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ribs spring very well, and are well covered with flesh of fine 
quality ; her chest is deep, and brisket great, quarters fair, but 
shoulders rather hard. She is principally of Booth blood, and 
was admirably brought out, yet she won only by " a neck.' 
Her triumphs for the day did not end here, as will bv-and-by be 
seen. Mr. Atkinson's " Moonshine" is a big useful cow, well 
covered over the chine. Still, she is deficient below, particularly 
towards the hind-quarters. Mr. R. Bruce's " Royal Rose," of 
Mr. Downing's breeding, which was highly commended, is fully 
as likeable a cow as " Moonshine," being nice on the shoulders, 
with a feminine head and neck and good underline. Mr. 
Graham's massive substantial-looking red cow, also highly 
commended, was one of the " Lauristinas" which sold well at 
Mr. Lamb's sale near Penrith last spring. A commended 
ticket was also well merited by the thick, fleshy, red cow from 
Auchnagathle, Aberdeenshire, bred at Sittyton, which was first 
at the Highland Show at Aberdeen in 1876. Over the fore-ribs 
and crops she is admirably covered. Her defects in the hind- 
quarters, however, were even more visible in the Royal yard 
than at the Scotch Show, where, by the way, she was lucky. 
Among a few ticketless cows, I noticed the Messrs. Dudding's 
" Blooming Bride," now owned by the Stand Stud Company. 
She has been a prize-taker repeatedly at the Royal, having 
been, for instance, third last year ; she is very lengthy and big, 
though getting patchy, and is less blooming than I have before 
seen her. 
With two-year-old heifers there was less difficulty. Lady 
Pigot's " Imperious Queen," which was the crack English Show- 
yard Shorthorn of 1876, has not gone on quite satisfactorily. 
Her calf, or something else, has shaken her considerably. Never- 
theless, the exceptionally fine quality both of flesh and hair still 
abides by her, and her shoulders are well laid. On the other 
hand, her tail has somehow got to lie on or in badly, and her 
horns are too strong for most tastes. All things considered, she 
obtained — so far as the onlookers were concerned — the first ticket 
with a grudge. Mr. Hutchinson's " Grateful," a big, wide, 
roomy, lengthy, wealthy heifer, granddaughter of the famous 
" Knight of the Shire," and great-granddaughter of " Vain 
Hope " (23,102), had very strong claims to the first place ; she 
is very well bred and is all over like her breeding, notwithstand- 
ing a tendency to bumpiness at the tail. The finest Shorthorn 
body in the yard was that of Mr. Angus's third-prize two-year- 
old roan, daughter of " Ben Brace " (30,524), a bull of Mr. 
Meadow's breeding. Scarcely anything of the kind could be 
prettier than the deep, finely filled hind-quarters, the true " rib- 
bing up and home," the level coating of flesh over the crops, 
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