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land, of Apperley Court (need anything be said about the 
Strickland influence upon Shorthorn breeding in Gloucester- 
shire ?) ; Messrs. E. Lakin and Herbert (great in the adjoining 
county of Worcester) ; Holbech, of Farnborough, and Lovell, of 
Edgcott (Oxfordshire) ; Champion, Burgess and Frith (Notts) ; 
C. W. Harvey, of Walton ; Almond, of Orrell ; and Banner- 
man, of Chorley (Lancashire) ; Sir Charles Tempest and 
Messrs. Carruthers, of Arthington Hall, and J. D. Jefferson, of 
Thicket Priory (Yorks) ; together with others whose names 
have almost passed out of Shorthorn history, although they 
were prominent in that day. With such exhibitors the Short- 
horn show of nearly forty years ago could scarcely be far 
behind that of to-day ; and there are " old stagers " who would 
tell us, no doubt, that it was far better than anything this 
degenerate age can produce. Be it so ; let us see what this 
degenerate age has produced. 
First, we have a Class of five Bulls, one absent, two cer- 
tainly grand animals, but of the unfashionable white colour, 
so falsely associated with delicacy and tenderness, notwith- 
standing Nature's standing protest against the doctrine, by her 
persistent selection of that colour for the animals of the coldest 
regions. Mr. Foljambe's " Bright Helm," winner of first prizes 
at Reading and York, and Mr. Handley's " Hovingham," better 
known as Sir W. C. Worsley's, second at Derby and York, 
have both received high testimonials of merit in the Official 
Reports of the Shows at which they svere successfully exhibited, 
and a sort of prophetic intimation of " Hovingham's " unde- 
veloped power to " turn the tables " upon a rival who had 
beaten him, is justified now by his well-won victory over 
another rival who had been twice in the higher position, but 
not in the same class, with " Hovingham." They had, how- 
ever, met before they came into the ring at Shrewsbury, and 
Judges differed respecting their comparative deservings. The 
Shrewsbury Judges had probably a slight balance of outside 
opinion in favour of their decision when they awarded the first 
prize to " Hovingham ; " but the contest was extremely close, 
probably the closest in any of the Shorthorn Classes. 
A good bull is good for nothing if his stock are not good. 
" Bright Helm's " may have every desirable property, but a 
specimen of " Hovingham's," " Self-Esteem 2nd," the champion 
bull of last year, was on the spot, to prove his sire's worth, and 
in Class 49, five entries, was easily picked out as the rightful 
first-winner. With this exception, the class wanted high cha- 
racter, although " Duke of Cornwall," bred by his exhibitor, 
Mr. Tregaskis, but on both sides from Colonel Sir R. Loyd 
