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Tlio Cheviot classes, which had no entries from Koss and 
Suthcrhindshire, v/ere not very numerous, but pretty good as a 
whole. Mr. Thomas Brydon's first prize old ram was a very 
superior one, and well deserved his honours, and so did Mr. 
Borthwick's first pen of ewes. 
In the Clydesdale classes the show of stallions was not 
numerous, as mayy of them had not finished their season. 
The judges report that the Duke of Hamilton's "Sir Walter 
Scott" and Mr. William Kerr's "Champion," the first and 
second in Class I. ; Mr. Stirling's " Nancy," the Duke of 
Hamilton's " Princess Maud," and Mr. Stirling's " Jess," the 
first, second, and third in Class IV. ; and Mr. Findlay's " Bessie 
Bell " and " Mary Gray," the first and second in Class V., were 
first-class specimens and all of good symmetry. Of " Sir Walter 
Scott," ' Nancy," and " Princess Maud," they remark that they 
had "great style in action," but that "Jess" had "bad action 
with her forelegs." Mr. Kerr's mare " Rosie," which took the 
first prize in Class III., is noticed as " good through the heart 
and round the loins for a mare out of condition, and the bone 
and hair on the legs good." Another judge thus speaks to the 
merits of the classes : — 
" Aged Clydesdales were siaperior, particularly the first prize horse ; the 
three winners of prizes in Class I. were what 1 should term extra speci- 
mens of the Clydesdale horse, but the unsuccessful entries were not good. 
In Class II. for entire colts, Mr. Mowbray's first prize colt was good at the 
age, but all the others were below the average, and in many respects inferior. 
The mares with foals at their foot in Class III. were fair specimens of the 
breed, but mares in foal, Class IV., quite surpassed them as a whole, and 
were, in my opinion, the best class of all the Clydesdales at Battersea ; the 
first and second fillies in Class V. were also superior, and all in this class 
rather above the average." 
To show the strength of Class V. it may be mentioned that 
Mr, Stirling exhibited five mares in it, of which the only one 
that missed a prize or a commendation was the 12-year old 
" Snip," who, in Mr. Douglas of Athelstaneford's hands, has 
won first prizes at the Royal Agricultural and Highland Society's 
Meetings, and still looks as sound as ever di\ her legs. Among 
these five there was a considerable diversity of colour and type, 
and they varied in height from sixteen hands to sixteen three and 
a quarter. 
Cattle, 
Turning from theJForeign and Scottish to the English part of 
the Show, we find it opened by an array of 250 shorthorns, — 
138 males and 112 females. Perhaps there were not so many 
" plums " among thfem as at Leeds (where Captain Gunter's 
" Duchesses " were so pi'ominent), but the female classes con- 
