194 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



third time he had occupied the same position at the 

 Royal show, Stow having been once put above him; 

 but they now changed places. 



In the three-year-old class Her Majesty the 

 Queen by common consent deservedly won first with 

 Prince Albert Edward (3540), a son of Deception 

 by Sir Benjamin, remarkably good over chine, top 

 and shoulders, with nice style, character and qual- 

 ity, and afterwards sold to go to Australia. The 

 winning bull in the under-two-year class was Mr. 

 Philip Turner's Trojan, by Franky, Walford's son 

 from Exquisite by Sir David, a very level nice qual- 

 ity bull and like the winner in the preceding class 

 sold to go to Australia. 



In the cow class one of the neatest, prettiest cows 

 ever shown took first prize. This was Thomas 

 Rogers' Silk. With a coat certainly like silk, she 

 was the smallest cow in the class, quite in contrast 

 with the previous year's winner, Queen of the Lil- 

 ies, but in the general opinion equally as well en- 

 titled to premier position now. She had splendid 

 quality, was level as a floor, and the other cows 

 looked altogether plain by comparison. In three- 

 year-olds the beautiful heifer from Adf orton, Silver 

 Star, won her third first prize at the Royal. She 

 had previously been first at Leicester and Manches- 

 ter, at two Bath and West of England meetings, at 

 Southampton, and at Taunton, and she had won 

 Lord Tredegar's cup at Newport. The late Mr. 

 Housman, who was a well recognized authority on 

 prize animals of this and a later period, called her 



