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the wealthy bosom, grandly laid shoulders, straight under-lines, 
and nice bone of this heifer. She was, to be sure, low in the 
neck, rather high in the horns, and her head altogether was not 
quite to every Judge's taste. Lady Pigot's " Rosalba," of Mr. 
Joseph Stratton's breeding, is a good specimen of a Stratton 
Shorthorn, thick, compact, well-fleshed, nice in the head, and 
stylish on foot, with, however, a little bumpiness on the top of 
the hind-quarters ; she was fourth. Mr. Handley's Reserve 
heifer is a level white of his own breeding, somewhat high on the 
leg, but straight along the top, and likely to come out well. The 
commended heifer has a heavy carcass — too heavy, apparently, 
for her back. 
Yearlings were a larger and, all over, a better class. Six of 
the twenty-five entered failed to appear. Here the Judges did 
a plucky thing. The Earl of Ellesmere's very well brought out 
Towneley heifer, " The Lady," which was the champion female at 
Bath, was expected, by not a few, to carry the leading ticket in 
her class, and possibly something more. When hopes run high 
regarding the fate of any animal, it not unfrequently happens 
that disappointment follows ; so it did in this instance, for " The 
Lady " was sent to her stall with only a second ticket, and it ap- 
peared to many really good judges of a Shorthorn, this was about 
all that she deserved against such a well-formed truly grown heifer 
as Mr. Marsh's roan of his own breeding. Her symmetry at 
once arrested the eye, and she was not long in the ring when the 
probability of her imperilling " The Lady's " chance of the red 
ticket was eagerly discussed by several breeders looking on. She 
has delightfully laid finely covered shoulders, is exceedingly 
well filled round the girth, good along the back, nice in the 
hind-quarters, with a head and neck in keeping with the body. 
The Judges ultimately put her first. "The Lady" has indeed 
a grand middle, magnificently covered with richly handling 
flesh and soft hair, while her shoulders and chine are wonder- 
fully good. Her head, however, is not so feminine-looking as 
it might be, her neck is too short and so are her hind-quarters. 
She beat the first one in middle and wealth of flesh, but the 
latter is decidely superior at both ends — is, in short, a more 
" pointy " heifer, and, in a breeding-stock Showyard, won, I 
think, fairly enough. Mr. Bland's third heifer is a lengthy light 
roan, daughter of a Waterloo bull. She has deep good quarters, 
rare quality, level covering over the crops and is thoroughly 
feminine about the head and neck. If her shoulders had been 
better laid in she would be a very heavy opponent in any yard. 
Mr. St. John Ackers's " Second Lady Carew," a daughter of 
" County Member," made a good fourth. Length and quality are 
displayed by her, and so, unfortunately, is patchiness at the tail- 
