFERS sold particularly well at the annual Spring Show and Sale of Dairy Shorthorns organised by the Shorthorn Society, thirty-three of them averaging £232 us, 9d. Seventy-one pedigree females averaged £185 is. 6d., and seven grading register females, £118 10s. Two bulls reached four figures, the average for eighty-seven attested bulls being £184 3s. 2d., and for three supervised animals, 1 ...

... IN long-distance boat races, as in horse races, the winner by a length might well, if driven to the uttermost, have won by a greater distance. But if after four-and-a-quarter miles one can only finish a canvas or a neck ahead, then it has indeed been a race that will be long remembered. The Boat Race of 1949 will go down to history as one of the greatest of all time, Cambridge winning in the ...

... THE CENTENARY of the famous Spring handicap resulted in a popular victory for the favourite Mr. C. W. Gordon s four -year -old, Fair Judgement, ridden by Eph Smith and trained by Jack Jarvis at Netcmarket. The top picture shows the field of forty-three runners, two furlongs from the winning-post. Fair Judgement beat Goldsborough, ivho had made nearly all the running, by two lengths. 1 eUow ...

... THE fiat-racing season opened in good style at Lincoln and was continued in an equally promising fashion at Liver- pool. A large section of the racing public had been waiting almost breathlessly for the opening of the Flat; yet this most im- portant event was completely overshadowed, once again, by the countryman's sport and the great race which, for all intents, is its climax. I must begin ...

... ^ THE golfer who is past the beginner stage soon begins to look around for his own means of beating the game that may be outside the bare fundamentals he has learned and on which he has built up his game to date; means that are mainly in the form of tips or hints, points he often overhears discussed in the bar or locker room. You know the little points I mean I always play my best when I am ...

... (AGRICULTURAL DIVISION) COWLEY, OXFORD. Overseas Business Nuffield Exports Ltd., Oxford and 41 Piccadilly, London, W.l. N.U.J. ^9 6-way Power Draw-Bar. y y a Power take-off. 4*4 HydraullIr^Lift. 2 Power Tapping Points. t 5 forward speeds giving range of I to 17 m.p.h. Works every type of equip- 3 ment mounted or trailing. a Easy, on-the-farm conversion abea. rom 4 3 whMl r f Quick start on ...

... by tA by i a VI^UJWU t.iu., vunmi; 0.4Y Strictly a family affair 6 7 -year-old farmer pays tribute to his Ferguson Daughter Joyce Smith lakes charge of a Suffolk s Punch preparatory to boxing it. Joyce, her father, sister and mother, provide all the labour on their 50-acre farm. Sixty-seven-year-old farmer G. S. Smith, of East End Farm. Nailsea, near Bristol, has worked with horses most of ...

... By A. Croxton-Smith THE Irish Kennel Club Show at Ballsbridge has assumed such proportions that St. Patrick's Day would not be duly celebrated in Dublin without it. The last of the series the other week had a bigger attendance than ever-- 600 more paid than last year --and it is estimated that some 11,000 were present. The exact number cannot be given because members of the Royal Dublin ...

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