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Park, given by Mr. ^Iclntosh. These she has won now three 
years in succession, and they can no longer be wrested out of 
the Rev. R. B. Kennard s hands. If there were more " Queen 
Maries," it is to be presumed challenge-cups would get very 
scarce indeed ; but her Showyard career has now terminated, 
and all lovers of Shorthorns will readily join in the hope that she 
may excel in fertility of breeding, so that the Marnhull herd may 
be enriched with daughters from so superb a dam, and as beautiful 
AS herself. Her two half-sisters, "Blossom 2nd" and " Olga," 
who won first and second prizes in the two-year-old heifer class, 
are deemed almost her equal now, and have run a splendid career 
of success with her throughout the present season. At one or 
two Shows the white has been preferred to the roan ; but the 
verdict of the Royal seems the right one, and has been endorsed 
in the greater number of cases. " Olga " is much the finer heifer 
of the two, and possesses a truly grand frame ; but *' Blossom 2nd" 
excels in neatness, quality, and comely shape, promising to 
develop into a cow not at all unlikely to take " Queen Mary's" 
place and retain it. 
This two-year-old female class was termed by the Judges " the 
best in our department." It included a large number, and they 
were sufficiently meritorious to have furnished a second set of good 
prize-takers in addition to the splendid quartette favoured by the 
Judges. Lady Pigot s " Flatterer," the third-prize heifer, seems 
a wealthy good animal, although not quite faultless ; and well- 
I nigh the same description would serve for Mr. Lamb s " Laures- 
tina 3rd." Sir G. W. Armstrong's " 3rd Oxford's Welfare," who 
took the Reserve, being sweet and pretty-styled ; and a still 
more showy animal, w horn the Judges " highly commended," 
Mr. Hutton's " Melpomene 3rd " having high merit ; neither they 
nor the commended heifers, Mr. T. H. Miller's " Ringlet 5th " 
and Mr. O. V iveash's " Numidia," would have been unworthy 
of prizes had those placed before them by the Judges been 
absent. 
With eight such heifers in a class, no wonder the Judges appre- 
f elated it so highly : but the vearling heifers were not far behind 
the others in merit, and w ere brought to the ring in greater num- 
bers. Two admirably shaped, lovely animals, came in front. 
Both seemed very good, and when they appeared in the ring out- 
siders were well-nigh equally divided in weighing their respective 
rlaims. These were Lady Pigot's " Imperious Queen " and Mr. 
Mcintosh's "Charmer 24th." The Judges decided the knotty 
point by placing them in the order just mentioned, by which the 
latter holds the same position which was awarded her as a calf 
at Taunton, while the former rises from being third to the chief 
position. But probably no animal has improved so much in a 
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