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the back. Mr. David Pugh's third prize, commended last year 
at Bristol, was well-filled behind the shoulders, and had grand 
crops, with, however, a slight want behind them ; her hair was 
rich and plentiful, but her touch might have been improved. 
The same breeder had another exhibit in his " Czarina 12th," 
which, though not mentioned by the Judges, was well entitled 
to that distinction. She had a particularly good twist and big 
loins. Mr. Brassey's fourth prize was a large-framed heifer, as 
wanting in style and quality as in good manners to visitors ! 
She also showed some patchiness in the rumps. Her Majesty 
the Queen took the " reserve " ticket in this class; while Mr. 
Kingley's pair, not noticed, had a great deal to recommend 
them. Mr. Garne also showed a rare good one in " Portrait 
12th." No one need desire to see a firmer better loin, 
nor richer hair and quality. Mr. Benjamin St. John Ackers's 
heifer was discarded by the Judges on account of her dark 
nose, although in form and style and quality she has few 
equals. 
Class 63. Yearling Heifers. — This was one of the best of 
the Shorthorn Classes, and had the additional credit of furnish- 
ing the champion female in Mr. T. H. Hutchinson's magnificent 
heifer " Gainful," 1 year and 8 months old, sired by " King 
Alfonso " (36,832), and from the same breeder's fine cow 
" Grateful," the first in her class, and already noticed under 
Class 61. Here, as in the Aged Bull Class, there was much 
disputation as to the correctness of the award, very many com- 
petent judges preferring Lord Fitzhardinge's second prize to 
the Catterick champion. Much of this wrangling, however, 
was traceable more to the " Booth-versus-Bates " feeling than 
to the actual merits of the two animals, as a close analysis of 
their respective points showed. The ribs and back of the 
Yorkshire heifer form a perfect circle ; she is good all along 
the top ; her hind-quarters are very long and well-filled ; twist 
excellent ; bone fine ; head good ; neck-vein very large, and her 
hair is like silk. Barring a slight want above the hock, and a 
little flatness behind the shoulder-blade, it would be difficult to 
improve her. Of course she was shown in the very pink of 
condition, as the Catterick stock always are. 
The second-prize heifer, on the other hand, is said to have 
" gone off " since last year, when she stood first as a calf at the 
Bristol Royal. At Kilburn she looked too prominent in the 
hips, with rumps slightly overhanging. Her hair, however, is 
of the richest, and her touch delightfully mellow, while her 
breast and shoulders and general outlook are perfect ; her head, 
too, is sweet, and her eye prominent. The third-prize heifer, 
