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Class 46. — First prize, a very grand pony, and true goer all round — the 
only thing against it is its colour; second prize, a well-known face, and 
wonderfully fresh for her age, but more suitable for harness than saddle, as 
she dwells too much in her action. There were other useful ponies in this 
class. 
Class 47. — First prize, a grand-shaped pony, with liberty of action, and a 
perfect miniature hunter in shape. This was a good class. 
George 0. Wombwell. 
Chkist. W. Wilson. 
CATTLE. 
A difference in the order of arrangement between the classes 
of horses and those of cattle would admit of an entirely different 
order of notice. The cattle, male and female, being classed 
consecutively under their breeds, and not, like the horses, classed 
according to sex and age, the same breeds appearing, disappear- 
ing, and re-appearing as the pages of the Catalogue are turned 
over, might be noticed under the heads of their breeds severally 
in the exact order of the Catalogue, without regard to the group 
assigned to each judicial triumvirate ; but, to avoid splitting 
one brief judicial Report into three parts, a compromise seems 
expedient, therefore in the following notes and comments the 
Shorthorn and Hereford cattle, each breed having three Judges 
for itself alone, take their Catalogue order of precedence, the 
Devons and Sussex follow ; but as the Red Polled cattle were 
judged by the same Judges who officiated in the Devon and 
Sussex Classes, the Polls are taken up from a later part of the 
Catalogue and placed immediately after the Sussex Classes. As 
these Judges, however, have sent in three separate Reports, we 
are enabled to glance at the breeds under separate headings. 
The Judges of Longhorn, Welsh and Dairy Cattle have sup- 
plied only one Report. For this reason, and the Report being 
too short to divide, one heading stands for these classes ; and 
the Jerseys, which precede the Dairy Cattle in the order of the 
Catalogue, are, by the accident of circumstances, and not from 
any want of respect for their merits, left to the last. Whatever 
place they occupied, they would make that the post of honour, 
or otherwise, according to their merits. Upon this occasion 
they certainly added to the credit of a very good Show. 
Shorthorns. 
Viewed in comparison with other breeds upon the same 
ground, the Shorthorn was creditably represented at Shrews- 
bury ; in comparison with the Shorthorn itself, as represented 
at some former Shows (but not, perhaps, with the average Short- 
horn of the " Royal " Shows of the last thirty years), it did not 
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