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year-old at Liverpool, and now at Bristol was win- 

 ner in the aged class. At the Bath and West of 

 England meeting a month before he had to take 

 second place to Aaron Rogers' Grateful, which not 

 only won first in his class but the championship also, 

 as best bull of all breeds, defeating the great Short- 

 horn champion Sir Arthur Ingram. Thoughtful, 

 through his grandsire Jupiter, was a grandson of 

 Walford, and on his dam's side, through Sir Frank 

 and Sir Thomas, he was the grandson of Sir David, 

 so that he carries the blood of perhaps the two 

 greatest sires of the breed in his veins. Horace 2d 

 had again to take second place to Thoughtful, as 

 at Bath the year before. He had not the great 

 length and substance of the winner, but was a thick 

 wide good bull. 



In yearling bulls the Liverpool winner had to give 

 way to John Price's Arthur, son of Horace 2d. He 

 was a heavy-fleshed deep young bull, with a curly 

 coat and a mellow thick hide, and a touch that all 

 breeders liked. Anxiety, the beautiful Helena's son, 

 had the same nice touch, but he had not at this time 

 the same bloom about him that he had at Liverpool, 

 so he must be content with second place. In bull 

 calves Arkwright's Conjuror, by Concord, his dam 

 from the Ivington Lass family at Hampton Court, 

 a straight nice lengthy bull with true Hereford char- 

 acter, carried the first prize, second going to Stock- 

 tonbury on Lord Oxford, son of Longhorns. Third 

 fell to Wintercott for Eoyalist's son, Master But- 

 terfly, out of Winter De Cote. The reserve num-. 



