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they held me up to watch for the verdict. When I 

 said Ashford had won, Mr. Price said, 'I cannot 

 believe it, it cannot be right/ for he was a bad 

 loser. But after thinking a minute he came and 

 shook my father 's hand, saying, ' If I am to be beat- 

 en, I would rather you did it than any other man. 

 We shall see how it is at Hereford next week.' 

 There it was confirmed." 



In the cow class at Lincoln, Monkhouse won first 

 with the famous Winnifred, and Lord Berwick was 

 again first and Philip Turner second in the in-calf 

 heifer class. 



Carlisle, Chelmsford and Salisbury. The Eoyal 

 of 1855 at Carlisle gave Lord Berwick another 

 first prize winner in the aged bull class in Atting- 

 ham (911), a fine good-looking son of Walford 

 (871), that afterwards did first-class service as a 

 sire. The second prize in this class the Earl of 

 Radnor won with Carlisle (923). Speaking of these 

 two bulls the steward of the Eoyal society in his 

 report bestowed unstinted and probably excessive 

 praise, saying: " Taking into consideration 

 weight, quality, symmetry and early maturity these 

 are the best animals ever shown." Lord Berwick 

 also won first, and John Monkhouse second, in two- 

 year-old bulls. Winnifred, the great Monaughty- 

 bred cow now ten years and seven months old, the 

 Gloucester winner, was again first. 



The Chelmsford Eoyal in 1856 developed a 

 double-bred Eoyal winner as prize-taker, for Lord 

 Berwick in Napoleon 3d, the son of the two Eoyal 

 firsts at Windsor Walford and Duchess of Nor- 



