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type from ihe others and were easy winners. They 

 were afterwards bought by Tom Clark for Mr. Earl. 



Garfield and Henrietta. At Eeading in 1882 Mr. 

 Platt's Horace 4th came to the front. He now had 

 great wealth of flesh and a nice touch. Lord Coven- 

 try 's Fisherman was second. He was a big one 

 weighing here over 2,600 pounds. Trafalgar, the 

 Derby winner, was third. In two-year-olds Aaron 

 Rogers 7 Archibald, that had been unplaced as a 

 yearling, headed the line. He had now that tre- 

 mendous development of forehand that afterwards 

 made him one of the wonders of his time. John 

 Price's Garfield, a bull of strong constitution and 

 substance, was first in the yearlings over Oarwar- 

 dine's Chippendale, and was bought by Mr. Clark 

 for Earl & Stuart, subsequently rising to fame in 

 America as a bull-getter. 



In the breeding cow class Mr. Taylor was first 

 with his Derby winner Modesty, by Tredegar. She 

 had a new-born calf with her, and well kept up her 

 previous year's prestige. The second prize winner, 

 Mermaid 2d, bred by Mr. Stephen Eobinson of Lyn- 

 hales, was a daughter of Eegulus (4076), a level 

 deep cow of great substance, but lacking the style 

 and character of the winner. In three-year-old 

 heifers Mr. Taylor again won first, this time with 

 the wonderfully level heifer Lorna Doone, by 

 Horace, her dam being by Mercury (3967), the sire 

 of Tredegar. Second went to Philip Turner's Sil- 

 via, a heifer of great substance, level, and with 

 first-rate character. It was merely a matter of 



