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pected in such company. Ladj Pigot's " Rosalba," a three-year- 
old red roan, of Mr.Richard Stratton's breeding, and fourth winner 
at Liverpool in 1877, had strong claims for higher honours in 
the estimation of an " all-round " sort of bench, being thick, 
massive, and, like all the Stratton Shorthorns, very well fleshed. 
At the tail, however, she is a little bumpy, and lacks the degree 
of Shorthorn character displayed by some of the other exhibits. 
With fourth place she had to be content. No exhibitor was 
permitted to take more than one prize in any class, so that her 
Ladyship's other cows — all more or less known to fame — had to 
be set aside when the destination of the fifth ticket was being 
settled. It fell to a fair two-year-old roan heifer, shown by Mr. 
J. B. Spence, Half-moon Street, Piccadilly. " Honourable 
Mention " was deservedly bestowed on Her Majesty the Queen's 
" Benedicta," by the recently deceased Warlaby sire, " Royal 
Benedict" (27,348); on Lady Pigot's " Zvezda," "Dainty 
Dame," and " V^ictoria Lucida ;" on Lord Bective's " Red Rose 
of Teviot," a two-year-old thickly-fleshed heifer of the rising 
tribe indicated bj- her name ; and on Mr. J. K. Fowler's " Grafin 
Foggathorpe 8th," from Prebendal Farm, Aylesbury. 
That the class of cows or heifers over two years was a good 
one may be readily inferred from the fact that it contained the 
third and fourth Royal winners of 1877, and the first and third 
Highland Society's prize-takers the same year. Lady Pigot's 
" Zvezda " was evidently past her bloom. Indeed, she has not 
been in good Showyard form since she suffered so severely from 
foot-and-mouth disease two years ago. Her grandly arched 
ribs, immense width of chest and splendid character were as at- 
tractive as ever, but her patchiness on the hind-quarters and un- 
evenness along the top would not " go down " with the foreign 
Jurors and she only got " Honourable Mention," though she was 
the first-prize Roval and Bath and West yearling in 1875, was 
sired by the late Mr. T. C. Booth's "King James " (28,971), 
and was considered the most valuable Shorthorn, so far as pedi- 
gree was concerned, in the Exhibition. This is not all ; she 
most unfortunately fell a victim to a second attack of foot-and- 
mouth disease, and died just at calving in the quarantine pre- 
mises at Brown's Wharf, London, in the first week of July. 
Her Ladyship's loss by the death of this precious cow was 
heavy, and occasioned much regret in Shorthorn quarters ; but it 
is not without its lessons. The career and early death of this 
very valuable animal should be instructive to the owners of 
cattle worth in the market " four figures." By subjecting such 
animals to the trying ordeal of preparation for a high place in 
the modern Showyard, unfortunately a very great risk is run. 
When she appeared for the first time in public at Croydon in 
