3-052-716 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Horse Show, 1880. 'Mr. T. W. Blyth's Pony, Toby, 2. Mr. W. H. Wilson's Lizzie Kendall. 3. Prince of Wales's Sir Jarge. 4. Mr. W. S. Blunt's Arab, Pharaoh'. Entries in the '...seventeenth annual Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall, Islington...In Class 13, for Arabs, the first prize, consisting of a piece of plate, was awarded to Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, for his dark bay Arabian stallion Pharaoh...The animals represented in our Illustrations are, this prize Arabian horse of Mr. Blunt's; the Prince of Wales's Sir Jarge; also, the bay roan mare Lizzie Kendall (from Kentucky), driven in an American buggy, for which Mr. W. H. Wilson won a third prize in the class of small trotting horses in single harness; and the prize pony of Mr. T. W. Blyth. The show was visited by their Royal Highnesses, and by many persons of rank and fashion, as well as by large numbers of other people. The parade of prize horses, and the leaping practice, attracted a great company of spectators. There was a good attendance day after day this week'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.