THE SIDNEY ROYAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7075, 12 March 1910, Page 16

THE SIDNEY ROYAL

The Sydney Royal Show will begin, on Tuesday, March. 2Rnd. The great Easter show bids fair t’ais year to be even larger than, ft" fine exhibition of 1909, which was easily 'the most extensive show which the Eoyal Agricultural Society had organised up to that year (says a Sydney contemporary). The principal entries for the coming event are nearly all closed. For a fortnight past these have been pouring into the office of the society at the rate of from 200 to 1000 per day. It was thought that in consequence of the society having adopted a regulation .which provides that all stallions shall be subjected to an official veterinary examinath In before being allowed to compete would reduce the size of the horse section, which is, of course, the most attractive and largest feature in the show. The total number of entries received is j'flst over 1100, which is an advance of s /bout 60 on the number of borees put fin. for the 1909 show. The only Railing oft has been m thoroughbred stallions, the entries usually running to 19 or 20 in these. This time there are hi in the principal class and six in that for stallion bred in Nuw Zealand or Australia. Mr V. J. Dow-ling presented five guineas for grade Arab stallion, a nd tbis brought out three entries. There are large increases in the trotting c lasses, there being 26 stallions in one chass. The biggest section, however, premises to be the Clydesdale horses. An heavy Clydesdales there are 28 in the four years and under three, 21 in active Clydesdales, while there are 36 heavy Clydesdale mares four years and over," and 36 in the two years and under four clsvss. Sufloihs have also gone up well, thtere being nine Suffolk stallions in one class. The !society since the 1909 show has

expended about ASOOO in improvements on the ground. The principal newbuild- S* ing is a stallion pavilion, which will noM ' 50 stallion ponies and £0 large ertallione. and there is also a new cattle pavilion, which will accommodate 260 head, inthis Jerseys will have first place. About 100 old horse-boxes and 100 old cattle stalls have been removed, and tins nai tended to improve the appearance of to,* ground considerably. ■ . The show’ this year will be or a Q 1 tinctly more inter-State character tnan its forerunners. Entries from v ictoria are particularly large. That State wil be represented in horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, acid manufactures. J\ew Zealand sends horses, cattle ,and poultry; South Australia send** horses, cattle, poultry, and wines; Queensland sends horses, poultry, and dairy produce. The agricultural side will be well represented, there, being 60 entries of wheat alone.