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much more than a "neck" to spare; she ran Mr. Thompson's 

 Inglewood Gem right closely at York for premier honours, and will 

 be heard of again in coming years. Then the two year olds 

 are brought forward, Georgina 5th, a wonderfully massive 

 heifer, and the biggest in her class at Newcastle, making with 

 Ranby Rose 2nd, another of the same substantial stamp, deep 

 before, well covered over the crops, and wide across the loins, the 

 pair exhibited during the past season, a credit to any breeder who 

 mated the sire and dams that produced them. Lady Lonsdale, of 

 the same family as Lady Craven, is of excellent quality, with a 

 wonderfully good front, and although not four till October has had 

 her second live calf, so even exhibiting and breeding apparently go 

 together when under good management. Georgina 4th own sister 

 to Georgina 5th although not shown this season, is quite in fit 

 order to enter the lists ; her shape is not so perfect as that of her 

 younger sister, as she is deficient in her hindquarters like several of 

 Grand Ruth's daughters, but the Booth blood introduced through 

 Wanderer appears likely to effect an improvement in this respect. 

 Lady Ottoline, a ladylike lengthy light roan, is as already mentioned 

 not the equal of Queen of the Cressidas 3rd. With Elvina, a 

 handsome large red and white the second prize heifer at the York 

 Royal, where she met with an accident to her hocks when shunting 

 on her return journey and her promising little calf by Sir Gerald, 

 we conclude the female portion of the herd. Grand Ruth 43469, 

 bought at Bingley Hall in 1882 when highly commended in a large 

 class, has been successful not only as a sire, but in the show yards, 

 where he was placed second at York in 1883, and only last autumn 

 he managed to separate Mr. Handley's two bulls at Sheffield. Many 

 breeders have admired the fine handsome white, and now his son, 

 Sir Gerald, out of Georgina 3rd, will come in for a share of the 

 admiration bestowed on his sire, although the latter is still at 

 Newlands, but the work of maintaining the credit of the stock 

 sires during the present season has been left to his son, who from 

 gradually rising from third place at the Yorkshire in 1885, to 

 second at their next meeting, has now advanced to not only the 



