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capacity of IVIr. Ma.joribauk's jjiize " Great Mogul." 

 The latter, who had just five months the advantage of 

 hina in point of age, has thus won two firsts and two se- 

 conds at this and the Royal Show. His conqueror at 

 this show last year, " Lord of the Valley," was not en- 

 tered, and is let to Mr. Carr, of Stack House, near Sett'e. 

 Mr. Budding's Grantham prize yearling, Mr. Ambler's, 

 and Viscount Strathallan's are particularly meritorious 

 animals. The bull calves are uncommonly fine 

 young stock, but with a few of inferior character. 

 Colonel Towneley's "Royal Butterfly" is beautiful 

 in all points ; Lord Londesborough's second 

 prize roan calf good ; and Lord Feversham's 

 deserving of his commendation. As usual, the 

 cows in general are wonderfully good in form, handsome, 

 but rather too much got up in the Baker-street style. 

 In the " any age" class, Mr. Booth's " Nectarine Blos- 

 som," which took the prize at Chester, is a perfect 

 picture; Mr. Wetherell's "Moss Rose" is a splendid 

 animal, and Mr. Douglas's not far behind in merit. 

 The two-year-old heifers are a remarkahle class — Mr. 

 Douglas, Mr. Booth, Mr. Barber, Mr. Wetherell, and 

 Col. Towneley's animals possessing surprising excellence. 

 Most of the yearling heifers are extraordinarily beau- 

 tiful, jiarficularly Mr. Douglas's "Lady of Athelstane," 

 Colonel Towneley's " Pearl," Mr. Grundy's, and Cap. 

 tain Gunter's ; and above all, Mr. Booth's handsome 

 " Queen of the Isles," which has obtained the special 

 prize given by Mr. H. B. Peirse, for " the best animal 

 in any of the cattle classes " Captain Gunter was 

 second to her with " Mess Rose," and he also received 

 one out of the five commendations with " Fair Maid 

 of Wetherby," rare encouragement for so young and 

 Bprited a breeder. The heifer-calves are " generally 

 commended," and are not only a meritorious but 

 very large class. In the " fat ox" and " fat cow" 

 classes, we did not see anything very astonishing ; but 

 Mr. Smith's and Mr. Cell's oxen are certainly good 

 beasts ; and Mr. Fletcher's prize cow is a long way 

 a-head of any other in her class. There were several 

 capital dairy cows. The extra stock comprised a few 

 magnificent cows, and several not very grand cattle. Mr. 

 Wetherell's cow and Mr. Brooke's are good, Mr. Booth's 

 very handsome and with a great quantity of fl 'sh, and 

 Colonel Towneley's " Roan Duchess" very beautiful, 

 with a good breast-end, extraordinarily broad hips, and 

 good touch. 



The decision of the Extra Stock-cattle Prize, in 

 favour of Mr. Booth's Bride Elect, made an equal score 

 between the Athclstaneford and Warlaby herds ; and 

 the special prize just turned the scale for Yorkshire. 



The Leicester or long-wool sheep are a particularly 

 good show this year. The " shearling ram" class is very 

 good, comprising some grand animals. Mr. Abraham, 

 Mr. Wiley, Mr. Sonley, and Mr. Hannam are great in 

 this class, besides Mr. Borton, whose beautiful sheep 

 carry off both prizes. The "any age" rams are an 

 exceedingly good class ; one of Mr. Abraham's has a 

 grand breast and plaits ; Mr. Simpson's very good ; 

 Mr. Borton's of splendid quality; Mr. Angus's good, 

 and Mr. Sonley's pretty, but small. Mr. Taylor's and 

 Mr. Crowe's prize ewes are extraordinary beauties; Mr. 

 Simpson's have especially grand rumps ; but the rest of 

 thia rather small class are far from possessing the exrel- 

 lence looked for in show sheep. Some of the " shear- 

 ling wethers" are still worse; one lot being very poor 

 and leggy ; but Mr. Jordan's, Mr. Marshall's, and Mr. 

 Boast's arc good. In several pens the " shearling 

 gimmers" were badly formed, and in poor condition ; 

 Mr. Abraham's, Mr. Wiley's, Mr. Simpson's, and some 

 others were very pretty, beautifully .symmetiical, and 

 with first-class quality of meat. Mr. Handy's and Mr. 

 Eddison's Cotswolds are good ; but this class had very 



few entries. Among tbe extra stock sheep, Mr. Hall's 

 three-shear ewe is a very fine animal, and ^Ir. Ferrand's 

 cross-bred horned and mountain sheep formed a notice- 

 able feature. 



There was a very good show of pigs. The " large 

 breed'' boars were few in number, but were certainly of 

 extraordinai-y dimensions. Mr. Barker's " Young 

 Prince," which failed to get a prize at Chester, has taken 

 the first prize ; he weighs, it is supposed, 75 stones im- 

 perial, but his quality is not so good as that of Mr. 

 Harrison's Chester boar ; his age is five years. No 

 second prize was awarded in this class, the animals not 

 being considered to be purely of large breed. The 

 large. breed sows very properly received a "general 

 commendation." Mr. Wainman's has a most enormous 

 frame, and is well formed ; Mr. Barker's " Lady Have- 

 lock" is no less extraordinary. Several of the small- 

 breed boars are of most beautiful proportion and quality ; 

 and the small -breed sows are almost all of them very 

 superior animals. Mr. Mangles took the first prize in 

 this class, which was " generally commended ;" and he 

 showed another sow nearly as good. Colonel Towne- 

 ley's is very deeply formed, and fat. The sows " of any 

 breed" are a most extraordinary class ; Mr. Wilkinson's 

 "'Queen Anne," and Mr. Barroby's sow bting splendid 

 in symmetry ^nd feeding quality. The class of " store- 

 pigs" is particularly good, Mr. Wiley's being a marvel- 

 lously fine lot. "The large-breed boars, " under 12 

 months old," were an unlevel show, though some of 

 them very commendable ; and several animals in this 

 class were pronounced doubtful as to purity of breed. 

 Ther large-breed sows, " under 12 months old," were 

 much better. The small- breed boars and sows, under 

 12 months old, were both " generally commended," and 

 were in most cases wonderfully forward and developed. 



The poultry show was more than usuallj' excellent 

 for the time of year ; but it is remarkable how the taste 

 for Cochins is on the wane. 



The Horse entries were 209, and upwards of 170 put in 

 an appearance. Instead of being exhibited in stalls, as at 

 the Royal Show, the four Stallion Classes have each a 

 portion of ground railed off", and show themselves there 

 till they are finally called before the judges in the ring. 

 Neither of Mr. Ridley's horses, Barnton or Hospitality, 

 came, but the other eleven all stood to their colours, 

 and there was no si>ia!l amount of betting as to whether 

 the Chester decision between Spencer and Canute would 

 be reversed. The youthful General Williams was not 

 a small favourite ; and so was Dr. Sangrado ; and 

 taking the class as a whole, it was far before Ches- 

 ter. Sir Harry Martin resembled his sire Lanercost not 

 a little in the head, but he was rather doubtful about 

 the loins, and small in the knee. Amalgamation failed 

 to catch any one point from William le Gros or The 

 Era ; and Bondholder, who was a true Flatcatcher, stood 

 over rather too much ground, and had excessively large 

 lop ears. General Williams had fine length and great 

 liberty about him, but he was ordinary in his head, and 

 his croup was not only plain, but his tail was badly set 

 on ; still, in a couple of years he will take a great deal 

 of beating. He is of Sir Tatton Sykes's blood on both 

 sides, and was trained last season by John Osborne. St. 

 Andrew had a light middle, and was also far too high on 

 the leg ; and Farnham was a little chesnut cocktail, with 

 all the varmint cut of the Ratcatchers about him, and 

 with a patch over his blind eye : his legs bore testimony 

 to long service, but you forgot those when you looked 

 at the little wiry chesnut fiame they bore. Mr. Stiggins 

 I okcd, as usual, the showy charger — nothing more ; 

 and if Dr. Sangrado had not been a little high and queer 

 on the. leg, there were few more perfect horses in the 

 yard. His barrel, neck, and head are beautifully turned, 

 and be reminded us not a little of what Kingston has 



