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rich in the blood of Sir David and proved a good 

 sire. His dam was Spinster, by Sir Thomas. The 

 second prize bull in this class was Provost, a very 

 good son of Bachelor only a week and two days too 

 old for the younger class. He was full of quality 

 with style and character. In the bull calf class 

 Thomas Fenn's Cap Hall, by Severus 2d, was placed 

 first and Eegulus (4076) from Adforton, a son of 

 Sir Eoger (4133), sire of Lord Wilton and son of 

 Sir Thomas, was placed second, but the general 

 opinion was that this should have been reversed. 

 Eegulus was destined to attain much renown. 



In the cow class at Cardiff Ivington Eose was 

 again placed first, as she had been at Wolverhampton 

 the year before. She was a grand show cow, long 

 and level, with splendid color and character, quite 

 like Sir Thomas in type. The second prize cow Silk 

 2d, a neat one, royally bred, was by Battenhall, prize- 

 winning son of Sir Thomas, and her dam, Silk, was 

 first at the Oxford Eoyal. In three-year-old heifers 

 Mr. W. Thomas won first with Sunflower, a fine styl- 

 ish good-looking heifer properly put above Turner's 

 Plum. Mr. Thomas was third also with another good 

 one in a strong class. In two-year-olds Thomas again 

 won first prize with Eosalind, by Sir John 3d, the 

 sire of his two previously winning heifers also. This 

 heifer had been placed below the second and third 

 at Wolverhampton, but now very fairly beat them. 

 In heifer calves Mr. Turner's Euby, a daughter of 

 Bachelor, deservedly won first. 



Cardiff was the fourth successive meeting of the 



