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and notably of late years upon tlie American continent. It has, 
pure and by its crosses, repeatedly won the Championship of the 
Smithfield Club, and in international competition it has taken 
the highest honours, notably the two Champion Prizes of lOOL 
each at Paris, in 1878, for the best group of cattle foreign to 
France, and for the best group of beef cattle in the Show, both 
awarded to Mr. M'Combie's group by large juries of mixed 
nationalities. 
At the English national and international Shows the breed 
has competed very creditably indeed in the miscellaneous Classes 
and in special Classes. The first of the Royal Shows at which 
special Classes for Scotch Polled cattle were introduced was the 
Windsor Show of 1851. The specification was wide enough to 
admit the Galloways, but the Aberdeen-Angus cattle carried all 
before them, Mr. M'Combie's winning three out of the four prizes 
awarded. The First was for a bull bred by Mr. Hugh Watson, 
of whom Mr. M'Combie himself wrote {Cattle and Cattle Breeders, 
Blackwoods, 18G7), in his list of distinguished breeders, " Among 
these the late Hugh Watson, Keillor, deserves to be put in the 
front rank. No breeder of the Polled Aberdeen and Angus will 
grudge that well-merited honour to his memory. We all look 
up to him as the first great improver, and no one will question 
his title to this distinction. There is no herd in the country 
which is not indebted to the Keillor blood." Mr. M'Combie's 
other winners at Windsor in that year were two heifers bred by 
himself; and the prize for the best cow also was adjudged to 
one bred at Tillyfour, but exhibited by Mr. Robert Scott of Bal- 
wyllo, Montrose. Such were the results of the first recognition 
of Scotch Polled breeds in the Society's prize-list. 
The next place where those breeds had special Classes was at 
Carlisle, in 1855, when the specification was altered to " Angus 
and other Polled," and the results were, in each Class : Mr. 
M'Combie first, the rest nowhere. The First Prize bull was 
" Hanton," bred by Mr. Alexander Bowie, of Mains of Kelly. 
" To him," wrote Mr. M'Combie, "I am indebted for ' Hanton,' 
who, with ' Angus ' and ' Panmure ' in the male line, were my 
' herd's fortunes.' " 
Seven years passed before the Classes were again included, 
and the occasion was that of the Battersea International 
Meeting in 1862, when the Highland and Agricultural Society 
of Scotland, suspending their own annual meeting, gave the 
prizes for the four Scotch breeds. Those for the breed 
now engaging our attention were offered under the specifi- 
cation "Polled Aberdeen and Angus," in six Classes — three 
Classes of males and three of females. The bulls on the whole 
