664 Report on the Exhibition of British and Foreign Sheep, 
• The following is the official Report of both judges of Goats : — 
British Goats. — The short-haired males formed a very good class, though 
but few were present. The best were two polled specimens of unusual merit, 
which at first received respectively first and second prizes, but were subse- 
quently, on a protest being lodged, disqualified through being hornless, and 
thus coming imder the restriction contained in the rules, which prohibited 
British goats without horns from competing. The first prize finally went 
to the reserve number, a well-shaped animal with good even back and great 
massiveness of frame ; and the second to a younger specimen, showing great 
promise, which had jireviously been highly commended. 
The short-haired females were equally well represented in point of quality. 
The chief winner was a coarsely built but remarkably large goat, with con- 
siderable depth of frame and wide hind-quarters, evincing great milking 
capabilities; being heavy la young, she was however not attractive to the 
eye. The second prize, on the contrary, was in high condition, with a short 
glossy coat, showing most beautiful symmetry and much quality of breed, 
but undersized and lacking the superior milking features of its rival. As the 
judging was perfoimed with a view to practical utility rather than for beauty 
of form and condition, this goat scored the lesser number of points. 
No. 2464 possessed a very large and well-shaped udder, with good teats which 
told of abundance of milk, but being by nature really long-haired — its 
temporary shortness of coat in certain jiarts being due to the new growth of 
hair which had not reached its full length, — this animal was only highly 
commended, and ought strictly to have been disqualified for wrong entry. The 
same fate might fairly have attended No. 2460, of Abyssinian origin, whose 
place was amongst the foreign breeds. 
In long-haired males the finest exhibit was a remarkably handsome Nor- 
wegian, which, not having any disqualification card against it, was ]jlaced 
first, but, a ])rotest being subsequently raised on the ground of its foreign 
blood, was afterwards disqualified, and the prize given to a massive animal 
with long straight back and flowing hair, a good specimen of its class, but 
with an ill-shaped head, and horns rather too coarse. 
The goat which gained highest honours in long-haired females had a 
good deep frame, well-rounded ribs, and a capacious udder, but through 
changing her coat, like many others, did not appear to advantage. 
Foreign Goats. — The males, although few in number, were a fine selection. 
The first-prize winner, of Hungarian breed, exhibited by Lady Burdett-Coutts, 
was certainly the largest he-goat that has ever appeared at any show. He 
was devoid of horns, and had a fine head with broad chest, level bnck, and 
well-sprung ribs, without being too long in the leg. He measured 34 inches 
in height at the shoulder, and 46 inches in girth. The second j rize was also 
an unusually fine animal, though standing two inches shorter than his rival ; 
powerfully built, with massive neck and chest, but narrow in his hind- 
quarters, and with tail set rather too low. 
Of the three females entered in the foreign division only one appeared, and 
as this was shockingly out of condition, though showing some good points as 
a milker, a second prize only was awarded. 
We feel it necessary, in conclusion, to call attention to the restriction 
previously alluded to against Bi'itish goats without horns, by which man}' 
good animals were [)robibited from competition, and the entries rendered less 
numerous than they would otherwise have been. The restriction was the 
more to be regretted because it frustrated to a great extent the principal 
object of the Society in offering the prizes, as hornless goals are generally 
admitted by fanciers to be for practical purposes the best, and therefore most 
suited to improve the breeds generally of these islands. This fact has been 
